Session Title: The business of e-learning (contracting & development) by Stephen Gilbert.

Founder and CEO of Clearsighted, Ames , Iowa.

Stephen B. Gilbert brings rich experience from the for-profit education industry and the fields of human-computer interaction and instructional design to any educational project. He has worked closely with software developers and instructional designers to define features of online authoring tools and learning content management systems (LCMS) that promote extensive reuse of content. He has also supervised the creation of the templates and standards used online to promote consistent, high-quality instruction. Collaborating with faculty at University of Chicago, Columbia, and elsewhere, he has led the design of award-winning online business courses.

Dr. Gilbert received his B.S.E. from Princeton University in civil engineering, focusing on human-computer interaction, and his Ph.D. from MIT in brain and cognitive sciences.

As a researcher at MIT, he helped design and teach a variety of courses at the MIT Media Lab, as well as evaluate the Sloan Business School's distance MBA degree program (SDM). He is currently a collaborator at Iowa State University's Center for Technology in Learning and Teaching (CTLT) and a lecturer in the psychology department working in the VRAC and with the HCI graduate program.