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About the Contributors
is also a core partner of the PALETTE European integrated project (http://palette.ercim.org/) in charge
of investigating innovative Web 2.0 social software to support collaborative learning and of the new
STELLAR Network of Excellence on Technology Enhanced Learning.
George Gkotsis is a PhD student at the Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics Department, University
of Patras. He works as a research collaborator at the E-learning Sector of the Research Academic
Computer Technology Institute, Patras, Greece. He holds a M.Sc. from the Computer Engineering and
Informatics Department, University of Patras (2005), where he got his Diploma (2002). His research
interests are on collaboration, argumentation systems, knowledge management and visualization, Web
engineering and hypertext.
Evelyn Gullett previously taught at the Department of Business and Technology, Webster University,
St. Louis, Missouri in the U.S. She combines her teaching experience with more than 23 years of
international work experience in areas such as human resources management and recruitment, training
and development, account management, sales and customer service support, marketing, research analysis,
strategic planning, project management and consulting. Her research interests include e-learning,
organisational behaviour, change and development, work relationships, leadership application, coaching,
cultural diversity, training and development as well as qualitative research. Dr. Gullett has worked on
projects in various industries ranging from international hotel and tourism management, airline services,
retail, call centers, hospital administration, education and the federal government. Dr. Gullett received
her PhD in Human and Organizational Systems, a business behavioural science degree, from The Fielding
Graduate University, Santa Barbara, California. She holds an MA in Organizational Development
and earned her MBA with a concentration in Human Resource Management (focus on M&A) and BA
in Human Resource Development from Hawaii Pacific University.
Thanasis Hadzilacos, 55, is a professor of Information Systems at the Open University of Cyprus
where he directs the graduate program in Information Systems. Until September 2007 he was Dean
of Science and Technology at the Hellenic Open University where he served as associate professor of
software engineering, directed the Open and Distance Laboratory for Educational Material and Educational
Methodology, the graduate course on Information Systems and the undergraduate Computer
Science course. Educated at Harvard, USA, he had substantial industrial experience before joining
Computer Technology Institute in 1986, where he continues as a researcher with the responsibility of the
Educational Technology and the e-Learning Sectors and R&D Unit III “Applied Information Systems”.
During 1996-2001 he designed and managed the Greek national project “Odysseia” for the utilization
of Information and Communication Technologies in secondary education. He has served as a member
of the Council of Europe working group for Teaching and Learning in the Communication Society and
the Greek national representative to E.U. DG Education and Culture for building the European portal
on educational opportunities.
Nory B. Jones (PhD), is an associate professor of Management Information Systems and Director of
Graduate Programs at the University of Maine Business School. She received her PhD in Information
Systems from the University of Missouri-Columbia. Her research interests include knowledge management,
collaborative technologies, and organizational learning.