Research Interests

Gord has been involved in artificial intelligence (AI) research for over 25 years, with a primary focus in two main areas: artificial intelligence in education and user modelling. He has also experimentally investigated basic issues in student modelling, instructional planning, and tutorial dialogue. He is currently working on systems that support peer collaboration, reverse engineering, AI-based second language learning, intelligent information filtering/retrieval, an ethics simulation environment, and a personal preference system in the movie domain. Much of this work is characterized by the goal of capturing relevant user information and using it to individualize the system's interaction with each of its users.

Recent Keynote and Research Update

Please see Gord's slides from his recent keynote at the SWEL (Semantic Web in ELearning) Workshop at the AIED Conference in Brighton, England on July 7th, 2009. PPT PDF

Selected Papers

2007

• S. Bateman, C. Brooks, G. McCalla, P. Brusilovsky. (2007) Applying Collaborative Tagging to E-Learning In the Proceedings of the Workshop on Tagging and Metadata for Social Information Organization, held in conjuction with the 16th International World Wide Web Conference. Banff, Canada, May 7, 2007. 7 pages.

2006

• S. Bateman, R. Farzan, P. Brusilovsky, G. McCalla. (2006) OATS: The Open Annotation and Tagging System. In the Proceedings of the Third Annual International Scientific Conference of the Learning Object Repository Research Network, Montreal, November 8-10, 2006. 10 pages.
• S. Bateman, C. Brooks, G. McCalla. (2006) Collaborative Tagging Approaches for Ontological Metadata in Adaptive ELearning Systems. In the Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Applications of Semantic Web Technologies for E-Learning (SW-EL 2006) in conjunction with 2006 International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems (AH2006), June 20, 2006. Dublin, Ireland. pp. 3-12.
• J. Jovanovic, D. Gasevic, C. Brooks, C. Knight, G. Richards, G. McCalla. (2006) Ontologies to Support Learning Design Context . 1st European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2006), October 1-4, 2006. Crete, Greece.
• C. Brooks, S. Bateman, W. Liu, G. McCalla, J. Greer, D. Gasevic, T. Eap, G. Richards, K. Hammouda, S. Shehata, M. Kamel, F. Karray, J. Jovanovic. (2006) Issues and Directions with Educational Metadata. In the Proceedings of the Third Annual International Scientific Conference of the Learning Object Repository Research Network, Montreal, November 8-10, 2006. 10 pages.
• C. Brooks, S. Bateman, G. McCalla, J. Greer. (2006) Applying the Agent Metaphor to Learning Content Management Systems and Learning Object Repositories. In the Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS2006), June 26 - June 30, 2006. Jhongli, Taiwan. pp. 808-810.