Ali Jafari (jafari@iupui) has worked in the fields of Information Technology
and Multimedia since 1985 as a software designer, system engineer, technology
architect, professor and researcher. He has worked in various engineering,
administrative and academic positions at the Indiana University Bloomington
and IUPUI campuses. He is currently Director of the IUPUI CyberLab and
Professor of Computer Technology in the School of Engineering and Technology
at IUPUI. Dr. Jafari has presented at more than 100 national and international
conferences and published in professional and scholarly journals on a variety
of subjects in information technology as it relates to teaching and learning. Dr.
Jafari’s research interests include interface design, agent-based learning
environments, intelligent user interfaces and most recently Internet portals. Dr.
Jafari has initiated, directed and co-developed several major research and
development projects including the Interactive Multimedia Distribution System
(1997), the Oncourse enterprise course management system (1999) and the
Angel e-Learning Portal (2000). Professor Jafari’s new research and
development project is electronic portfolios, a new teaching and learning portal
environment to be built by a consortium of higher education institutions. For this
purpose he has initiated and established the ePort Consortium
(ePortConsortium.org).