Prof. Gord McCalla will be presenting a departmental seminar titled "Supporting Learning Naturally: The Ecological Approach" on 1 April 2011. In this seminar, Gord will outline a philosophy that has led to the development of a framework for supporting learning called the ecological approach that allows a system to naturally evolve and change as the learning context changes. The talk will present past and current experiments in building ecological systems, and will look forward to possible future applications including the creation of a lifelong learning companion.

Prof. Gord McCalla is a Professor of Computer Science and Director of the ARIES Laboratory at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada. This term, he is an Erskine Fellow, visiting the Intelligent Computer Tutoring Group and the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at the University of Canterbury.