Alfred Bork is Professor Emeritus of Information and Computer Science
and Physics, at the University of California, Irvine. He is founder
and Director of the Educational Technology Center, for research and
development of technology-based learning material. He is Vice President
of A Bork Endeavors.
Alfred Bork has worked in this area for forty years, at the University of Alaska, at Reed College and at Harvard University. He worked on the Project Physics course at Harvard.
In 1975 Bork was a consultant to United Kingdom National Development Programme in Computer Aided Learning. He served four years as chair of the Special Interest Group on Computer Uses in Education of the Association for Computing Machinery. He was Physics Series Editor for CONDUIT.
He was a member of the National Institute of Education delegation to the People's Republic of China. He was codirector and keynote speaker at the NATO Advanced Study Institutes on Computers in Science Education, at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium, July 1976, and at the San Miniato Conference Center, Italy, 1985. He was the Millikan Award Lecturer for the American Association of Physics Teachers in summer 1978. He was a National Science Foundation Chautauqua Lecturer for five years. He won the Outstanding Computer Educator Award from AEDS in l985. He is an ADCIS Fellow. He has been on several occasions a Visiting Professor at the University of Geneva, in Switzerland. In 1997 he ran workshops for the Colombo Staff College in India and the Philippine. He is on the technical advisory committee for LearnLink, a USAID project. He was involved in policy studies about computers in education, including a study for the Norwegian government. He ran the first conference on intelligent videodisc systems. He was declared to be a Pioneer of Educational technology at NECC99. He is on the editorial boards of many journals.
The Educational Technology Center produces high quality, graphic, interactive, individualized, multimedia, learning modules. Bork has been personally involved in about 60 of the student-computer dialogs developed by the Center.
Products include The Scientific Reasoning Series and Understanding Spoken Japanese.
``Planning for the Future of Education,'' Technology and Learning, Vol. 1, No. 5, September/October 1987.
``Ethical Issues Associated with the Use of Interactive Technology in Learning Environments,'' Journal of Research on Computing in Education, Vol. 21, No. 2, Winter 1988.
``New Structures for Technology-Based Courses,'' Education and Computing, Vol. 4, 109--117, 1988
"The Irvine-Geneva Course Development System", with B.Ibrahim et al, in Aiken, R. (ed), Education and Society, Information Processing 92, Volume 2, Elsever.
"Why Has the Computer Failed in Schools and Universities," Journal of Science Education and Technology, Volume 4, No 2, 1995, pages 97-102.
"Distance Learning and Interaction:Toward a Virtual Learning Institution," Journal of Science Education and Technology, Volume 4, No 3, 1995, pages 227-244.
"Highly Interactive Multimedia Technology and Future Learning", Journal of Computing in Higher Education, Volume 8, 1996, Pages 1-26.
"Rebuilding Universities with Highly Interactive Multimedia Curricula," International Journal of Engineering Education, Vol 15, No 5, 1996.
"The Future of Computers and Learning," T.H.E. Journal, Volume 24 no 11. June 1997.
"An Interview With Alfred Bork", EDUCOM Review, July 1999.
He has been invited to write chapters in many books.
"Interaction: Lessons from Computer based Learning," In Laurillard, D. (Ed) Interactive Media: Working Methods and Practical Applications, Ellis Harwood, 1987.
"Applications," With David Walker and Andre Poly, In Educations and Informatics Worldwide, Jessica Kingsley/ UNESCO, 1992.
"Technology in Education: An Historical Perspective," Robert Muffoletto and Nancy Knupfer (Ed). In Computers in Education: Social Political, and Historical Perspectives, Hampton Press, 1993.
He has authored eight books.