Morgan, Konrad

Dean of the School of Applied Media and Information Technology
Northern Alberta Institute of Technology

Research Interests:

Konrad Morgan PhD(Edin.), MBCS, MBPsS, CITP, is Dean of the School of Applied Media and Information Technology at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology. Prior to this current appointment he was a full professor at Bergen University in Norway and Director of the InterMedia lab, Norway’s leading Educational Technology and New Media research centre. He has also held leadership roles at major academic institutions in the UK, Middle East and South Pacific (within a UN educational aid project). Konrad completed his first doctorate in 1989 at Edinburgh University, Scotland and he was awarded his Full Professor competence examination (minimum of 2 PhDs in depth of subject specialization as assessed by a committee of senior academics from the USA, UK, Scandinavia and Russia) by Bergen University in 2000.

Recent major externally funded research projects include

* EU Project – “B-Learn” (Blended Learning in Traditional Universities – 2006 to 2008)
* EU Project - "MASSIVE" (Developing Support Models for Virtual Components in Traditional Universities – 2005 to 2007)
* EU Project – Leading the Ethics and Equity Task Force in the Kaleidoscope European Network of Excellence

(2004 to 2007)
* Norwegian Department of Education – “Design and implementation of Norwegian national compulsory online testing of all K-12 students” (2003 to 2007)
* Norwegian Research Council - "Local knowledges in global communications" (2004 to 2008)
* Norwegian National Criminal Intelligence Agency - "ICT to aid criminal intelligence analysis" (1999 to 2009)

Featured Publications:

Morgan, K (2009) “ELearning Challenges: Issues for Educators” Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Western Decision Sciences Institute, April 7-11, 2009.

Morgan, K (2008) “Challenges and Opportunities facing IT Education” Invited keynote panel. ICE 2008 Canadian Information Processing Society, Annual Conference, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. November 2008.

Morgan, K (2008) “Ethical Issues in Digital Information Technology” Chapter in Hansson, T. (Ed.) Handbook of Research on Digital Information Technologies. IGI Global, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

Morgan, K (2007) “Personality and Individual Differences” Chapter in Andrews, R. and Haythornthwaite, C. (Eds.) Sage Handbook of E-Learning. Sage Press, London, U.K.

Morgan, K. (2005) ´The Impact of Digital Technology on Human Cognition (Interview)´ RTD Info: Research Magazine of the European Union, April: 40-43.