STEPHEN B. GILBERT
March 17, 2008
Education
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology
Princeton University
Dissertation Title:
Brain & Cognitive Sciences
Ph.D. 1997
Civil Engineering & Operations Research B.S.E. 1992
Mapping mental spaces: How we organize perceptual and cognitive information
Experience
2007 -
Business & Education Liaison, Iowa State University's Virtual Reality Applications Center
and Human-Computer Interaction program. Conduct research part-time in HCI, teach;
build partnerships with relevant businesses.
2004 -
President, Clearsighted, Inc., an e-learning consultancy (www.clearsighted.net)
Advise clients on distance learning technologies and instructional design, conduct usability
Studies of software, currently developing authoring software for intelligent tutoring systems.
Collaborator, Iowa State University Center for Technology in Learning and Teaching
2003 - 2004 Principal Course Architect, UNext/Cardean University
Led design projects for online distance learning, defining course and page templates,
standards, and interface features of a community-building online learning environment.
2001 - 2003 Director of Course Interactivity, UNext/Cardean University
Mentored teams in interactive course design; set usability standards; designed
reusable learning objects to support course production.
2000 - 2001 Course Director, UNext/Cardean University
Supervised teams during design and development of online MBA courses; maintained
relations with supervising university faculty.
1999 - 2000 Learning Architect, UNext/Cardean University
Designed and built usability lab supervised by Don Norman; aided Course Development in
Iterative design processes; developed online MBA courses.
1997 - 1999 Research Fellow, Enterprise Learning, Center for Innovation in Product
Development, MIT; Collaborated with David Bell at Xerox PARC; evaluated MIT's distance
learning SDM degree program.
1994 - 1996 Instructor & Web Designer, MIT
Introduction to Psychology, with Steven Pinker
Tools for Thought, MIT Media Lab, with Mitchel Resnik, Justine Cassell, and Matthew
Brand
Story: Representation & Process, MIT Media Lab, with Ken Haase and Glorianna
Davenport
1992
Computer Graphics Designer, Princeton University
Designed and built software for experiments on gender differences in computer learning
with Joel Cooper.
1990 - 1991 Field Surveyor and Geographic Information System (GIS) Designer, Cyprus
Led surveying team and used SGI's GL library to build Geographic Information System
for the Polis Archaeological Expedition of Princeton University.
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Honors and Awards
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National Science Foundation SBIR Phase I & II Grant Awards: "Developing a Cost-Effective
Method for Creating Cognitive Models for Cognitive Tutors" ($631,637, 2005-2007)
Lguide Editor's Choice Award for excellence in online learning courses, 2001
MIT's Angus N. MacDonald Award for Excellence in Teaching Brain & Cognitive Sciences, 1997
Best Paper Award, Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education’s ED-MEDIA 96
Princeton University's Kenneth H. Condit Award for Outstanding Civil Engineering Thesis, 1992
Member, Sigma Xi
Research Publications & Presentations
Blessing, S., Gilbert, S. (2008, in press) Evaluating an Authoring Tool for Model-Tracing Intelligent
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Tutoring Systems. In the Proceedings of the 9 International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems.
Hategekimana, C., Gilbert, S., Blessing, S. (2008) Effectiveness of using an intelligent tutoring system to
train users on off-the-shelf software. In the Proceedings 19th Annual Conference of the Society for
Information Technology & Teacher Education.
Blessing, S., Gilbert, S., Ourada, S., & Ritter, S. (2007). Lowering the Bar for Creating Model-Tracing
Intelligent Tutoring Systems. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in
Education.
Harms, C. M., Niederhauser, D.S., Davis, N.E., Roblyer, M.D. & Gilbert, S.B.(2007). Educating educators
for virtual schooling: Communicating roles and responsibilities. Electronic Journal for Communication.
Blessing, S. B., Gilbert, S, & Ritter, S. (2006). Developing an authoring system for cognitive models within
commercial-quality ITSs. In Proceedings of the Nineteenth International FLAIRS Conference.
Gilbert, S. (1999) Different roles the Web can play. In M. Selinger and J. Pearson (Eds.), Telematics in
Education: Trends and Issues, New York: Pergamon.
Gilbert, S., Ngo, L., and Breisch, L. (1998) Analysis of hybrid distance learning: Corporate employees in
academic courses. Proceedings of the Third International Conference of the Learning Sciences.
Gilbert, S. (1997) An objective approach to trajectory mapping through simulated annealing. Proceedings
of the Nineteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Palo Alto, California.
Gilbert, S. (1996) The web as a student communication medium: What’s different? Proceedings of
Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education ED-MEDIA 96, Boston, 115-120.
Lokuge, I., Gilbert, S., & Richards, W. (1996) Structuring information with mental models: A tour of
Boston. Proceedings of Association for Computing Machinery SIG Computer-Human Interaction (CHI
96), Vancouver, 413-419.
Lokuge I., Gilbert S., & Richards, W. (1995) Visualizing information space: A tour through Boston. Poster
presented at the European Conference Visual Perception '95, Tübingen. Abstract in Perception, 24
Supplement.
Gilbert, S. & Richards, W. (1994) Using trajectory mapping to analyze musical intervals. Proceedings of
the Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Atlanta, 363-368.
Chorover S., Gilbert S., & Lafayette, J. (1994) A collaborative approach to environmental education using
hypertext. Poster presented at Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education ED-MEDIA
94, Vancouver.
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Lubin, J., Huber, E., Gilbert, S., & Kornhauser A. (1992) Lateral control of an autonomous road vehicle in
a simulated highway environment using adaptive resonance neural networks. Proceedings of the IEEE
Intelligent Vehicles '92 Symposium.
Invited Conference Participation
Designing Multimedia. Presentation at the University of Milan's eLearning conference, Milan, November
12, 2002. http://elearning.ctu.unimi.it/elearnconference/it/relatori/gilbert/bio.html.
Digital Approaches to Montessori: Who needs an Electronic Pink Tower? Featured presentation with
Seymour Papert at the American Montessori Association Spirit of Education Conference, March 17-20,
2000. http://www.webbates.com/ny/features.html#feat6
Workshop on What Everyone Should Know About Information Technology, Committee on Information
Technology Literacy of the National Research Council's Computer Science and Telecommunications
Board, January 14-15, 1998.
PBS teleconference panelist on web-based learning. The Web Plays Different Roles. The Eighth
National Conference on College Teaching and Learning, The Center for the Advancement of Teaching
and Learning, Florida Community College at Jacksonville, April 17.
Workshop on Spatial Navigation by Humans, Animals, and Robots, Office of Naval Research, NAS
Woods Hole Study Center; September 1995
Sample of Online Courses Designed
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Managing Organizations (M.B.A.), with Eric Abrahamson, Columbia University
Pricing and Market Entry Decisions (M.B.A.), with Judy Chevalier, University of Chicago
Managing Innovation and Product Development (M.B.A.), with Sunil Gupta and Atul Nerkar,
Columbia University
Protecting the Brand (Corporate Training), with Eric Abrahamson, Columbia University
Business Strategy for the Information Economy series (Continuing Ed.), with Hal Varian and Carl
Shapiro, UC Berkeley
Business Law I (B.S.), with Juli Crabtree, Attorney
College Composition I (B.S.), with Chris Land, Cardean University
Human Resource Management (B.S.), with Beth Rubin, Cardean University
Second Language: German
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