Academic Staff
Name
Karen Stepanyan
Academic Title
Head of eLearning and Course Leader of Business
Computing Systems (Top-up).
Highest Qualification
PhD
Professional Title
Fellow of the HEA
Email
Karen.stepanyan@lsbm.ac.uk
Key Responsibilities
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Karen Stepanyan is the Head of eLearning and Course Leader of Business
Computing Systems (Top-up).
He also leads the eLearning Steering Group Meetings.
He is a key lead in developing and managing the virtual learning
environment (VLEs) providing the seamless integration of the IT and
eLearning for both staff and students.
Biography
Dr Stepanyan holds a PhD (Brunel University) in Technology-Enhanced Learning;
a PGCert (Buckinghamshire New University) in Teaching and Learning in Higher
Education; and an MSc (American University of Armenia) in Computer and
Information Science.
His primary research experience and interests are in the areas of social
computing, Web 2.0, collaborative learning, communities and networks, cognitive
and social mechanisms of learning, personalisation and assessment.
He is particularly interested in Semantic Web development and Linked Data.
Research interests and areas of expertise
Social network analysis, social computing, Web 2.0, collaborative learning,
communities and networks, cognitive and social mechanisms of learning,
personalisation and assessment.
Research and Publications
Articles:
G Gkotsis, M Liakata, C Pedrinaci, K Stepanyan, J Domingue (2015). ACQUA:
Automated Community-based Question Answering through the
Discretisation of Shallow Linguistic Features. The Journal of Web Science
1 (1)
Stepanyan, K., Mather, R., & Dalrymple, R. (2014) (Early View). Culture, role and
group work: a social network analysis perspective on an online
collaborative course. British Journal of Educational Technology.
Stepanyan, K., Littlejohn, A., & Margaryan, A. (2013). Sustainable eLearning:
toward a coherent body of knowledge. Journal of Educational Technology &
Society, 16(2), 91-102.
Conferences:
Gkotsis, G., Stepanyan, K., Cristea, A., & Joy, M. (Under Review). Selfsupervised automated wrapper generation for weblog data extraction.
Stepanyan, K., Gkotsis, G., Cristea, A., Joy, M., Kalb, H., & Lazaridou, P. (Under
Review). A Component-Based Data Model for Weblog Preservation. World
Wide Web Journal.
Stepanyan, K., Gkotsis, G., Banos, V., Cristea, A., & Joy, M. (2013). A Hybrid
Approach for Spotting, Disambiguating and Annotating Places in UserGenerated Text. World Wide Web 2013, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Gkotsis, G., Stepanyan, K., Cristea, A. I., & Joy, M. (2013). Self-supervised
automated wrapper generation for weblog data extraction. Paper
presented at the 29th British National Conference on Databases, Oxford, UK.
Gkotsis, G., Stepanyan, K., Cristea, A., & Joy, M. (2013). Zero-cost Labelling
with Web Feeds for Weblog Data Extraction. World Wide Web 2013, Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil.
Stepanyan, K., Gkotsis, G., Cristea, A., & Joy, M. (Under Review). A ComponentBased Data Model for Blog Preservation. International Journal of World
Wide Web.
Stepanyan, K., Gkotsis, G., Kalb, H., Kim, Y., Cristea, A. I., Joy, M., Ross, S.
(2012). Blogs as Objects of Preservation: a Definition with Significant
Properties. Paper presented at the iPress 2012, Toronto, Canada.
Banos, V., Stepanyan, K., Joy, M., Cristea, A. I., & Manolopoulos, Y. (2012).
Technological foundations of the current Blogosphere. International
Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics - WIMS'12, June 1315, 2012 Craiova, Romania.
Stepanyan, K., Littlejohn, A., & Margaryan, A. (2011). Sustainable eLearning in a
Changing Landscape: A Scoping Study (SeLScope) Supporting
Sustainable eLearning Special Interest Group (SSeLF SIG): Glasgow
Caledonian University.
Stepanyan, K., Borau, K., & Ullrich, C. (2010). A Social Network Analysis
Perspective on Student Interaction Within the Twitter Microblogging
Environment. Paper presented at the 10th IEEE International Conference on
Advanced Learning Technologies, Sousse, Tunisia.
Ullrich, C., Borau, K., & Stepanyan, K. (2010). Who Students Interact with? A
Social Network Analysis Perspective on the use of Twitter in Language
Learning. Paper presented at the EC-TEL 2010 - Sustaining TEL: From
Innovation to Learning and Practice 5th European Conference on Technology
Enhanced Learning., September 28 - October 1, 2010, Barcelona, Spain.
Stepanyan, K., Mather, R., Hamilton-Jones, C., & Lusuardi, C. (2009). Avoiding
Pitfalls of Peer Assessment. Paper presented at the The 9th IEEE
International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies.
Stepanyan, K., Mather, R., Jones, H., & Lusuardi, C. (2009). Student
Engagement with Peer Assessment: A Review of Pedagogical Design and
Technologies. Paper presented at the Advances in Web Based Learning –
ICWL 2009. Best Paper Nomination.