Dr. Norm Friesen is Canada Research Chair in E-Learning Practices at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada. Dr. Friesen has been developing and studying Web technologies in educational contexts since 1995, and is the author of several editions of books on the effective use of instructional software and on the implementation of technical standards for online collections of educational resources. He is author of the monograph, Re-Thinking E-Learning Research: Foundations, Methods and Practices (Peter Lang, 2009), and is completing a second, titled The Place of the Classroom and the Space of the Screen: Relational Pedagogy and Internet Technology. Dr. Friesen is co-editor of Phenomenology & Practice (www.phandpr.org), an open, online peer-reviewed journal focusing on the application of hermeneutic phenomenology to the research of professional practice. Supported by Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) scholarships and grants since 2003, Dr. Friesen is presently undertaking funded research in media theory and in discursive psychology. Dr. Friesen is also a member of the Canadian delegation to the International Standards Organization subcommittee for Learning, Education and Training. He has previously worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University, and as an adjunct or visiting faculty at Athabasca University, at the University of Toronto, the Technical University of Dresden and the University of Innsbruck. His academic credentials include Master's degrees from the University of Alberta and the Johns Hopkins University, and a PhD in Education from the University of Alberta.