About the Author

Pierre Dillenbourg is a professor of learning technologies at the EPFL and the academic director of the EPFL Center for Digital Education. This center produces MOOCs that involve nearly one million participants. Pierre has conducted research in learning technologies since 1985. He currently leads a lab (chilli.epfl.ch) that among other things explores augmented reality, tangible interfaces, paper-based computing, and eye tracking. He started as a schoolteacher in Brussels, graduated in educational sciences at the University of Mons (Belgium) and obtained a PhD in computer science from the University of Lancaster (UK).