Jari Multisilta
Director, Professor, University Consortium of Pori, Finland
Jari Multisilta is the director of Cicero Learning Network in the University of Helsinki, Finland and the professor of multimedia at the Tampere University of Technology, Information Technology at Pori, Finland. Multisilta got his M.Sc. from the University of Tampere in 1992 in Mathematics and his Dr.Tech. at Tampere University of Technology in 1996. He did his doctoral thesis on hypermedia based learning environments for mathematics. Prof. Multisilta has studied learning and modern communication and information technologies and has taken part in several research projects on this area. Currently, his research interests include games for learning, mobile video storytelling, and mobile social video applications. Professor Multisilta has published over 100 international conference papers and journal articles on his research area. He was a Visiting Fellow at Nokia Research Center on 2008-2009 and Nokia Visiting Professor 2012. Multisilta has also been Visiting Scholar at Stanford University, H-STAR Institute for over 15 months during the period of 2007 - 2014.