The Eighth IASTED International Conference on
Web-Based Education
~WBE 2009~

March 16 – 18, 2009
Phuket, Thailand

TUTORIAL SESSION

Using Mashups in Education: Web Technology Review and Sample Applications

Prof. Helmar Burkhart
University of Basel, Switzerland
Helmar.Burkhart@unibas.ch

Dr. Sven Rizzotti
University of Basel, Switzerland
Sven.Rizzotti@unibas.ch

Qualifications of the Instructor(s)s

Tutorial Session Portrait

Sven Rizzotti is a researcher within the High Performance and Web Computing Group of the University of Basel where he received a PhD in Computer Science. Rizzotti has several projects in the field of Web Mashup and Social Software. He received the IASTED CATE best software product award in 2006 for his e-learning system Tetrodo.

Both Burkhart and Rizzotti are members of the PharmaSquare project team, which was the winner of the 2003 Medida-Prix, the leading European award for innovations in university education.