Chris Evans

Research Group:

Primary Membership - ISEing

Profile:

Dr Chris Evans is a Fellow of Brunel’s Teaching Academy. He was nominated for a National Teaching Fellowship Award and received a commendation from the Higher Education Academy in e-Tutor of the Year. Before joining Brunel, he worked at the Open University and London University. He obtained his PhD in the Department of Computing at Imperial College.

Research interests:

Human-computer interaction
Design of interactive multimedia systems for learning
Cognitive effects of interactivity in e-learning systems
Usability engineering
Evaluation of interactivity in information systems
Innovative learning technologies
Adoption of technology and diffusion

Teaching:

Managing Information with Technology
Interactive Web-based Systems
Research Methods for PhD Students
Issues and Controversies in eBusiness

Recent and forthcoming publications:

Evans, C. (2007). The effectiveness of m-learning in the form of podcast revision lectures in higher education, Computers & Education, In Press, Corrected Proof, doi:10.1016/j.compedu.2007.09.016.

Evans, C. & Gibbons, N. (2007). The Interactivity Effect in Multimedia Learning, Computers & Education, 49, 1147-1160, doi:10.1016/j.compedu.2006.01.008.

Evans, C., Gibbons, N., Shah, K. and Griffin, D. (2004). Virtual Learning in the Biological Sciences: Pitfalls of Simply “Putting Notes on the Web”, Computers & Education, 43, 49-61.

Evans, C., Gibbons, N., Griffin, D. (2004). Computer Simulations Improve University Instructional Laboratories, Journal of Cell Biology Education, 3, 263-269.

Gibbons, N., Evans, C., Griffin, D. (2003). Learning to karyotype in the university environment: A computer-based virtual laboratory class (KaryoLab) designed to rationalize time for the tutor/researcher and to encourage more students to engage in cytogenetics, Journal of Cytogenetic and Genome Research, 101 (1), 1-4.

Evans, C. & Sabry, K. (2002). Evaluation of the Interactivity of Web-Based Learning Systems: Principles and Process, Journal of Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 40 (1), 89-99.

Evans, C. & Fan, J. (2002). Lifelong Learning Through the Virtual University, Journal of Campus Wide Information Systems, 19 (4), 127-134.

Evans, C. (2002). Copyright and the Net. In The Internet: Brave New World? (pp. 19-38). Hodder & Stoughton.

Evans, C. & Sabry (2002). The Evaluation of Interactivity in Web-based Systems, Proceedings Human-Computer Interaction 2002, London, UK, 179-182.

Evans, C., Baldwin, L. & Sabry, K. (2002). Interactivity in Information Systems for Web-based Learning, Proceedings UK Academy for Information Systems Conference, Leeds, UK, 63–71.