Introduction

Alex Chapin is an Educational Technologist at Middlebury College.  He is currently directing the development of a number of open source curricular systems including the Segue Collaborative Learning System and systems for managing digital assets, assessments and knowledge bases as well as a standards-based framework and architecture for building database-driven web applications known as Harmoni. He has received a grant from the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education (NITLE) that supports some of this work.

Alex Chapin has a B.A. in psychology from Columbia University and an M.A. in History of Religions from the University of Virginia. He has a keen interest in Tibetan Buddhism, is a member of the Nalanda Translation Committee (which translates Tibetan texts), and is the multimedia designer of "Fluent Tibetan: The Vocabulary and Dialogues," a CD-ROM for learning Tibetan.