Ian is a senior lecturer in education located in Melbourne, Australia. He has a particular interest in flexible learning, e-learning and workplace learning from the perspectives of learners, teachers and managers. Specific areas of interest include learner readiness, adoption and diffusion of technology, educational and instructional design. Ian's website can be found at http://sites.google.com/site/robboian/ He has also located a number of audiovisual presentations on Youtube. These can be found by searching with the keyword "ianrobertson". His research approaches incorporate the use of naturalistic inquiry, Basil Bernstein's theoretical framework and Activity Theory.