Andrew Ross is currently writing up a PhD (DPhil) at Oxford
University, studying how adult online learning communities produce
benefits for their users. He teaches statistics on the Research
Methodology and Comparative and International courses in Oxford
University's Department of Educational Studies. He was the Public
Policy Co-ordinator for the Oxford Internet Institute in 2002,
leading its wide-reaching inquiry into the status of public broadband
both in the UK and abroad. He has also recently completed a small-scale
study on the concept of community in an online children's game
called Toontown.
Andrew's background is in molecular biology. He currently retains
an affiliation with Prince George's College in the US, where he
teaches an online introductory biology course. He has worked with
NASA on a GIS ground-truthing project, the NSF on several teacher-training
initiatives, and is a contributing author to a 1996 primer 'Using
Educational Technology with At-Risk Students' (Mendrinos, Greenwood
Press). Andrew also worked with Teach For America, the national
teacher corps, teaching for a two-year assignment in inner-city
Washington, D.C.