Ruth Halperin is currently a PhD candidate and a Teaching Assistant at the London School of Economics, Department of Information Systems. In her doctoral research, she is examining structurational perspectives on technology mediated learning practices. She earned her BA and Master Degrees at Tel-Aviv University (both with distinction).

Until September 2001 she was a project manager and a member of the product management team at Britannica Knowledge Systems, a company specializing in the development of E-Learning technologies. She was a member of the Curriculum Development Centre at Beit Berl College, Israel, where she acted as a supervisor of curriculum design projects and developed media-integrated training programmes. She was also responsible for a number of longitudinal evaluation studies in the area of curriculum development and implementation.

She was the instructor for an Undergraduate Course in the Department of Educational Science at Beit Berl College and, prior to that, she held an appointment as Teaching Assistant at the Holon College of Technology, Israel. Over a period of several years, she was an employee at Claridge Israel Inc. and Renaissance Management Fund, charged with the design, operation and management of the company’s database system.

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