Fred Beven has had twenty-five years experience as a vocational educator and educational administrator within the Queensland TAFE system and twenty years experience as a teacher and researcher in Vocational Education at Griffith University. His research interests include the cognitive aspects of the acquisition of vocational knowledge. The development of technical expertise in hypermedia learning settings has been the focus of his recent research, particularly how different kinds of settings press for different kinds of cognitive activity. Current studies are examining the role of hypermedia structures in developing different kinds of knowledge. Fred was a former editor of the Australian Vocational Education Review.
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