Dr. Markus Hofmann

Dr. Markus Hofmann is currently a lecturer at the Institute of Technology Blanchardstown where he focuses on the areas of web development, data mining and business intelligence. He has taught at Level 6, 7, 8 and 9 in subjects such as Data Mining, Data Mining Applications, Text and Web Content Mining, Web Design, Information Retrieval and Databases. Dr. Hofmann published extensively at national as well as international level and specialised in recent years in the areas of Data Mining, learning object creation, eLearning and virtual learning environments. He further has strong connections to the Business Intelligence and Data Mining sector both on an academic as well as industry level and currently is involved in the conceptual design and development of several projects such as a fully integrated eLearning tool for the data mining software RapidMiner, a Moodle VLE Plug-in to Support Simultaneous Visualisation of a Collection of Multi-Media Sign Language Corpora Objects, and 2-D and 3-D visualisation of multiple learning objects. Furthermore he is co-editing and co-writing a book on data mining case studies focusing strongly on educational concepts and techniques to improve the learning experience in this area.