Permanand Mohan is a senior

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lecturer at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus,

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. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of the West Indies, an M.Sc. in Computer Science from the

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and a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of the West Indies. He is the Chief Examiner for the

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’s CAPE Examinations in Computer Science.

Biography

Permanand Mohan was born on March 20, 1965, in Gran Couva, Trinidad and Tobago. In 1989 he received a

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to study at the

. In 2003 he was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar to the School of Information Sciences at the

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as well as Visiting Professor at the Laboratory for Advanced Research in Intelligent Educational Systems (ARIES) at the

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Research

His research interests lie in the field of artificial intelligence and education, and the use of learning objects in

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. 2006 marked his entry into the field of

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with a publication at The Fourth Pan-Commonwealth ForumKiran Maharaj
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