Alex Chapin

Alex Chapin is an educational technologist at Middlebury College specializing in developing technologies for second-language acquisition. He has been directing the development of a number of innovative open source web applications including Segue, a curricular content management system, Concerto, a digital asset management system and Harmoni, a service-oriented application framework that includes implementations of the Open Knowledge Initiative open service interface definitions. He received a grant from the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education (NITLE). He is the author of iSpeak, a series of phrasebooks and language study products for mobile devices published by McGraw-Hill. Chapin has a B.A. in psychology from Columbia University and an M.A. in History of Religions from the University of Virginia.