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Dr. Jonathan Kaplan (Ph.D.) is the owner and manager of KAPLAN CONSULTANTS. He is a social scientist and consultant in adult education who has been involved in project and program design, management and evaluation in adult education and vocational training for 25 years. His expertise ranges from instructional design and technology enhanced learning environments to auditing and assessment of private and public sector training and educational systems at an international level. He has taught educational technology at Avignon University and currently is part-time Adjunct Professor at West Paris University where he teaches postgraduates in the Department of Psychology. He did his Ph.D. on Self-Direction in Cooperative Learning, namely Study Circles. He has since conducted research on collective self-directed learning in a nationwide company in France. He is pursuing research on self- and co-regulation of learning and continues to be actively involved in European projects. Jonathan Kaplan is a member of the Psychologie des acquisitions et des interactions en contexte lab (EA 4431).

The research Jonathan Kaplan conducted on Study Circles is available as a book. Find out more here.
A list of selected publications by Jonathan Kaplan can be found here.

Dr. Jonathan Kaplan is board member of:

ISCAE - International Society for Comparative Adult Education

and is member of:

ESREA - European Society for Research on the Education of Adults

CASAE - Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education

Robert Rizo is an adult educator who was initially trained as a high school teacher. In 2006 he took leave from the French National Education System and joined KC where he contributes primarily to educational staff counselling.