Armin Weinberger is founding professor and head of the Department of Educational Technology and Knowledge Management. His main research interests lie in analyzing and facilitating the generation, construction and sharing of knowledge in small groups of learners, working teams, and larger communities. Armin has a 20-year experience in designing, implementing, and investigating computer-supported collaboration scripts that orchestrate roles and activities of learners in technology-enhanced environments.

Armin is on the editorial board of ijCSCL (International Journal of Computer Supported Collaborative Learning) and associate editor of the JLS (Journal of the Learning Sciences), the two premier journals of the Learning Sciences field. Of the top ten most cited articles in ijCSCL, Armin is an author of four of them and the most published author in said journal 2006-2014. Recent publications concern the design and investigation of mass collaboration platforms for learning, such as social networking sites like Facebook, to leverage argumentation for learning online.