Teemu Leinonen (born in 1969) has worked in research and development of online education for more than a decade.

His areas of interest and his expertise include issues such as design applied to teaching, computerbased collective learning, online cooperation, design of software for learning, educational planning and policies...

Since 1998, Teemu manages the Learning Environments research group at the Media Lab of the University of Art and Design in Helsinki, where he has coordinated research and development projects with the support of the European Commission within the framework of the IT Society, UNESCO, the Nordic Council of Ministers and the National Technology Agency of Finland (TEKES).