 He was also the chair of the Plymouth e-Learning Conference, rebranded in 2012 as 'PELeCON' at the University of Plymouth, United Kingdom; an international event that was held every year on the University of Plymouth campus from 2006-2013.In 2011 Larry Sanger used a blog post by Wheeler as an example of what he termed "educational anti-intellectualism.Wheeler's response cast doubt on Sanger's academic and intellectual standing whilst situating his own argument concerning the declining relevance of declarative knowledge alongside other educational ideologues such as Ken Robinson.