As a professor of educational sciences I hold the chair of Educational Media and Knowledge Management within the Faculty of Educational Sciences of University of Duisburg-Essen. I am directing the Learning Lab, a research and development facility working on projects for digital innovations in education.
The Lab is organized in groups addressing the various sectors of secondary, higher, vocational, adult and corporate education. It is responsible for two online-master degree programs: Educational Media and Educational Leadership, and several certificate programs.
We follow an approach of design-based research in education and cooperate with our university's Interdisciplinary Center of Educational Research, that comprises around 200 educational researchers of the different faculties of our university.
I have authored the German textbooks Mediendidaktik (5th ed.) and Didaktik (1st ed.) with the accompanying website didaktik.info.
As founder and partner of learninglab gGmbH, we are providing support und consulting to stakeholders in the various fields of education - to "explore the future of learning".
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University Duisburg-Essen: Service and Management Activities
- 2007-2012, 2015- Managing Board for "Information, Communication, Media (CIO)", 2002-2006, 2012-2015 University Commission on "Information, Communication, Media", 2014- E-Learning Strategy Commission
- 2010-2014 Member, Academic Senate
- 2007-2008 Vice-Rector
- 2005-2009, Center of Higher Education and Quality Development, Head of the Board
- 2010-2014, 2016-2020 Managing Board Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Education
- 2001 - , Director, Learning Lab
- 2003 - 2023, Online Master’s Degree Programs Educational Media (M.A.), 2010- , Educational Leadership (M.A.)
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Current and previous positions
- 2009, Offer Full Professorship "Chair of Learning Innovations", Department of Psychology, University Erlangen-Nuremberg (declined)
- from 2001, Full Professor of Educational Science, Chair of Educational Media and Knowledge Management, Department of Educational Sciences University of Duisburg-Essen
- 1998-2001, Professor of Educational Psychology, Ruhr-University Bochum
- 1990-1998, Professor of Educational Technology, Furtwangen University of Applied Sciences, Department of Digital Media (1995-1996 Dean, 1995-2000 Head of tele-akademie)
- 1983-1990, Research Assistant, Department of Pedagogy, Ruhr-University Bochum
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Grants
- List of Projects
- 2010-2020: total funding received of approx. 15 Mio. € in direct costs
Awards
- 2018, 2019 Reviewer Excellence Award in recognition of exemplary academic services in support of the Educational Technology Research & Development - a SSCI journal on EdTech.
- 2018, Fellow of Society for Media in Higher Education e.V.
- 2016, TOP 500 in Europas Human Resource Management
- 2004/05 Fellow, Swiss Center for Innovations in Learning, University of St. Gallen (CH)
- 1998 Award for Excellence in Teaching (Landeslehrpreis) from the Ministry of Education and Science, Baden-Württemberg
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Professional Activities
- 2021 -, editorial board, Postdigital Science and Education (book series), Springer
- 2020 -, editorial board, Digitalisierung in der Bildung. Forschungsstand und -perspektiven (book series), Waxmann
- 2020 -, editorial board, International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education, SpringerOpen (SSCI)
- 2020 -, editorial board, Information | Section: Information Applications
- 2018 -, editorial board, Distance Education, T & F (SSCI)
- 2018 -, editorial board, Journal of Research on Technology in Education, T & F (SSCI)
- 2018 -, editorial board, Postdigital Science and Education, Springer
- 2017- , editoral board, Educational Technology: Research & Development" , Springer (SSCI)
- 2004-2017, editoral board (and founding editor) of Zeitschrift für Hochschulentwicklung (journal of higher education development)
- 2003-, advisory board, MedienPädagogik, journal for theory and application of media in education
- 2017-, advisory board on "Educational Research" for the Federal Ministery of Education, Germany
- 2004-2006, member of the board, Section "Media and Education" of German Society of Educational Science (DGfE)
- 2000-2002, chairman of the board, Society for Media in Higher Education (GMW e.V.)
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