| I am professor of educational science at the University of Duisburg-Essen and hold the chair of Educational Media and Knowledge Management within the Faculty of Educational Sciences. I am directing the Learning Lab, a research unit with 40 employees working on projects about digital change in education. The Lab is organizied in five groups addressing the various sectors of secondary, higher, vocational, adult and corporate education. Our projects are all financed by third party funds, mainly from the public sector and foundations. We are devoted to 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. |
University Duisburg-Essen: Service and Management Activities
- 2007-2012, 2015-2019 Managing Board for "Information, Communication, Media (CIO)", 2002-2006, 2012-2015 University Commission on "Information, Communication, Media", 2014- E-Learning Strategy Commission
- 2007-2008 Vice-Rector, 2010-2014 Academic Senate
- 2005-2009, Center of Higher Education and Quality Development, Head of the Board
- 2010-2014, 2016- Managing Board Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Education
- 2001 - , Director, Learning Lab
- 2003 - , 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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Awards
- 2018, Fellow of Society for Media in Higher Education e.V.
- 2018, Reviewer Excellence Award - Development Section ("Educational Technology: Research & Development")
- 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
- 2018 -, editorial board, Distance Education, T & F
- 2018 -, editorial board, Journal of Research on Technology in Education, T & F
- 2018 -, editorial board, Postdigital Science and Education, Springer
- 2017- , editoral board, Educational Technology: Research & Development" , Springer
- 2004-2017, editoral board 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
- 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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