The main purpose of GTC is to support teaching and learning in higher education, continuously reflecting and improving the way of teaching to enhance student learning - of course, digital technologies play a role. GTC offers different programs for teachers, instructors and students such as a teaching sabbaticals, going abroad for teaching at a...
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iSchool faculty are committed to collaborative, interdisciplinary approaches to their work, both within MU and among other research-extensive universities. Areas of focus include, but are not limited to:
Professor Dr. Thomas Herrmann visits Mizzou
Professor Dr. Thomas Herrmann was in Columbia, MO at the IELab in the week from 4-12 December 2015.
Education Committee of ISLS
The ISLS - International Society of the Learning Sciences - has new members of the Education Committee- HURRAY :-)
A small but great conference where German speaking reearchers gathered to discuss research on tablets in schools (20 Nov 2015, University of Mainz). JProf. Jasmin Bastian (on the photo, left, first row) and Prof. Stefan Aufenanger (on the photo, second from left, first row) invited us to the University of Mainz. We discussed existing reearch...
Zeit-Konferenz and German Telekom Foundation about 'Digitalization in Schools in Germany'
The 'Die Zeit' (German Newspaper) and the 'Deutsche Telekom Stiftung' invited me as expert in the field of tablets on schools in Scandinavia. The conference took place on Nov/19, 2015 in Berlin. The focus of the conference was how to support and design teaching and learning in the digital age. Instead of asking, 'if' schools face a digital...
GoogleGlass and Recon - Learning Expeditions for New Students on Campus Using Smart Glasses
This is the day. I (we, the IElab) got GoogleGlass. Last week, we visited the department of Computer Science, Dr. Prasad Calyam https://engineering.missouri.edu/person/calyamp/ and team. They created a demo with Recon smart glasses. Nice.
Arrived in Columbia, Missouri. I started my new position as a professor at Mizzou, School of Information Science and Learning Technologies (SISLT). A new scientific adventure is waiting, I just have to grab it. :-)