Research Interests
My research interests include E-Learning, Competence Management and Lifelong Learning, Mobile Computing and Learning, Adaptive Hypermedia, Contextualized Learning, and Personalization. Multimodal interfaces and auditory displays. At the moment I am involved with several initiatives and projects to build learning communities and social software.
Some Activities
I am currently Associate Professor at the Open University of the Netherlands in Heerlen. I am working on the TENCompetence Project for lifelong competence development, the Prolearn Network of Excellence and do national and international research projects in learning, knowledge management and contextualized information services.
PROLEARN aims at the application of personalization technologies in the e-learning industry and professional training during the first year of the project different business cases and applications scenarios have been analyzed and the requirements for the different stakeholders have been described.
From June 2002 until December 2005 I was the coordinator of the RAFT project on mobile learning and field trip support. The RAFT project (http://www.raft-project.net) is an international consortium of partners from the UK, Slovakia, Canada, and Germany aiming at the support of field trips with electronic tools and mobile computing devices.
I was coordinating the Fraunhofer FIT part of the WINDS project. WINDS was a large consortium of 28 european partners build a european virtual school of design and architecture. The consortium maintains and presents the eArch Portal. Our team at FIT-ICON is developing a specialized Learning Management System (LMS) for supporting index based navigation of reusable learning objects.
I was coordinating the Fraunhofer FIT part of the LISTEN project. LISTEN aimed at creating a individualized audio augmented environment in which users experience a 3D audio soundscape.
I am the cofounder of the bureau42 GmbH a partner of Fraunhofer FIT delivering services and products in the field of competence management, e-learning, and information brokering.