SPECIAL SESSION

Design and Evaluation of Computer-based Learning Environments

Prof. Heinz Mandl
University of Munich, Germany
heinz.mandl@psy.lmu.de

Biography of the Organizer

Heinz Mandl is full professor of Education and Educational Psychology at the University of Munich since 1990. He was full Professor of Education at the University of Tuebingen from 1978 to 1990, head of the Department for Learning Research at the German Institute for Distance Education at the University of Tuebingen form 1978 to 1990 and Director of the German Institute for Distance Education at the University of Tuebingen from 1988 to 1990. He was elected speaker of the section "Educational Psychology" of the German Association for Psychology and of the interdisciplinary working group "Intelligent Learning Systems" (German Association of Computer Science) from 1987 to 1991, as well as president of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction from 1989 to 1991. Since 1999 he is a member of Societas Scientiarum Fennica (Finland). He received an award for the implementation of virtual learning environments to the University of Munich of the Bavarian State (Minister of Science, Research and Art) in 2001. His research topics concerns the analysis and support of knowledge acquisition and the application of knowledge in schools, universities and organizations/corporations (knowledge transfer), self-guided and cooperative learning, net-based knowledge communication in groups, personal and organizational knowledge management, and the design, implementation and evaluation of innovative learning environments with new media.

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