Gernold P. Frank

Gernold Frank is Professor for Human Resources and Organizational Behaviourat the Dept. of Economics, University of Applied Sciences Berlin (HTW Berlin; since1995). He is Program Director Bachelor International Business and head of TLTC –the universities eLearning competence center. He is co-founder and head of MasterLabour- and Human Resource-Management (launch: Oct 2010).Until 1994 he worked for the Dresdner Bank AG, D-Frankfurt on Main, CorporateCenter Personnel. Among other activities he was responsible for the creating andimplementation of a new company-wide appraisal system and he created an ownpersonnel development system for young professionals with high potential. From1999 – 2002 he has had a sabbatical for the Dresdner Bank AG in the field of `NewMedia in HR Management´ with two remarkable projects: (1) HR eCommerce and (2)PROSIPS (soft factors for success).From 1991-2000 he was academic advisor of LaSalle-corporate university, D-Frankfurton Main.He is board member ofABWF, a research activity for further education and training (Technical University of Aachen/D)Learntec, the leading congress on learning technologies (Karlsruhe/D)National Expert Group for `Learning-Working-Competence-Innovation´ (International Monitoring Project-RWTH Aachen/D)Academic Board for the studying programmes `Bachelor International Business´ and `Master International Management´ (FHTW Berlin)Research projects with focus on online-education:Since 2009 eCompetence Project 2004-2007 LEONARDO-Project: “Interactive tv in training for small and medium sized enterprises” 2005-2008 PALOMITA-Project: „eLearning – eScience – eAdminstration” 2006-2008 TLTC: “Teaching and Learning Technoloy Center” – eLearning competence center