Academic Session ACA15
Blended Learning: The Student Owning Their Learning Environment
Date Friday, Dec 2 Time – Room Potsdam I
Learning is often a social activity, so at the basis of this talk lies that the learning environment needs to be a social learning environment. How can this be (co-)designed, stimulating both educators and students?
Hans van Bergen
Consultant Innovation in Education, Utrecht University of Applied Sciences - Faculty of Education, The Netherlands
Hans van Bergen is Consultant Technology in Education at the teacher training department of the University of applied sciences Utrecht (Hogeschool Utrecht) since 2005.
He is specializing in the use of IT in Education for more than twenty years. First he created eLearning courses in music for primary school teachers. Then he was involved in developing and implementing a digital portfolio in teacher training for many years and now he is a consultant innovation in Education at Hogeschool Utrecht. The past four years his focus was on blended learning and the development of digital learning environment tailored to pedagogy.
Hans is asked many times to present his ideas on blended learning at Dutch universities and other educational institutes all over the world.
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Nives Kreuh
Senior Consultant, E-learning, National Education Institute, Slovenia
Nives Kreuh is a Head of e-learning at the National Education Institute in Slovenia. She is doing the national research, strategy planning and implementation of new curricula through teacher continuous professional development in the field of digital pedagogy and e-learning.
She was leading the national E-competent teacher project in which they designed the standard of e-competent teacher, principle and ICT coordinators in schools framework called The Way towards E-competency. She focused on designing key e-competencies and developing the efficient training model called The Way towards E-competency, leading the instructional design and online courses (MOOCs) development for in-service teacher training and professional development to raise pedagogical digital literacy in schools nationwide.
She is the Head of Programme and Organising Committe of the international SIRikt* conference (*Enabling Education and Research with ICT), which is the largest educational conference in Slovenia with around 1000 delegates each year.
She also works internationally as the national expert and is the author of E-Competent Teacher, Principle and IT expert Framework and Designing E-Student Books Framework.