Michael H.W. Hoffmann is a deputy Director of the Institute for Microwave Techniques at Ulm University. He joined the institute as a professor in research and education after 16 years in the industry. Through the cooperation on a national and international level in the Bologna Process that has as its goal the modernisation of the European higher education area, he could gather experience in the design of modern curricula and their quality control through accreditation. (He is designated Chairman of the Faculty Association for Engineering and Information Technology, FTEI, and elected member of the accreditation commission of the ASIIN.) As a Vice-President of the European Association for Education in Electrical and Information Engineering (EAEEIE) he initiated EU-funded thematic networks, whose content includes also the support of classical teaching methods through modern media and the Internet. He has held lectures about the Internet in which students from many parts of Europe took part. For the support of the modern forms of teaching, he developed an internationally recognized interdisciplinary model of teaching that applies methods of engineering sciences to new findings from neurosciences, psychology and pedagogy, and that also attempts to explain the acquisition of knowledge and the influencing of behaviour through Web-offers.
Brian Holmes is Head of Unit at the new Executive Agency established by the European Commission to manage the Community’s programmes in education, training, culture and media. He is responsible for the unit dealing with the Comenius, Grundtvig, ICT and Languages actions under the Lifelong Learning Programme. The unit is also managing ongoing actions under the Socrates and eLearning programmes.
He has been working on education and training for many years at the Commission. Most recently he was involved with European policy for innovation and lifelong learning, supported by ICT, in DG Education and Culture. For several years he co-ordinated the eLearning Programme and prior to that, he worked for DG Information Society on the IST programme, where he was responsible for state-of-the art research projects addressing e-learning for work.
Brian Holmes is a Chartered Engineer and has an MBA from a Paris business school. Until recently he was a tutor with the UK’s Open University Business School, for the MBA module on Managing Knowledge, in which he used e-learning support for virtual collaborative work and on-line tutorials.
Allan Martin is a director of the IT Education Unit at University of Glasgow. He taught in secondary schools for ten years before moving into teacher education. He came to Glasgow University in 1995 to develop the University's IT Literacy Programme. His research Interests focus on the digital society, digital literacy, and education; he has published in these areas and been involved in a number of funded projects.
Research Interests: ICT and digital literacy; communities of learning; digital learning environments.
Major projects: Led the Citscapes project (2000-2002), funded by JISC, on student ICT Literacy in Further and Higher Education. Glasgow principal investigator for uLearn project (2001-2003), funded by the EC eLearning Initiative, on the development of a curricular framework for continuing professional development in ICT for teachers across Europe (led by ITD, Genova, Italy), and uTeacher project (2003-2005), funded also by the EC eLearning initiative, aimed at creating a pan-European syllabus for professional development of teachers in ICT (led by ITD, Genova, Italy). Leading the DigEuLit project (2005-2006), also funded from the EC eLearning initiative, focused on developing a European digital literacy framework.
Editor of the peer-reviewed online Journal of eLiteracy (JeLit) (www.jelit.org) Convener of the Foundation Committee for the eLit conference series (www.elit-conf.org)
Publications at http://www.iteu.gla.ac.uk/staff/amartin.html
born 1961 in Aachen, Germany. German language and literature, sociology and political science studies at Aachen and Frankfurt on the Main.
1991-1996 assistant lecturer of Media Pedagogic at the Alice-Salomon-Fachhochschule Berlin (university of applied sciences Berlin)
Since 1997 scientific worker at the federal institute of professional education (BiBB), since 2001 director of Grundtvig team at the National Agency of BiBB,
since 2004 deputy director of the National Agency.
Frank Schulenburg is the deputy director of the Wikimedia Foundation Germany - Association for encouragement of free knowledge. Since 2005 he is
an author of the german Wikipedia and takes part at some other Wikimedia projects. He is the initialiser of the Wikipedia Academy, an event organised and
cooperated with partners from science, aiming to establish Wikipedia more in the academic environtment. In June 2006 he organised the first Wikipedia
Academy ever at Göttingen University followed by another one in cooperation with the Academy of Science and Literatur at Mainz in August 2007. At the
moment he consults the Wikimedia Foundation with the sceduling of a Wikipedia Academy which is supposed to take place at the University of Western Cape
(UWC) at Capetown, South Africa in November 2007.
In September 2006 the Wikimedia Foundation launched the first Wikipedia school project on his initiative to improve the digital literacy of A-level
students of the gymnasium. Based on the observation, that young people widely use the new media unreflectedly, the events of Wikipedia school aim to
show young people how to critically use online-contents. In cooperation with the Institution for Bookscience at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
he also plans a scientific survey on how students use Wikipedia.
Carmen Stadelhofer, Academic Director and the Director of ZAWiW, is Pedagogist and Germanist. She works since 1984 at the University of Ulm. In 1994 she became the head of the Centre for General Scientific Continuing Education at the University of Ulm (ZAWiW) where her main task is the coordination of research projects on regional, national and international level.
Research focus: general scientific continuing education of women and people in the third age under consideration of innovative methods in adult education. Facilitation and application of the new media in adult education, fostering of self-organised learning of older adults with the aid of the new media. She chairs the national network ViLE e.V. and the Institut für virtuelles und reales Lernen in der Erwachsenenbildung an der Universität Ulm) (ILEU) e.V. She is a member of the managing board of BAG WiWA Germany, a vice-president of the A.I.U.T.A. with responsibility for Europemand the coordinator of the European Network LiLL.
Carmen Stadelhofer has coordinated many projects on a national and international level and also participated in actions coordinated by other organisations. Please see “Projects” at http://www.uni-ulm.de/uni/fak/zawiw/projektbereiche/en
Publications at http://www.uni-ulm.de/uni/fak/zawiw/publikation/de (German)
Stefanie Steiner is head of the project “Digital literacy” team, in the section Wissensgesellschaft und Kreativwirtschaft (“Knowledge Society and Creative Economy”) of the MFG Baden-Württemberg. The MFG is the innovation agency of the state for information technology and media. It takes care of the development and execution of state educational programs and initiatives for regional promotion. Among her partners and clients are ministeries, universities and media centres, private and public educational institutions and the charitable Landesstiftung Baden-Württemberg.
After finishing her studies on languages and communication sciences at the University of Tübingen, with her main emphasis on interactions between humans and machines, Mrs. Steiner was expert for educational marketing and manager for client-specific solutions. She worked with one of the biggest producer-independent training suppliers for IT and business skills in Germany. She analysed numerous extensive projects on further education. Combining the developmental and the production and sales processes, she developed a systematic procedure for the implementation of innovative, target group-specific and computer-aided training and councelling. After experience in international project management, she finished her education as an expert for new learning technologies (ENLT) at the Teleakademie of the FH Furtwangen. She concentrated increasingly on the potentials of integrative learning and on the use of the internet in learning processes. Within the context of the education initiative “klick – mach mit!”, Mrs. Steiner is now responsible for project control at the MFG, for course planning and extensive learning programmes. At the moment, her team evaluates for the European Project SpreaD the results of several exceptional projects on digital literacy in the Netherlands, Spain and Germany. In this context, a network of experts will be established for the implementation of programs on digital literacy in Europe.
Rick Swindell started his working life as a high school teacher in New Zealand in 1963. He taught for a year in Canada followed by a stint at university in the USA where he obtained a doctorate in fluorine chemistry. In 1972 he arrived in Australia and spent a short and thoroughly unrewarding period as an analyst in the Queensland Government Chemical Laboratory, a period which convinced him that people not test tubes were still his true vocation. His tertiary teaching career began in 1975 as a chemistry teacher educator at the Mt Gravatt College of Advanced Education. A number of near lynchings for inept teaching performance convinced him that a softer, gentler more accommodating student was needed so he obtained a Masters degree in adult education and discovered the wonderful world of older learners. He has been a researcher in the area of lifelong learning and positive ageing since then. In 1986 he introduced U3A to Brisbane and was an active member of the management committee for many years while they were based at Griffith University. He started the Directory of U3As in Australia/New Zealand in 1990 and maintained an annual hardcopy of that until 1998 when he was a joint founder of the first virtual U3A - U3A Online. He won several Griffith University awards for teaching excellence and in 2004 won an Australian Award for University Teaching. In 2004 he was admitted as a Member of the Order of Australia for services to education, particularly in the area of primary science and U3A.
born 1952 in Calw, Germany. Studies of Pedagogy, History and German language and literature at Tübingen, Germany. Deputy director of the Centre for political education Baden-Württemberg and director of the bureau “Media and Methods”. The cultural and political effects of the development of the new media are the focus of his work. Since 2000 he manages the federal working group “Politische Bildung Online” (Political Education Online). He is a lecturer at the institute of political sciences at the University of Tübingen
Frank Utermöhlen is the Sr. Director OEM Marketing at Microsoft responsible for all Marketing activities with OEM partners in Europe, Middle East und Africa. In this function he oversees the marketing programs for Multinational Accounts, Named Accounts, OEM Channel and Retail. Frank Utermöhlen has been with Microsoft for 20 years working in Management positions in various roles including Product Marketing, GM Business Manager CEE, Channel Sales & Channel Marketing as well as Small Business & Consumer Marketing. For the past 10 years he has been working in the OEM EMEA HQ.
