Abstracts
Together for the Long Haul: Supporting Net-Based Collaborative Learning
Tuesday 5 May 2009, 0830 - 0915
Presenter: Peter Reimann
Research Centre for Computer-supported Learning and Cognition (CoCo), NSW
Presenter Biography
Peter is currently employed as Professor of Education in the Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney. Peter studied Psychology at the University of Freiburg (Germany) and received his PhD from the same university. Her worked for a number of years as assitant professor in Cognitive Psychology in Freiburg, and was between 1996 and 2003 Professor for Educational Psychology at the University of Heidelberg (Germany). He also spent two years as a researcher at the Learning Research and Development Centre, Univ. of Pittsburgh (USA). Peter’s primary research areas are learning research with a focus on educational computing, multimedia-based and knowledge-based learning environments, e-learning, and the development of evaluation and assessment methods for the effectiveness of computerbased technologies.
Current research activities comprise among other issues the analysis of individual and group problem solving/learning processes and possible support by means of ICT, and analysis of the use of mobile IT in informal learning settings (outdoors, in museums, etc.). He’s also interested in e-research methods for learning research, in particular educational data- and text mining. In addition to basic research, Peter has been involved in a number of European Commission-funded R&D projects and has been working frequently as consultant for the European Commission’s educational technology research programs. He has also done consultancy for numerours industry partners, and more recently for the Singapore Ministry of Education as well as The Learning Federation.
Since 2003, he co-directs the CoCo research centre at the University of Sydney, which has grown to 20+ researchers and PhD students, and also, since 2005, directs the ICT unit of the Faculty of Education and Social Work
