Speakers
Wim Van Petegem
KU Leuven, BelgiumStart
15/09/2022 - 09:00
End
15/09/2022 - 10:00
Address
Plenary Room (B00) View mapKeynote: i-Learn for personalized digital learning. How education providers and the EdTech sector collaborate in Flanders
Chair: 
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i-Learn is a platform that enables Flemish teachers to build customized learning paths for each pupil individually with both commercial and non-commercial digital learning tools. The development and implementation of this platform is based on a unique collaboration between education providers, the government and the EdTech sector in Flanders. All stakeholders have a specific role in this ecosystem, each with different interests, from pedagogical and didactic concerns to economical benefits or innovative business models. What are pro’s and con’s of such a platform? And which underlying organization is needed: who is doing what, when and why? How does this compare with other similar initiatives abroad? And what are boundary conditions to turn this into a sustainable project for the future?
About Wim Van Petegem
Wim Van Petegem received the MSc degree in Electrical Engineering at the Rijksuniversiteit Gent, in 1987, with a thesis on Analysis of sound and vibration signals for fault detection and diagnosis of a harvest combiner. He also received the MSc degree in Biomedical Engineering at the KU Leuven, in 1989, with a thesis on Signal Processing for Electrical Impedance Tomography. He was Research Fellow at the same university, in the Department of Electrical Engineering, in the division ESAT-MICAS, from September 1987 till September 1993, interrupted for one year military service. In 1993, he got a PhD degree, with the thesis Iterative Solutions to Electronic Problems, based on Finite Element Methods: Electro-Thermal Simulation and Electrical Impedance Tomography. Afterwards, he went to the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, for post-doctoral research on optical immunosensors. He worked there at the Department of Electrical Engineering and the Department of Immunology.
From October 1994, till September 1996, he was a post-doctoral fellow at KU Leuven, in the Division of Biomechanics and Engineering Design, working in the field of rehabilitation engineering. From October 1996 until October 1998, he was Senior Researcher with LINOV, the Leuvens Institute for Innovative Learning at the K.U. Leuven, involved in research on the introduction of ICT in education. From September 1998, he was Assistant Professor at the Science and Technology Department at the Open University of the Netherlands, involved in research on Web-based learning and in education on ICT and management.
In 2000, he returned to Leuven, where he became parttime senior researcher at LINOV (KU Leuven) and parttime lecturer at the Katholieke Hogeschool Leuven, Department of Economics. In 2002, he was appointed director of AVNet, a central support unit at the KU Leuven, for audiovisual and new educational technologies. Currently he is active at KU Leuven’s Faculty of Engineering Technology as Expert Multicampus & Engineering Education.