Keynote 3: Cognitive Psychology and its implications for TEL Design

Keynote Abstract. TEL offers lots of opportunities for enhancing learning, but what does it enhance and why. I argue that there are different approaches for TEL, theory driven, tech driven, need driven. The talk with highlight examples from different TEL projects and what makes approaches strong and weak. About the

Speakers

Marcus Specht
Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

Start

23/05/2022 - 21:00

End

23/05/2022 - 22:00

Address

University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki   View map

Keynote

Abstract. TEL offers lots of opportunities for enhancing learning, but what does it enhance and why. I argue that there are different approaches for TEL, theory driven, tech driven, need driven. The talk with highlight examples from different TEL projects and what makes approaches strong and weak.

About the speaker. Prof. Dr. Marcus Specht is a Professor of Digital Education at the Technical University of Delft and the Director of the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre for Education and Learning. He received his Diploma in Psychology in 1995 and a Dissertation from the University of Trier in 1998 on adaptive information technology. From 2001 he headed the department “Mobile Knowledge” at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology (FIT). From 2005 to 2018 he was Professor for Learning Technologies at the Open Universiteit Nederland and head of the Learning Innovation Lab. His research focus is on Computational Thinking, Learning Analytics, AI in Education, and Virtual and Augmented Reality for Education. Prof. Specht is an Apple Distinguished Educator and was President (2013-2015) of the International Association of Mobile Learning. He is currently the president of EATEL.

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