Institutional Member News Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre for Education and Learning
About the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre for Education and Learning
The Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre for Education and Learning started as a network for training and knowledge exchange and, under Professor Marcus Specht‘s leadership, grew in recent years into a research centre focused on digitalisation and virtualisation of education and digital skills. The three universities formed a living lab for continuous innovation and improving university learning and teaching. In December 2024, the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre stopped its activities.
New era: Artificial Intelligence as a co-player in learning and teaching
What do ChatGPT and DeepSeek mean for learners? And for teachers and their teaching methods? Professor Marcus Specht, former director of the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre for Education and Learning, says: ‘What is technically possible is one thing; what long-term consequences it will have is another question.’ Specht draws a comparison with the situation of the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic: ‘Suddenly we had to switch at an unprecedented rate. That worked out, and online education has become indispensable. But what impact this digitalisation of teaching and learning ultimately has, we have not been able to properly explore.’ For more information, such as the NexusReport and the Brochure on Research For Digital Education, visit: https://www.leiden-delft-erasmus.nl/en/news/what-are-the-implications-of-technological-innovation-for-the-learning-human.
Outlook
Specht will continue his career at the Research Centre for the Higher Education of the Future at the FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany, and will remain a professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science at TU Delft for one day a week. Some of the research work related to the LDE-Center will be continued at the CATALPA Research Center for Higher Education at the Fernuniversität in Hagen.
“Our members benefited from the organisational membership of the Centre in reduced subscription rates for ECTEL and JTELSS. But the most important benefit was the networking in the Joint Summer School by meeting and exchanging with more than 100 active researchers in the field of technology-enhanced learning.”
Marcus Specht
Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Prof. Dr. Marcus Specht is Professor for Digital Education at the Technical University of Delft and Director of the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Center for Education and Learning. He also is scientific lead of of TU Delft for the 4TU Center for Engineering Education. He received his Diploma in Psychology in 1995 and a Dissertation from the University […]