On 13 May 2012 prof. dr. Marcus Specht of CELSTEC gives a lecture at the Discovery Centre in Kerkrade Continium. His lecture is titled 'Nieuwe media - nieuwe manieren van leren' (new media - new ways of learning).
On 25 April 2012 Paul Kirschner gave a seminar at the Open Universiteit titled ‘Get your results published’. The seminar was aimed for researchers of the OU. The seminar was attended by mostly young researchers and PhD's.
On 10 May 2012 Steven Verjans gave the keynote presentation during the seminar 'Online tutoring' of the School of Education of the Catholic University of Louvain. This was done by videoconferencing.
9 till 11 May 2012 the conference ‘The profit side of learning’ takes place in Noordwijkerhout. At this conference CELSTEC’s Wilfred Rubens and dr. Marco Kalz will give a presentation. Kalz will go into the potential of tablets and e-books for mobile personal learning environments. Rubens will present a new business model for distance learning that the OU is expermenting with.
15 June 2012 dr. Marcel van der Klink will give his inaugural lecture as lector at Zuyd University of Applied Sciences. Preceding the lecture it is possible to follow a workshop. Van der Klink, researcher at CELSTEC, is lector at the lectorate Professionalisation of education.
Monday 30 April 2012 Marco Kalz has given a presentation for the teachers of the Otto-Hahn-Gymnasium in Bergisch-Gladbach (Germany). In his keynote he deconstructed two pervasive arguments which are very often repeated by teachers and learners in the school context: the inter-generational problem of digital natives vs. digital immigrants, and the often cited infrastructural limitations of schools.
3-6 September 2012 CELSTEC organizes an EARLI Advanced Study Colloquium (ASC) on eyetracking. The colloquium will bring together researchers from Educational Sciences working with eye tracking and eye tracking methodologists in order to jointly exploit the possibilities and address the challenges so that this technique can be effectively used to design, evaluate and improve education.
On May 6, 2012 Prof. Els Boshuizen of CELSTEC gives a lecture at the Discovery Centre in Kerkrade Continium. Her lecture is titled "Van talent naar expert"(from talent to expert).
9 May 2012 Discovery Centre Continium in Kerkrade organizes the talkshow The Young Brain: on adolescents and the developing brain. Talkshow host Frans Pollux talks with three guests who study the young brain and the storms it has to go through. One of the guests is Renate de Groot of CELSTEC.
