On 12 June 2009, Prof. Dr. Erik Duval (Hypermedia and Databases group, K.U. Leuven) and his research team visited the CELSTEC Media Lab. CELSTEC is already cooperating with the group in the MACE project and the STELLAR Network of excellence.
The new issue of Computers in Human Behavior contains a special issue on Cognitive Load Theory. CELSTEC's Tamara van Gog and visiting professor Paul Ayres edited this special issue.
Yesterday, 25th of June, Minister of State (staatssecretaris) of Education Van Bijsterveldt, congratulated OUNL/CELSTEC and Hogeschool Iselinge on their collaboration in the academic teachers training. "This is a great initiative. It offers young people who want to become a teacher, a whole range of possibilities.
The organisation for public libraries (VOB), in collaboration with CELSTEC, is going to found a Library School. Thursday June 18th 2009 one of the initiators Rob Bruijnzeels (VOB) has presented the plans in Utrecht to the members of VOB.
June 20th 2009 Kelly Meusen, teacher in a primary school, received her MSc title from Els Boshuizen, the Director of the CELSTEC Education & Training Institute. (Continues in Dutch.)
The organising committee of the International Conference on Web-based Learning (ICWL) 2009 has nominated the paper of Riina Vuorikari, researcher at CELSTEC for the best paper award 2009.
In February 2009 the third annual TENCompetence review took place in Innsbruck, of which the review report has recently been released by the European Commission.
On 25 May 2009 the new members of the Supervisory Board of the Open University, Jo van Engelen and Peter Valks, visited the Media lab at CELSTEC, a research institute of the Open University.
The American Educational Research Association (AERA) has decided to award the 2009 Best Paper by a New Investigator Award to Fleurie Nievelstein, researcher at CELSTEC.
Within the scope of an international teaching project, CELSTEC and the Faculty of Natural Sciences organized a workshop on the ‘Implementation of competence-oriented distance teaching’ from 11-16 May 2009, in Benin. Teachers of the University of Parakou and the University of Abomey-Calavi participated in this workshop.