Inaugural address Hans Hummel at NHL in Leeuwarden

March 18th 2010 dr. Hans Hummel will deliver his inaugural address as lector ‘Werkplekleren en ICT’ at the Institute for Education and Communication (IEC) of the Northern Polytechnic Leeuwarden (Noordelijke Hogeschool Leeuwarden). In his address Hans Hummel will expose his vision and programme for this lectorate.

Context and en collaboration
In Hummel’s approach two concepts play a key role: context and en collaboration.  Context because the programme is aimed on the one hand at the development of authentic tasks with which students solve problems in actual professional situations. This kind of tasks can connect theory and practice. Collaboration because on the other hand the programme is aimed at the creation of Communities of Practice (CoP) in which those involved collaborate and think about these tasks and professional situations. Today’s professional practice sees joint knowledge creation as important.

Knowledge market
The address will be preceded by two presentations and a knowledge market in which actual ict results elaborations and examples of practical research will be presented. The programme starts at 14.30 hours and ends at 18.30 hours. The inauguration takes place in the Theater at the new location of the NHL.

Lectorate
The lectorate Workplace-based learning and ICT (Werkplekleren en ICT) does design-oriented research into guidelines for effective didactics for workplace-based learning and the most suitable use of ict. The lectorate started in February 2009 with Hans Hummel as lector. Since then a programme plan has been written and members of a knowledge circle have started on the improvement of workplace-based learning.

About Hans Hummel
Hans Hummel (1960, Ridderkerk) joined the Open Universiteit Nederland in 1987 as an educational technologist, first as assistant professor and later as associate professor. Hummel has (co-)developed dozens of distance courses in multi-disciplinary teams and has lead the development of interactive computer programs in a variety of domains. He has been involved in the design, development and further dissemination of innovative learning technology. In 2005 he successfully defended his thesis titled Design of Cueing in Multimedia Practicals. More recently he has been researching life-long learning networks and serious games. Beside his lectureship at NHL he will continue to work half-time at CELSTEC within the Learning Media programme.