Keynote Speakers
We are happy to announce Prof. Wouter van Joolingen and Prof. Janice Gobert as the conference's keynote speakers.
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Prof. Wouter van Joolingen Department of Instructional Technology University of Twente, The Netherlands |
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Wouter van Joolingen (1962) studied Physics at Leiden University where he graduated in 1987. In 1993 he received his Ph.D. from Eindhoven University of Technology on the use of computer simulations for inquiry learning. In 1992 he moved to the University of Twente, working on the SMISLE and Servive projects in which the SimQuest authoring system was developed. After a year in industry Wouter worked for the University of Amsterdam from 1998 to 2004, where he worked in the Co-Lab project. In 2004 he returned to Twente and as of March 1, 2009 he is professor on the topic of “Computational Modeling in Educational Settings. Wouter has won the “Outstanding publication award” (EARLI, 1999, together with Ton de Jong), and the European academic software award for SimQuest (EASA, 2000, with the whole SimQuest team). In 2009 he was awarded the AECT Distinguished Development Award, for his work on the development of SimQuest and Co-Lab.
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Prof. Janice Gobert Department of Social Sciences and Policy Studies and the Department of Computer Science Worcester Polytechnic Institute, US |
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Janice Gobert is an Associate Professor of Learning Sciences and Psychology in the Department of Social Sciences and Policy Studies and the Department of Computer Science. She is the Co-director of the Learning Sciences and Technologies Program. Her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto (1994) is in Cognitive Science; her Masters is from McGill University, also in Cognitive Science. Her specialty is in technology-based with visualizations and simulations in scientific domains; her research areas are: intelligent tutoring systems for science, skill acquisition, performance assessment via log files, learning with visualizations, learner characteristics, and epistemology. Before coming to WPI, Janice was an Assistant Professor at Western Michigan University, a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University's School of Education, and Senior Research Scientist at the Concord Consortium (www.concord.org). Until December 2007, Janice served as North American Editor for the International Journal of Science Education. She has been principal investigator on many projects, which address technology-based science learning and assessment. |
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