Scope: I’m interested in innovative, new and emerging learning and collaboration practices and concepts. In the role of a designer and researcher I’ve undertaken, accompanied and evaluated a number of inter- and transdisciplinary projects in the context of universities, schools and workplaces in Western as well as developing countries. As innovations in information and communication technologies facilitate, enable and transform learning practices, the interventions and projects have often involved the use of technology. My focus is on mobile learning, which means learning across new and changing contexts (and frontiers) using electronic mobile devices. Technology is, however, only one part of the overall picture; of particular interest are also the socio-cognitive and cultural aspects as well organisational contexts that are shaped by, and, in turn, impact on learning and work practices. My particular research interest is in the field of mobile learning in work settings including the clinical sector. I’ve widely published in the fields of technology-enhanced learning, mobile learning and information systems.
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Background and Short CV: I work at the learning.lab at the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland and I’m associate of the Swiss Network of Educational Innovation and of the London Mobile Learning Group.
Studying at the Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria, and at the Università Roma Tre, Italy, I graduated with a degree in social and economic sciences. I worked as a research associate at the Ars Electronica Center Linz and as an assistant for e-learning at the Department of Social and Economic Psychology at the J. Kepler University, Linz. Completing my alternative civilian service abroad, I engaged in educational and vocational projects with vulnerable children and young people at a non-profit organisation in rural Costa Rica. In Switzerland I have coordinated and worked on several projects in the field of technology-enhanced learning and information management.
Our recently published book: Pachler, N., Pimmer, C., & Seipold, J. (Eds.). (2011). Work-Based Mobile Learning. Concepts and Cases. Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien: Peter-Lang.
Affiliations
Research associate learning.lab at the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland |
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Associate member of “The London Mobile Learning Group” (LMLG) |
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Member of “Swiss Network of Educational Innovation” (SNBI) |
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Active Membership Amnesty International, University Group Berne |
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