Awarded Ph.D. Projects

• "Problem-based Learning" by Martin Podges. Open University The Netherlands.

• “Asynchronous Coaching of Initial Teacher Students” by Ralph Hooreman. Univ of Eindhoven. Copromotor. 2008

• “The Computer as a Metacognitive Tool for Gaming” by Philip Bonanno. Univ of Joensuu; Ass Promotor. 2008

• “Higher Education ICT Policies” by Maggy McPherson. Sheffield University; Promotion Committee Member. 2007

• “Ethnographic Factors in Mathematics and Com­puter Science” by Matti Tedre. Co-promotor. University of Joensuu. 2006

• “Using generative probabilistic Models for Mul­timedia Retrieval” by Thijs Westerveld. Member of the Promo­tion Committee, University of Twente. 2005

• “Reading Intervention Technology in English for the Students of Polytechnic Colleges” by S. Senthilnathan. External Referent, Alagappa University, India, 2004

• “Hypermedia Interaction Design: A Cognitive Constructivist Approach” by Lee Chien Sing. Faculty of Information Technology and Mul­timedia. Ex­ternal Referent, University, Malaysia. 2004

• “Kritische und nicht kritische Spielstände im Wettkampftennis: Individuelle Leistungsvoraus­setzungen und differentielle Leistungsfolgen.” Dr. Maite Iriarte Rego for the title "Doctor Europeus". Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 2004. Referent.

• "Intelligent Agents for Orientation on the WWW" Lora Aroyo (2001). Univ. of Twente. Internal Advisor

• "Mapping in the Educational and Training Design Process" Svetoslav Stoyanov. 2001. Univ. of Twente. Assistant Promotor

• “Multimedia and Hyperspace”. Jose Bidarra de Almeida; 2001. Universidade Aberta, Lis­bon, Portugal. Member of the Promotion Board

• "A Study of the Social and Material Distribution of Cognition". Ilias Karasavvidis. (1995-1998). Univ. of Twente. Member of the Promotion Com­mittee

• "Cognitive Tools for Learning". Anders Broberg; (Dec 1999). Umea, Sweden. Faculty opponent

• "Concept Mapping for History Awareness" He­redina Fernandez; (1996 - 2000). Autonoma Uni­versity of Madrid. Referent for the International Ph.D. certificate

• "Memory, Cognitive Style and Concept Mapping in Learning Biology” Heling Huai; 2000. Univ. of Twente. Assistant Promotor

• "Concept Mapping as an Epistemic Support Tool" Viatcheslav Bykov; 1997. Kiev, Ac. of Science. External Promotor

• "Learning and Working with Electronic Perform­ance Support Systems" Theo Bastiaens; 1997. Univ. of Twente. Promotion Advisory Board and Opponent

• "Adaptable Courseware" Sjoerd de Vries; (1991-1997). Univ. of Twente. Assistant Promotor

• “Investigating the portability of multimedia learning resources: Design for a "Teaching Models Toolkit"; Zhang Ji-Ping, 1996, University of Twente, advisor

• “Cross-cultural portability of educational software: A communication-oriented approach;” Zhu ZhiTing, 1996, University of Twente, advisor

• "Knowledge Engineering for Courseware Design" Alnoor Ladhani (1992-1996). Univ. of Twente. Member of the Promotion Advisory Board

The Silk Road Initiative

Inderscience Journals

• Int Journal of Continuous Engineering Education and Life-Long Learning

• Int Journal of Web-Based Communities

IADIS Conferences

• Web-Based Communities

• E-Society

• Visual Communication

Ongoing Courses

Master Studies of Media Communication and Organisation

Keynote Speeches

• Information and communication technologies in education process: Rožnov pod Radhoštěm. 15. 9. – 17. 9. 2009

• The 2009 World Congress on ICT for Development, WCID’09, held Sept. 10-12, 2009 in Beijing

• ETC 2009 Conference Hacettepe University in Ankara; may 6-8 2009

• Mobile and virtual presence in the learning community; dec 2008 Ascilite, Melbourne

• Learning amongst the Young Generation in the new University; sept 2007, Hamburg

• WEBIST 2006 Conference, Setubal, Portugal, april 11-13, 2006

• WBE2006 Conference, jan 23-25, 2006, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico

Ongoing and Recent Projects

• Study on the Social Impact of ICT (CPP N°55A – SMART N°2007/0068)

• SMART's Excecutive Summary

• Student Projects in the Course "Designing New Media Applications"

• Acculturation Project and its underlying Project Plan

• Videos for the Surf Acculturation Project

• Atlantis - Fipse EU/US Project on International Higher Education

• EU Grundtvig Piazza Natura Project

• Doctor - Patient Communication

Selection of Publications

1. ICO Interuniversity Center for Educational Research

2. NESCoR The Netherlands School of Communications Research

3. HFES Europe Chapter of The Human Factors and Ergonomics Society; Membership and “Colleague”

4. EARLI (European Association for Research in Learn­ing and Instruction).

5. VOR Member of the NWO-Board of Governors of the Division “Information Technology for Education”

6. AERA (American Educational Research Association)

7. UNISCENE Member of the Consortium: University Network of Innovative Student-Centered Education; Twente – Roskilde

8. ECIU European Consortium of Innovative Universi­ties

9. ICCE (International Conference for Computers in Education)

10. ISAGA (International Simulation and Gaming Asso­ciation)

11. Committees and Conference Organization

12. Referee for the British Council Researcher Exchange Programme

13. Elected first Co-Chair and Host of the ICALT-2006 Conference in the Netherlands

14. Invited as first Co-Chair of the Program Committee of EdMedia-2005 in Montreal

15. Member of the Review Board of the IFIP World Computer Congress 2004 WCC2004-AIAI; Toulouse, France August 22-27, 2004

16. Review Committee of the Dutch Directions in HCI; The SIGCHI.NL Conference for Academics, Practi­tioners and Students. June 10, 2004. Amsterdam

17. Workshop Program Committee of the IEEE 13th In­ternational Workshops on Enabling Technologies In­frastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE 2004)

18. Review Committee Member of the Dutch Directions in HCI; The SIGCHI.NL Conference for Academics, Practitioners and Students. June 10, 2004. Amsterdam

19. Main Chair of the International Conference on WWW-based Communities 2004 and 2005. March 24-26, 2004. Lisbon

20. Program Committee of ICCE Melbourne, December 2004

21. Program Committee Member of the EDUTECH 2004 Conference. 26-27 August 2004. Toulouse, France, sponsored by IFIP WG 10.5 in cooperation with IFIP WG 3.6 in conjunction with the IFIP World Com­puter Congress

22. Workshop Program Committee of the IEEE 13th In­ternational Workshops on Enabling Technologies In­frastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE 2004)

23. Program Committee of ICCE Melbourne, December 2004.

24. Member of the Program Committee; AIAI 2004 IFIP WG12.6 -- First IFIP Conference on Artificial Intelli­gence Applications and Innovations. Toulouse France August, 22-27, 2004.

25. Main Chair of the the International Conference on WWW-based Communities 2004 and 2005. March 24-26, 2004. Lisbon.

26. Committee Member IADIS International Conference e-Society 2003 and 2004. Lisbon, Portugal. 3-6 June 2003

27. Member of the Workshop Committee: IEEE 12th International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE 2003) Workshop on Evaluation of Collaborative In­formation Systems and Support for Virtual Enter­prises; June 9-11, University of Linz, Austria

28. Program Committee Member. ICCE 2003 Hong Kong Dec 2-5, 2003

29. Technical Program Committee for the IEEE 1st Inter­national Workshop on Technology for Education in Developing Countries

30. Program Committee of the WEDELMUSIC 2002 and 2003 conference in Darmstadt and (ICSRiM), Leeds, UK

31. Program Committee of the IADIS International Con­ference WWW/Internet 2002; Lisbon, Portugal. 13 - 15 November 2002

32. Organizing Committee of the United Engineering Foundation Conference on E-Technologies In Engi­neering Education: Learning Outcomes Providing Future Possibilities. August 11-16, 2002. Davos, Switzerland

33. Member of the conference board and chairman of the panel sessions ICALT 2001

34. Reviewer for the TiCSE 2000 The 5th Annual Confer­ence on Innovation and Technology in Computer Sci­ence Education

35. Reviewer of the EU Research Proposals in the INTAS stream (2000)

36. CHI 2000; Conference on Human Factors in Comput­ing Systems. Paper Reviewer and Co-Chair small pa­pers