projects

My Current Projects

OTTM – OpenTravelTimeMap

• A project developing  a technological and social-economic concept for a platform for open travel time data
• partner: Salzburg Research, Uni Linz and others
• duration 03/2011-09/2012
• my role: wp leader “community and crowd-sourcing”
• Materials: [project description in German]

L3T: Lehrbuch für Lernen und Lehren mit Technologien

• textbook about learning and teaching with technologies (in German language)
• partners: Martin Ebner (TU Graz); Sandra Schaffert (Salzburg Research), about 130 authors, 80 reviewers and others
• duration 04/2010 – ongoing
• my role: editor, together with Martin Ebner
• materials [homepage] and several postings; [project description in English]

Salzburg NewMediaLab

• Austrian competence center about new media, focus on “Linked Media”
• partners: Austrian network of leading research institutions and enterprises e.g. RedBull Media House, ORF, mediamid, STI Innsbruck [complete list]
• duration 07/2010 – 07/2013
• my role: leader of the work package socia-economic studies (project leader: Georg Güntner)
• materials [homepage] and several postings;

LinksUp

• an EU-project – full title: “Learning 2.0 for an Inclusive Knowledge Society – Understanding the Picture”
• partners: University of Erlangen (DE), Arcola Research LLP (UK), University of the Hague (NL), Servizi Didattici e Scientifici per l’Università di Firenze (IT), European Distance and eLearning Network (UK) and Salzburg Research (AT); co-financed by the EC
• duration 11/2009-11/2011
• my role: researcher (project leader at Salzburg Research till 06/2011: Wolf Hilzensauer), and project leader at Salzburg Research (07/2011-11/2011)
• materials: [website] [mypost]- EU project about inclusion with learning 2.0

bildungsforschung

• scientific Journal with open access
• partner: Zeitschrift bildungsforschung e.V.
• duration: 04/2006-ongoing
• my role: editor, together with Bernd Schmidt-Hertha and Susanne Günther
• materials: [homepage], several postings

Former Projects

MobiComStudy

• A study about succesful mobile communities in the fields of gaming, learning and health (in German)
• partner: evolaris, Salzburg Research
• duration 04/2010-12/2010
• my role: project leader
• Materials: [factsheet], [my post], [zur Studie]

ComStudy

• study about successful online communities
• partner: Salzburg NewMediaLab
• duration: 10/2008-12/2009
• my role: project leader
• materials: [project overview] – see my publication list!

Future Content Study (FCP)

• Future News Sites
• partner: Salzburg NewMediaLab (conova communications, Salzburger Nachrichten, Salzburg Research)
• duration: 10/2006-12/2009
• my role: study about news sites (project leader: Sebastian Schaffert)
• materials: [project description] – see my publication list!

Open eLearning Content Observatory Services (OLCOS)

• about Open Educational Resources
• co-funded under the European Union’s eLearning Programme
• partners:  Salzburg Research (AT, coordinator), ecmc European Centre for Media Competence (DE), EDEN (HU), Fernuniversität Hagen (DE), Mediamaisteri Group (FI), The Open University of Catalonia (ES); co-financed by the EC
• duration 1/2006-12/2007
• my role: researcher and interim project manager (project leader: Veronika Hornung-Prähauser)
• materials: [homepage] – see my publication list!

MOSEP (More self-esteem with my ePortfolio)

• about e-portfolio
• co-funded under the Leonardo da Vinci Programme 2006-2008 (Pilot Projects)
• partners: Salzburg Research (AT, coordinator), Pädagogische Hochschule Salzburg (AT), Pädagogische Hochschule für Niederösterreich (AT), SCAS Student Computer Art Society (BG), Landesakademie für Fortbildung (DE), EIfEL (FR), Pontydysgu (UK), University of Science and Technology (PL), Kaunas University of Technology (LT), Wolsingham School & Community College (UK)
• duration: 08/2006-08/2008
• my role: researcher (project management: Wolf Hilzensauer)
• materials: [homepage]

Additional Contributions …

• KiWi – Knowledge in A Wiki – just some dissemination
• Innovcom – Innovation in traditional commerce – EU  e-business e-learning project
• Calibrate Umsetzungsbegleitung Österreich – validation for an EU project about educational content repositories for schools
• Online-Literatur Sozialforschung – a Wiki with bibliographies of scientific online literature in German – I stopped it 2009
• E-Assessment. my blog about computer based assessment and online-testing
• Contributions to Wikipedia, the free enzyclopedia

• and some more