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As part of the Federal Government’s 2017 Digital Summit (formerly National IT Summit), the Expert Group on Intelligent Education Networks organized its 2nd Start-up Dialogue in Mannheim. Start-ups, young companies and junior academics were invited to submit their technological ideas, concepts, mock-ups, prototypes and

I was one of about fifty experts invited to the acatech symposium „Collaboration as the key to innovation“ that was held in the premises of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy in Berlin September 5th 2017. The key question

This year’s IT summit was governed by the headline „Learning and Acting in a Digital World“, maybe somehow influeced by our project group’s recommendations about Smart Education Networks. A few members of the project group including myself attended the summit

edu-sharing-net’s education cloud project was the Best Practice Award winner in category education organized by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy’s initiative Intelligent Networking. The award was delivered during CeBit 2016 i Hannover.

April 27, 2016 I gave an invited presentation about our view of a topical e-learning ecosystem at the „Smart e-Learning and Enterprise Development Seminar“ that Prof. Shen from Shanghai Jiao Tong University had organized in Pinghu, China. Renowned speakers from Australia,

edu-sharing won the Best Practice Award for Intelligent Networking in the education sector among numerous projects published on the Open Innovation Platform.  This platform was launched in 2015 by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy to foster its initiative Intelligent Networking and provide

It is with great sadness that I learned Prof. Ram, a great mentor an dear friend has left us March 9, 2016.

As a member of the project group Intelligent Education Networks, one of several thematically oriented task forces of the focus group Intelligent Networking, I attended the National IT Summit in Berlin, Nov. 18-19, 2015. The focus group with its task forces supports the German Federal Government

Again I had the pleasure to open the Annual Conference of the Society for Design and Process Science (SDPS) in Fort Worth, Texas, which marked the 20th anniversary of the society I once co-founded. It was my honor to present

We have produced a video abstract introducing an open data paper published in the British Journal of Educational Technology, vol. 46, no. 5, pp. 965-971.    The raw data collected in the study are openly accessible on a library server of FernUniversität.