VisitingResearchers

The VMT Project invites visiting researchers from other institutions and other countries to come to Drexel and work on the project for one or two quarters.

Drexel runs on a quarter schedule as follows:

• Fall -- Sept 29, 2003 - Dec 13 (October, November, December)
• Winter -- Jan 5, 2004 - March 20 (January, February, March)
• Spring -- March 29, 2004 - June 12 (April, May, June)

The following researchers have been invited:

Jan-Willem Strijbos

Ph.D. Candidate, Educational Technology Expertise Center

Open University of the Netherlands

Heerlen, The Netherlands

http://www.ou.nl/otecresearch/people/jan-willem_strijbos.htm

pre-publication paper related to his dissertation on functional roles: ftp://iisweb.cis.drexel.edu/stahl/vmt/Papers/Strijbos_functional_roles.pdf

pre-publication paper on Designing for Interaction: Group-based Learning -- ftp://iisweb.cis.drexel.edu/stahl/vmt/Papers/Strijbos_designing_for_interaction.pdf

• February 1, 2004 - June 30, 2004

Fatos Xhafa

Polytechnic University of Catalonia & Open University of Catalonia

Barcelona, Spain

http://www.lsi.upc.es/~fatos/

• September 1, 2004 - February 27, 2005

Alan Zemel

Communication Researcher, video analyst

• September 15, 2004 - August 15, 2005

Prof. Stefan Trausan-Matu

Department of Computer Science, Politechnica University of Bucharest and Romainian Academy Institute for Artificial Intelligence

Bucharest, Romania

http://www.racai.ro/~trausan/

• February 1, 2005 - July 31, 2005

Angela Carell

CSCL Researcher

Institue for Work Science, University of Bochum, Germany

http://iugsun.cs.uni-dortmund.de/iug-home/people/ac/

• April 1, 2004 - September 30, 2004

Dr. Martin Wessner

Head of the CONCERT research group on Cooperative Environments & E-Learning and the CSCL Competence Center at Fraunhofer IPSI

Darmstadt, Germany

http://www.ipsi.fraunhofer.de/concert/index_en.shtml?staff/wessner

• June 13, 2005 - September 9, 2005

IST Research Talks, Visits

Chris Hoadley -- January 6, 2004

Cindy Hmelo-Silver -- February 17, 2004

Howard Burrows -- February 24, 2004

Timothy Koschmann -- March 3, 2004

Jan-Willem Strijbos -- March 30, 2004

Alan Zemel -- April 6, 2004

Anna Sfard -- April 20, 2004

Simon Buckingham Shum -- April 22, 2004

Paul Uhlig -- April 22, 2004

Wesley Shumar -- April 27, 2004

Chip Bruce -- May 6, 2004

Workshops in town

Math Forum PIDL Workshop -- February 6-8

Penn GSEd Math Seminar -- Spring semester

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics -- April 20-21, 2004

VMT Workshop of Collaborators -- June 8-12, 2004