Kommers Piet
Introduction
Piet Kommers is associate professor in the University of Twente, The Netherlands. His actual interest is media, learning and visual communication. His Master study in 1980 formulated algorithms for adaptive learning. In his PhD study he questioned how conceptual representations may support the cognitive integration in learning. He was Scientific Director of NATO Advanced Research Workshop: "Cognitive Technologies" in 1989.
From 1990 until now he was
increasingly involved as partner and coordinator in European research projects
in media based and continuous learning. His role in initiating higher education
in Eastern Europe led to his UNESCO chair, followed by the award of honorary
doctor by Capital Normal University
in Beijing in
2000.
From 2005 to 2007 he was part time lector at the aspect of “mobile learning” by Fontys University of Applied Sciences. He is adjunct professor in the faculty of computer science in Joensuu University (Finland) and advisor in the ministry of Education in Singapore. His publications stretch the fields of media, communication, education and lifelong learning, among six books and more than fifty proceedings and journal articles. 24 PhD studies and more than 80 Master student projects were supervised.
Latest functions
- 2008 Committee Member for the Academy of Sciences; Innovative Projects in Education. Ministry of Education, Helsinki, Finland
- 2007 Lid Beoordelingscommissie voor de Open Competitie MaGW voor het Gebiedsbestuur Maatschappij- en Gedragswetenschappen van de NWO
- 2006 - Scientific Board Member for New Learning Projects. Ministry of Education, Singapore
- 2005 - 2007 Lector at Fontys for the Integration of ICT in Education (0.5)
- 2004 - Appointed as Regular Visiting Professor for Human Factors in Multimodal Communication for the European PhD Academy IMPDET at Joensuu University, Finland
- 2004 Visiting Professor at the Institute of Educational Multimedia and Telematics; University of Hokkaido, Sapporo, Japan
