Kaleidoscope Announces New Scientific Manager
Grenoble (F)/ Oslo (NO), January 2007 - Prof. Sten Ludvigsen has been elected the new scientific manager of Kaleidoscope, the European Network of Excellence for research in technology-enhanced learning. He replaces Dr. Nicolas Balacheff from CNRS, France, who has guided Kaleidoscope through the last three years. Professor Ludvigsen is Director of InterMedia, an interdisciplinary research centre at the University of Oslo, Norway.
Ludvigsen comments, "It is a privilege for me to take over from Dr. Balacheff. I believe that Kaleidoscope has achieved much already but also has enormous potential. It is essential that all our stakeholders recognise this and understand exactly what the network can contribute to society and education across Europe in the longer term. Indeed, over the next year, the issue of sustainability is perhaps one of the most important things that we need to address, and we are working very hard on this now. Pragmatically, we will be directing efforts towards the new Framework 7 programme".
Sten Ludvigsen is a specialist in how to use digital learning resources and the relationship between co-located and distributed settings, both in the educational and workplace settings. At InterMedia, he leads the research group for Net-based learning and the research group for socio-cultural studies in education.
He is also head of the Faculty of Education at the University of Oslo's strategy group for learning and ICT as well as of the specialised research school on learning, communication and ICT. He also serves as co-head of the strategic interdisciplinary research network on Competence and Media Convergence (CMC), which is a priority area at the University of Oslo.
