(Post-)Doctoral researcher on Responsive Open Learning Environments
Description:The Ariadne/HMDB research unit (http://www2.cs.kuleuven.be/~hmdb/www/) at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium is looking for new members to join our team!
We invite applications for a PhD or post-doctoral position financed by the European research project ROLE (Responsive Open Learning Environments, http://www.role-project.eu).
The overall aim of ROLE is to deliver and validate prototypes of highly responsive technology-enhanced learning environments, offering breakthrough levels of effectiveness, flexibility, user-control and mass-individualisation. It will advance the state of the art of several related domains: human resource management; self-regulated and social learning; psycho-pedagogical theories for adaptive education; service composition and orchestration; ICT-enabled lifelong learning. ROLE's generic framework uses an open source approach, interoperable across software systems and technologies. Results of ROLE will be disseminated to the targeted international markets in Higher Education and corporate training. In this project, K.U.Leuven plays a significant role in the development of technical specifications that are the basis for enabling the interoperability and personalized mashup of learning services.
Funding is available immediately. The research will be carried out at the Hypermedia and Databases Research group of the Department of Computer Science at the K.U.Leuven, in close collaboration with many of the leading research units on Technology Enhanced Learning in Europe and worldwide.
The candidate has the following profile:
- A degree in Computer Science, Informatics or equivalent with a minimum grade of cum laude;
- Interest in research on technology enhanced learning and a strong background in web services/Web 2.0 technologies.
Contact information:
Interested applicants should send their CV and motivational letter BEFORE AUGUST 20, 2009 to:
Prof. Erik Duval: erik DOT duval AT cs DOT kuleuven DOT be
(Post-)Doctoral researcher on Contextual Attention Metadata
Description:The Ariadne/HMDB research unit (http://www2.cs.kuleuven.be/~hmdb/www/) at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium is looking for new members to join our team!
We invite applications for a PhD or post-doctoral position financed by the European research project ROLE (on Responsive Open Learning Environments, http://www.role-project.eu) and the network of excellence on Technology Enhanced Learning STELLAR (http://www.stellarnet.eu/).
The focus of the research is on attention metadata: these describe user interactions with a diverse set of applications and web resources. The basic goal is to gather and process attention metadata in unobtrusive ways, so as to better understand and support the actions and goals of the end user across different applications. In a first phase, the research will focus on the domain of technology-enhanced learning. Typical applications would be a personal or shared dashboard, or a recommender service.
Funding is available immediately. The research will be carried out at the Department of Computer Science at the K.U.Leuven, in close collaboration with many of the leading research units on Technology Enhanced Learning in Europe and worldwide.
The candidate has the following profile:
- A degree in Computer Science, Informatics or equivalent with a minimum grade of cum laude;
- Interest in technology enhanced learning and metadata.
More information about the financial compensation can be found at:
http://www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsite/verloningspakket.html (Dutch)
or http://www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsite/welcome.html (English).
Contact information:
Interested applicants should send their CV and letter of application BEFORE AUGUST 20, 2009 to:
Prof. Erik Duval: erik DOT duval AT cs DOT kuleuven DOT be
