Bjoern Hassler

Position/Status

Senior Research Associate

E-mail Address

bh213@cam.ac.uk

Phone

+ 44 (0)1223 (7)67683

Qualifications

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Profile

Bjoern is working on in the area of Open Educational Resources, ICT and pedagogy. He is leading the "ORBIT" project, that seeks to produce an Open Resource Bank on Interactive Teaching for teacher education and development, focussing on ICT use in mathematics and science education. Björn is also working with Sara Hennessy on the OER4schools project introducing interactive teaching and ICTs in Zambian primary schools.

Bjoern is working on in the area of Open Educational Resources, ICT and pedagogy. He is leading the "ORBIT" project, that seeks to produce an Open Resource Bank on Interactive Teaching for teacher education and development, focussing on ICT use in mathematics and science education. Björn is also working with Sara Hennessy on the OER4schools project introducing interactive teaching and ICTs in Zambian primary schools. More widely, Bjoern interests include applications of technology to teaching and learning, as well as public engagement and lifelong learning. He is particularly interested in the appropriate application of technology to international development, and the so-called digital divide. Recent projects have included moderating the Access to Open Educational Resources discussion on the UNESCO OER Community mailing list, as well as various ICT and development projects in Zambia, including projects on rural women's education. Bjoern has also made substantial contributions to institutional podcasting development both within the University of Cambridge, as well as the international audio-visual community, and provided consultancy for businesses, professional societies and non-governmental organisations. Bjoern has a first degree in physics and astronomy and a PhD in maths from the Faculty of Mathematics.

Academic Area/Links

Science, Technology and Mathematics Education

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Research Topics

Current Research Projects

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Teaching

Bjoern is not teaching within the Faculty currently.

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Selected Publications

Haßler, B.,  Hennessy, S., Lubasi, B., (2011), "Changing Classroom Practice using a School-Based Professional Development Approach to Introducing Digital Resources in Zambia", Itupale Onpne Journal of African Studies, Volume III, May 2011. http://www.cambridgetoafrica.org/resources/Itupale_Volume_3_2011.htm#hassler_et_al
Haßler, B., Hennessy, S., Lord, T., Cross, A., Jackson, A., Simpson, M., (2011),"Appropriate New Technologies to Support Interactive Teaching in Zambian schools (ANTSIT)". A joint report from Aptivate and the Centre for Commonwealth Education (University of Cambridge). Final Report to DfID. March 2011. http://www.sciencemedianetwork.org/wiki/W:Blog/20110523_Mobile_Learning_Event

Haßler, B., McNeil, A., Jackson, A., (2010), "Bridging the Bandwidth Gap: Open Educational Resources and the Digital Divide"; IEEE Transactions On Learning Technologies, Special Issue On Open Educational Resources (edited by Erik Duval and David Wiley), April-June 2010 (Vol. 3 No. 2), pp. 110-115. http://www.sciencemedianetwork.org/wiki/Bridging_the_Bandwidth_Gap_-_OER_and_the_Digital_Divide

Haßler, B., (2009),"Access to Open Educational Resources", a report about the UNESCO Communities discussion about access issues. (2009, http://oerwiki.iiep.unesco.org/index.php/Access2OER).

For additional links to the above, and for further publications, please visit: http://www.bjoernhassler.de/Publications/