Knowledge Media Research Center
| Knowledge Media Research Center | |
|---|---|
| Formation | 2001 |
| Type | Research Institute |
| Location | Tuebingen, Germany |
| Website | http://www.favinom.eu/index.html |
The Knowledge Media Research Centre - IWM-KMRC is Germany’s leading research institution for the investigation of knowledge acquisition and knowledge exchange with new educational and communication media in individual and cooperative contexts. It is now becoming a distinguished international institution in the field of media-based learning.
The research focuses on individual learning in multimedia and hypermedia environments with main topics being issues of learner control, adaptive user strategies, learning with dynamic visualizations, designing multimedia learning environments and supporting different learners’ competences to use such environments.
KMRC conducts sustainable research in the field of media-based learning and teaching approaches not only is in need of excellent basic research, but also of cooperation with practitioners. The KMRC tries to build such a bridge between basic research and applied science by working together with schools, universities, museums, and the industry. The institute realizes pilot studies whose suitability for practitioners is proven in cooperation with external partners.
The KMRC's research makes a strong contribution to meeting current challenges in the educational sector. For the higher education sector, such a task for instance is to implement the guidelines of the Bologna-process.
E-Hoop Partner
KMRC is an international leader in knowledge management and new media research. Its main responsibility is to elaborate on the scientific grounding of the methodology and of the instructional design of the software modules of the learning environment. Its scientists will collaborate with FC and CNTI to provide the literature review and the scientific justifications (WP3). KMRC will also be responsible for the “Requirements Definition Document”. They will lead WP4 on sample content testing, assessment and pilot operation and they will be involved in the interpretation of the results, contextualization and preparation of scientific abstracts, reports and papers for publication in peer-reviewed journals. They will review the methodology to evaluate the impact of the developed environment and will both send and host short scientific missions with the aim of finalizing the plans for the design. KMRC will also serve as a source of young scientists who might be invited to include aspects of the project in their theses, thus contributing to higher scientific standards.
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