by Jenny Johnson
Fall 1997
Dr. Ludwig Issing, nominated by
the International Division, receives the 1997 ECT Foundation deKieffer
International Fellowship Award.
Q Tell us about your work
to advance educational communication and technology.
I have set-up the qualification program
in educational technology and media at the Freie Universitaet
Berlin in 1992. Now, 1997, there are about 120 students enrolled
in that program. Most of these students are majoring in Education,
Psychology, and Communication Science. I am also head of the Institute
for Educational Psychology and Media Psychology, where I teach
courses.
Q Please share your philosophy
of teaching with us.
I support the constructivist
philosophy of active learning with the use of media. Multimedia
and the Internet, used properly are able to improve education.
Q Please describe your other international
cooperative efforts.
As of this semester, I am acting coordinator,
for my university, of student and faculty exchanges among partner
universities in Europe. There is no pay for this job, but the
meeting with the partner universities gives me great compensation.
Q You are currently the leader of
GPI, what is GPI?
I am President of the German Association
for Pedagogy and Information (GPI) until November 1997; and will
continue on the Board afterward. The goal of GPI is similar to
that of AECT: supporting improvement of teaching and learning
at all levels of education utilizing instructional technology.
GPI will hold its 30th annual convention the last week in October
1997 in Munich. The convention theme for ‘97 is “Learning
with Multimedia and Internet - New Perspectives
for Education”.
Q You have been instrumental in
forging professional ties in educational communications and technology
among universities, please tell us about this.
I am involved in setting up a Virtual
College in the Berlin-Brandenburg area that brings together the
teaching capacity of eight universities in that region and exchanges
courses on the Internet. I am also engaged in the evaluation of
the German national project, “Schools on the Net”.
This project’s goal is to connect 10,000 additional German
schools to the Internet.
Q You have a new book in print;
what is it?
My recent publication is the second
revised edition of the first German text on “Multimedia”
- information and learning with multimedia. Issing, L.J. &
P. Klimsa (1997), Weinheim, Germany: Beltz-PVU.
Q What is you involvement with AECT?
I have been a member for several years,
and have served as the Adviser to the International Division on
behalf of Germany since 1992. In this capacity, I submit an annual
report to the International Division about developments in our
field in Germany. I also report on the activities of AECT in the
United States to GPI.
NB: This article
first appeared on a web site hosted by the California State University,
Fresno web site. The original link is found at:
http://bogota.soehd.csufresno.edu/news98/fall97/interview.html
