Thomas Ullmann's profile document
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Thomas Ullmann
Thomas Ullmann
Thomas
Ullmann
PhD Research Student
Thomas Ullmann researches in the area of technology-enhanced learning. He is especially interested in the automated detection of reflections in writings. His background is in empirical educational science and computer science.
At KMi he worked for CATALYST, STELLAR, the X-Media project and for SocialLearn.
During his work for the CATALYST project (http://catalyst-fp7.eu/), he led the design, implementation, and evaluation of the CATALYST Collective Intelligence Analytics Dashboard.
His focus of work for the STELLAR Network of Excellence (http://www.stellarnet.eu/) was about the development of the STELLAR Science 2.0 infrastructure for the researchers in the field of Technology Enhanced Learning. He helped to develop the social networking platform TELeurope.eu and still maintains it.
He developed 'Knowledge Lenses' for the SemSearch Semantic Search Engine within the X-Media Project (FP6 European Research Project: http://www.x-media-project.org/) to enhance the possibilities of knowledge engineers.
For SocialLearn he built the ELLIMent tool, which aims at supporting mentees developing their life long learning skills within a mentor relationship. ELLIMent builds upon the Effective Life Long Learning Inventory.
Permanent link to most recent research profile: http://qone.eu/ullmann
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Thomas Ullmann's participation in MUPPLE II
MUPPLE II
MUPPLE II
mash-up personal learning environment
MUPPLE II is your learning companion in the web. It supports you in learning new best practices from all the others out there - new practices in how to use tools for learning effectively. More precisely, MUPPLE II helps you to trace and replay usage strategies on the web. As a learner, you learn how to work with all the cool new tools on the web without loosing endless hours exploring their 'potential'. As a more knowledgeable other, you give your fellow peers a guide at hand that brings them up to speed - without you bothering to explain the thing over and over again. MUPPLE II is of course built as a Firefox Jetpack.
Thomas Ullmann's participation in STELLARNET
STELLARNET
STELLARNET
2009-02-01
2012-05-31
The open network of excellence in technology-enhanced learning.
STELLARNET represents the effort of the leading institutions and projects in European Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL) to unify our diverse community.
This Network of Excellence is motivated by the need for European research on TEL to build upon, synergize and extend the valuable work we have started by significantly building capacity in TEL research within Europe, which is required to allow the European Union to achieve its goals via the Bologna Agreement and the execution of the Lisbon Agenda. The European TEL agenda has been set for the last 4 years by the Kaleidoscope network � with a huge strength in pedagogy and scientific excellence, and the Prolearn network � with a complimentary strength in technical and professional excellence. Integrating this excellence and moving on to the higher strategic formation of policy based in leading research is the key challenge for the next stage.
STELLARNET will move beyond the earlier networks by setting a new and critical foresight agenda for Technology Enhanced Learning. The Network will be executed via a series of integration instruments designed to increase the research capacity of European TEL at all levels.
STELLARNET's instruments will act upon the backbone of an interlocking set of 3 Grand Research Challenge actions, themed as Connecting People, Orchestration and Context.
Thomas Ullmann's participation in ELLIMent
ELLIMent
ELLIMent
Online mentoring tool for the ELLI framework for lifelong learning
ELLIMent is an online tool which aims to support mentors and mentees with reflection on their dispositions for lifelong learning. It helps to organize the workflow between mentors and mentees through
(1) Keeping lifelong learning dispositions at the heart of the reflection process
(2) Enabling mentors and mentees to exchange reflection and action notes
(3) Enabling mentors and mentees to determine which reflections they share with each other and which they keep private
(4) Keeping track of the history of the mentoring sessions.
ELLIMent is based on on ELLI, the Effective Lifelong Learning Inventory (link to the ELLI research project page: http://www.ellionline.co.uk/), a self-report questionnaire designed to find out how learners perceive themselves in relation to the key dimensions of learning power. These dimensions are:
(1) changing and learning - a sense of myself as someone who learns and changes over time;
(2) critical curiosity – an orientation to want to ‘get beneath the surface’;
(3) meaning making – making connections and seeing that learning ‘matters to me’;
(4) creativity – risk-taking, playfulness, imagination and intuition;
(5) learning relationships – learning with and from others and also able to manage without them;
(6) strategic awareness – being aware of my thoughts, feelings and actions as a learner and able to use that awareness to manage learning processes;
(7) resilience – the readiness to persevere in the development of my own learning power.
ELLIMent represents a learner’s self-report in term of these dimensions as a spider diagram, giving mentors and mentees the opportunity to reflect on it, choosing dimensions and interventions to work on, to develop learning power.
Thomas Ullmann's participation in MUPPLE
MUPPLE
MUPPLE
Lecture series on Mash-Up Personal Learning Environments
In the last years the discussion about electronic learning environments has changed fundamentally. Based on the advancement of personal publishing tools and social software the barriers have been lifted to participate in discussions and to build an individual professional identity on the web.
As a side effect, this has also influenced the discussion about learning environments in technology-enhanced learning. While the improvement of institutional learning management systems was some years ago still the state-of-the art in recent times this discussion has been expanded towards an individual perspective on learning platforms called ‘personal learning environments’ (PLE).
Technically, this shift has been accompanied by new (‘mash-up’) technologies that empower end-users to actively build, modify, and maintain their environments.
The research work at the OU’s Knowledge Media institute (KMi) on MUPPLE thereby is one of the European epicenters of innovation. Just recently, KMi has been prized by the Mozilla Foundation with a special award for the work on an early prototype.
In project supported from the donation funds of the Open University, key researcher Fridolin Wild teamed up with Marco Kalz from the Open University of the Netherlands and Matthias Palmer from Sweden’s Royal Institute of Technology to create a guest lecture series with international experts in the field on this topic.