Prof. Dr. Thomas Köhler

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    1. Contact us
    2. Core research areas
    3. Curriculum vitae
    4. Publications

Contact us

Thomas Köhler © K.J. Lassig

Director CODIP

Name

Mr Prof. Dr. Thomas Köhler

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Contact Information
Organization Name

CODIP

CODIP

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Visiting address:

BSS, 4.th Floor, Office 450 Strehlener Str. 22/24

01069 Dresden

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SKYPE, ADOBE CONNECT and MOBILE upon request

Core research areas

Analysis, conception and evaluation of the use of new media & multimedia with a focus on

  • eLearning & knowledge cooperation with new media;
  • educational organization and technology;
  • virtual organizations and sustainable knowledge cooperation;
  • didactic design of ODL & educational multimedia for education and science;
  • cooperative work with new media (telecooperation & computer-mediated communication);
  • e-Science and online research methods;
  • personal & social identity in human-computer interaction

Curriculum vitae

since 04/2008

Director of the Center for Open Digital Innovation and Participation (CODIP), TUD Dresden University of Technology
since 12/2007 Managing Director of the Institute for Vocational Education
11/2005–03/2008 Academic Director of the Media Design Center, TU Dresden
12/2002–11/2005 Junior Professorship (W1) for "Teaching-learning research with special consideration of multimedia learning" at the University of Potsdam
  • at the Institute of Education (Faculty of Human Sciences)
  • 05/2004 Appointment as professor according to new law (W1)
  • At the same time teaching at the Universities of Bergen (Norway, Media & Information Sciences Dept., since 11/2003) and Dresden (Educational Technology, since 10/2004)
  • 06/2005 Evaluation as Junior Professorship
  • 02/2006 Award of the teaching qualification (facultas docendi) by the University of Potsdam; due to the call to the TU Dresden, which has been accepted in the meantime, the teaching license (venia legendi) cannot be granted
04/2000–12/2002 Post-doc and research assistant (C1) at the Chair of Work, Industrial and Organizational Psychology at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena with Prof. Dr. R. Trimpop
09/1996–03/2000 Research Associate and doctoral student (BAT IIa):
  • Research Associate at the Department of Communication Psychology at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena with Prof. Dr. W. Frindte 04/1997 - 03/2000
  • 11/1999 Dr. phil. in communication psychology; topic of the thesis: "The construction of the self in computer-mediated communication" with Prof. Dr. W. Frindte
  • Research Associate at the Chair of Social Psychology at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena with Prof. Dr. W. Frindte 09/1996 - 03/1997
01/1995–08/1996 Doctoral studies at the Chair of Social Psychology at the FSU Jena with Prof. Dr. W. Frindte
09/1990–05/1995 Studied psychology and sociology at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena and at the Liberal Arts College Swarthmore (USA),
  • 05/1995 Intermediate examination in Sociology (M.A.), thesis topic: "Sociobiographical analysis of managing directors in the Jena region" with Prof. Dr. R. Schmidt
  • 12/1994 Diploma in Psychology with specialization in Educational Psychology (Prof. Dr. W. Schnotz) and Work, Industrial and Organizational Psychology (Prof. Dr. P. Richter); topic of diploma thesis: "Social psychological processes in computer-mediated communication" with Prof. W. Frindte
09/1988–08/1989 Studied physics at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena
11/1985–08/1988 Military service as a media technician
09/1985–10/1985 Worked as an electromechanic at Keramische Werke Hermsdorf

Publications

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