Open University in the Netherlands

Dr. Hendrik Drachsler is assistant professor at the Centre for Learning Sciences and Technologies (CELSTEC) at the Open University in the Netherlands. Hendrik has 10 years of experience in the field of Technology-Enhanced Learning and worked in several national and international research projects (TENCompetence, SC4L, LTfLL, Handover, dataTEL). Hendrik serves as editorial board member, editor and reviewer of international scientific journals and conferences in the domain of Technology-Enhanced Learning and Recommender Systems.
In his current work, Hendrik is focusing on the personalization of learning with information retrieval technologies, recommender systems and educational datasets. Further, he is interested on the visualization of educational data, data mash-up environments, supporting context-awareness by data mining, and social and ethical implications of data mining in education. Next to these topics, Hendrik investigates the application of TEL in the health domain for handover procedures and simulation-based training.
Hendrik organised several workshops and round tables on Recommender Systems in Technology Enhanced Learning (RecSysTEL2010), Data Supported Learning (dataTEL10, dataTEL11), and Social Information Retrieval for Technology Enhanced Learning (SIRTEL 2008, 2009) at leading conference in the field (e.g. European Conference on Technology-Enhanced Learning 2009, European Conference on Technology-Enhanced Learning 2010, ACM Recommender Systems 2010, Alpine-Rendez-Vous 2011). He runs the Special Interest Group dataTEL at the teleurope.org platform: http://www.teleurope.eu/pg/groups/9405/datatel/
In 2010, Hendrik received funding from the European Network of Excellence - STELLAR for a Theme Team on educational datasets, data supported learning, and recommender systems. In 2011, the Netherlands Laboratory for Lifelong Learning granted Hendrik to investigate the potentials and limitations of learning analytics in formal and informal learning.