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Pierre Gorissen

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Welcome to this English page about me. As you might have noticed, the rest of the site is in Dutch. That is not only because I am Dutch, but mainly because my audience is Dutch also. Even though a lot of the messages point to English pages or news items, for now I decided it would be best to post my comments about them  in Dutch.

The most things I publish are in Dutch also, I didn't duplicate their listing on this page, but if you are capable of reading Dutch, it is best to have a look at the Dutch version of the about me page. 

Work

up Fontys University of Professional Education

After working as a teacher at the school for Information Management in Venlo for about six years, I now work as a consultant and trendwatcher for the Educational Development department of Fontys. My main area of work is the use of IT in Education.

up Norm Comity Learning Technologies

I represent Fontys in the Norm Comity Learning Technologies NL flag of the Dutch Standards institute (Nederlands Normalisatie-instituut or NEN).  The Dutch Norm Comity Learning Technologies coordinates the standardisation activities for learning technologies in the Netherlands. One of the first products of the comity was the translation of the draft norm for Learning Object Metadata NL flag better known as the LOM.

up SURF Foundation

SURF is the higher education and research partnership organisation for network services and information and communications technology (ICT). Part of my time I work for SURf as a Project Manager Learning Technology. Currently my work is focussen on assessment and the re-use of tests. I represent SURF in the IMS Global Learning Consortium and I'm the co-chair of the QTI (Question and Test Interoperability) specification project team.

Publications and Presentations

These are just the publications, presentations and posts on my blog available in English and I have to admit, I sometimes forget to update this version of the page. But if you are able to read Dutch, you might want to have a look at the Dutch page also. 

up Advanced Navigation Options using Camtasia Studio -
January 2007

Screencast about creating more advanced navigation for Quicktime and WMV's in Camtasia Studio. You can find the screencast here in a number of different formats.

up Installing Moodle on a USB Drive -
December 2006

You no longer need a live network connection to be able to run Moodle. Just install it on a USB drive. This screencast explains step by step how to install the software. No special USB drive needed, just one that is big enough to hold the files. You can find the screencast here in a number of different formats.

up QTI update
November 2006

During the IMS Quarterly Meetings in Heerlen in November 2006 I gave an overview of what is new in version 2.1 of the QTI specification. The presentation is available for download (PPT 540kB).

up QTI Quickscan 2006 edition -
November 2006

After the first quickscan in 2003, the Digitale Universiteit asked to create an updated version of the Quickscan. Both quickscan and additional files can be downloaded from this page.

up Social Software: Building Networks of Learners
August 2006

I gave a lecture during the Ticer course Digital Libraries à la Carte: New Choices for the Future on August 25, 2006. The PowerPoint file that I used is available for download (PPT 2,481 kB) Before and during the lecture I used a wiki. That wiki is still available online and a snapshot of the state it was in on August 26, 2006 is available for download (ZIP 2,589 kB).

up Dutch e-Learning in Europe -
April 2004

Report about Online Educa Berlin 2003 that I co-authored with Petra Boezerooy from SURF, with contributions from other Dutch presenters. An online version can be downloaded here (PDF 1,8MB) and an offline version can be ordered here.

up Alfanet Worked Example: What is Greatness? -
April 2004

This document consists of an example of a Learning Design based on the What is Greatness example originally created by James Dalziel from WebMCQ using LAMS. Note: The example has been created in parallel with the actual development of the Alfanet system. So no claims can be made that the example actually will work in the final system. Now available from the OUNL DSpace system.

up Conceptual framework for Europe's future knowledge services
February 2004

European roadmap for e-learning RTD in support of higher education and life long learning for the coming ten years. Deliverable 1, produced within the e-LearnTN project under the fifth Framework Programme of the European Commission. Now available from the OUNL DSpace system.

up Joint CETIS Assessment SIG / SURF SiX meeting -
12 January 2004

Shorter version of the presentation about the QTI quickscan for the first joint meeting of the CETIS Assessment Special Interest Group (SIG) and SURF SiX in Amsterdam. The presentation is available online and there is a report on the meeting available in English.

up Reuse and exchange of questions and tests -
30 October 2003

Though the meeting itself and most of the online information about it is/was in Dutch, the slides are available in English. You can download the presentation I did about the  QTI quickscan here (PDF-file in ZIP, 677 kB) and the Canvas Learning Player I demonstrated you can download here (IMS CP in ZIP-file, 109 kB). All other presentations are available from this webpage. There is a short report on the meeting NL flag available, but only in Dutch. 

up D1 Status Report on research 'state-of-theart' and the European situation as compared to North America -
June 2003

The document presents the findings of a survey conducted by the Time2Learn partners recording and assessing the current state-of-the-art in the field of eLearning, both on national and European level. Moreover, a comparison between the European situation and North America is included. Now available from the OUNL DSpace system.

up Quickscan QTI - June 2003

In June 2003, De Digitale Universiteit (Dutch Digital University) performed a quickscan to determine the usability of the IMS Question and Test Interoperability (QTI) specification as a format to store questions and tests developed for and by the consortium. The quickscan was carried out by me and the original report is available in Dutch from the website of De Digitale Universiteit. The QTI test files (ZIP-file 1128 kB) and an unofficial English translation (PDF-file, 1850 kB) of the report are available online. 

up UK/NL Study Trip Conference - April 2003

The UK/NL Study Trip 2003 was the return trip of the UK Studytrip 2002. About forty colleagues from the UK visited the Netherlands from 7 till 11 April. During the one-day closing conference I presented a workshop together with Bill Olivier (CETIS) and Peter Sloep (OUNL/Fontys) titled From Learning Technology Specifications to Interoperability. Sorry, no slides available online.

up Edutrip 2002 

In 2002, together with Ineke Lam (University of Utrecht), I coordinated the Eduguides for the Edutrip 2002 and edited the resulting report they wrote about the trip. The report is available in Dutch and English online as PDF-file.

up UK Study trip 2002

From April 21st till April 27th 2002 SURF Educatie<F> organised a study trip to Scotland and England. Of course that resulted in a report (PDF-file,  909 kB) op. I co-authored a couple of the sections.

up CETIS EC-SIG - 2002/2003

The Special Interest Group (SIG) meetings of the CETIS (centre for educational technology interoperability standards) organisation are always worth wile. During our first visit at the EC-SIG (Educational Content Special Interest Group) meeting in March 2002 we did a presentation about the ELO project van de Digitale Universiteit. Since then there are close contacts with the CETIS SIGs and the people involved within CETIS.

up Edutrip 2001

In 2001, I was one of the Eduguides during the Edutrip and author of the chapter about Maintaining Digital Order in the report from the trip (PDF-file).

Contact

Fontys University of Professional Education

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