Lecture: Propositional MicroLearning and rapid content development

Short CV: Josef Smolle, Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. univ., qualified as a medical doctor in 1981 and as a dermatologist 1987 and became Associate Professor in 1988. 2006, he was appointed as Full Professor for New Media in Medical Education at the Institute of Medical Informatics, Medical University of Graz, Austria. He launched and developed the so-called Virtual Medical Campus as one of the first university-wide elearning platforms in Austria. From 2008 to 2016 Smolle served as rector of the Medical University of Graz. He has a track record of 280 publications with a cumulative impact factor of 460, more than 5000 citations and an h-index of 37. His main research topics today are instructional design, effectivity and efficiency in Microlearning.

Lecture: MicroLearning in Medical Continuing Ed: Case Studies in European Union

Short CV: Peter A. Bruck, Prof. Dr. PhD. MA, is CEO of KnowledgeFox GmbH as well as CEO and Chief Researcher of Research Studios Austria Forschungsgesellschaft mbH, Austria’s public-private research institution to bring technology innovations from universities into markets. Bruck is also honorary President of the International Center for New Media, Salzburg, which selects and promotes best practice in ICT applications and multimedia contents. Bruck directs furthermore the World Summit Award in the framework of the United Nations process of the Summit on the Information Society.

Short CV: Bernhard Göschlberger, MLBT MSc BSc, is researcher and software developer at the Research Studios Austria FG (RSA FG). He is head of the MobileKnowledgeLab in Linz, a facility of the Research Studio MicroLearning and Information Environments (MINE). His research focus is on technology enhanced learning with a special interest in microlearning, social learning, learning analytics and data protection.

Short CV: Allan Hanbury, Priv. Doz. B.Sc. M.Sc. Ph.D., is Senior Researcher at the TU Wien, Austria. He is coordinator of the EU-funded KConnect Innovation Action on technology for analysing medical text, and coordinator of the CHIST-ERA project MUCKE on credibility of and search in multimodal data and social networks. He was scientific coordinator of the EU-funded KHRESMOI Integrated Project on medical and health information search and analysis, and coordinator of the EU-funded VISCERAL project on evaluation of algorithms on big data. He was leader of the Evaluation, Integration and Standards work package of the MUSCLE EU Network of Excellence, and has led a number of Austrian national projects. His research interests include data science, information retrieval, multimodal information retrieval, and the evaluation of information retrieval systems and algorithms.

Short CV: Christian Kittl, DI Dr., is CEO at evolaris next level GmbH, Austria’s leading R&D centre focusing on business model & technology innovations for the Connected Life, where he has been working since 2000. He holds a master degree in telematics from the Graz University of Technology, received his PhD in business administration from Karl-Franzens-University and authored more than 50 publications.

Short CV: Elke Lackner, MMag. Dr., is an educational technologist at the University of Graz. She gives lectures at the University of Graz, at the Universities of Applied Sciences in Carinthia and Burgenland and at different universities of teacher education in Austria. Her research focuses on educational technologies, language teaching methodology and comparative literature. She can be contacted via mail (elke.lackner@uni-graz.at) or via Twitter (@lacknere).

Short CV: Stefanie Lindstaedt, Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Inf. Dr., Scientific Head of the Know-Center, Graz; Head of the Knowledge Technologies Institute (KTI), Technical University of Graz. Research focus on information and knowledge management, professional and community learning, knowledge technologies, soft computing approaches (e.g., associative networks, machine learning), semantic approaches (e.g., semantic web, semantic services) and human-computer interaction.

Short CV: For over 25 years Martin Riemer has been involved in medical 3D-image processing research. Since 2003 he has concentrated on teaching Medical Computer Science and helped setting up eLearning at the University Medical Centre
Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), together with a group of eLearning activists. His special interest is the creation and use of Virtual Patients. Being involved in teaching medical students in both real and virtual environments and software engineering he is familiar with pedagogical as well as technical aspects of eLearning.