ITHET - Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training

The advances in technologies of our time have changed the educational landscape lastingly and continue to have an enormous influence on the alterations of teaching. Multimedia is becoming more and more present and integrated into education. In 2002, the UNESCO Chair on Mechatronics of Bogazici University, Istanbul, launched the ITHET conference series in order to exchange ideas on the latest technologies and technical advances.

This year’s 18th Internation Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training (ITHET) took place from 26 – 27 September 2019 at the campus of the University of Applied Sciences Magdeburg-Stendal (location: Magdeburg) subsequent to the ICWL conference. Both conferences were organized by the research group SPiRIT under the direction of Prof. Michael A. Herzog and actively supported by the scientific assistants Leonore Franz and Veronika Weiß. 72 scientists from 26 countries seized the opportunity to exchange information on the use of technically supported teaching for the storage, dissemination and transfer of accumulated knowledge. At the conference, the requirements for an appropriate use of the technical possibilities of new technologies were presented and the participants were able to consult and discuss about modernized learning environments and the resulting alterations in university teaching.

Interesting contributions on topics such as graduate competencies of the future and control as well as improving student teamwork were presented by this year’s keynote speaker Keith Bowman (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, US), the internationally renowned head of higher education, researcher and entrepreneur Janusz A. Koziński from Brock University in Canada and Mathew W. Ohland, Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University in Indiana, US.

This year, IEETel 2019 and PRASAE 2019 took place parallel to ITHET as corresponding workshops.

More information can be found on http://www.ithet.boun.edu.tr.