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Research

I’m a Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Applied Educational Sciences of the Research Unit on Education, Culture, Cognition and Society of the Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education of the University of  Luxembourg.

Research Interests

• Educational Technology
• Learning Sciences

Current Research

• PIAF: Développement de la pensée informatique et algorithmique dans l’enseignement fondamental (2018-2021) coordinated by Université de Liège (Belgium) and funded by Erasmus+ Programme – Key Action 2: Innovation and good practices (Strategic Partnerships);
• European Center for Competence and Resources in Border Studies (2018-2020) coordinated by Dr Christian Wille (Université du Luxembourg) and funded by Interreg VA Grande Région;
• CDG4E: Create Digital Games for Education (2017-2020) coordinated by MITA (Malta) and funded by Erasmus+ Programme – Key Action 2: Innovation and good practices (Strategic Partnerships);
• Current Educational Technology Policies, Strategies, Theories & Practices in Luxembourg

Past Research

• Tell Your Town (development of mobile learning app) coordinated by Marcus Haberkorn (Hochschule Trier) and funded by Nikolaus Koch Stiftung, Trier; SCRIPT/MENJE, Luxembourg; Ministerium für Bildung Rheinland-Pfalz, Mainz (2015-2018)
• The digital literacy and multimodal practices of young children (DigiLitEY): ISCH COST Action IS1410 (2015-2018)
• SciPol:Lux: Science Education, Innovation, and Policy in Modern Luxembourg (2014-2017) – coordinated by Prof. Dr Christina Siry and funded by Université du Luxembourg
• Current Educational Technology Policies, Strategies, Theories & Practices in Luxembourg
  • Project “edusphere” of the Ministry of Education
  • Project “digital learning” of the Lycée Hubert Clement Esch-Alzette
  • Project “mobile learning” of the Lycée Technique de Bonnevoie
  • Survey on the uses of iPads in Kindergarten classes with Technolink, Ville de Luxembourg
  • Survey on the uses of ICT in Education in Luxembourg with SCRIPT & ADQS
• Development of a moOC on “Text and Context” for the UL’s Bachelor en Cultures Européennes – English studies with Agnès Prüm & Shahed Parnian
• ICT-Enriched Learning & Assessment of Spreadsheet Skills with Serge Dondelinger (Travail de candidature)
• ICT-Enriched Assessment of “Global Competences” for PISA 2018
• Incentives and Gaming Environments for Automobile Routing (I-GEAR): FNR-CORE (01.05.2012-01.05.2015) – more about the project
• ICT-Enriched Assessment & Learning of Science Literacy
• Numerical & Spatial Cognition: Developmental Issues (NUMSPACE2)
• Numerus Clausus: Student Selection Procedures
• Assessment of ICT Literacy in pre-service teacher students
• Needs analysis for an “e-Learning for Languages” project (Quattropole)
• Implicit Learning and Visual Attention (Ph.D. Thesis)
• Sex differences in spatial cognition (Master Thesis)