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Prof. Dr. Nicolas Apostolopoulos

Head of CeDiS, Project Controlling, Projects with External Funding, Cooperation with other Institutions

Ihnestr. 24 — Room 101
14195 Berlin

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E-Mail: napo@cedis.fu-berlin.de

Personal Data

1. Curriculum Vitae
2. Career
3. Teaching
4. Research
5. Scientific Work
6. Memberships
7. Management of Externally Funded Projects
8. Awards
9. Links
10. Current Collaboration Projects
11. Publications

1. Curriculum Vitae

1948	Born in Athens, Greece
1967-1973	Studied Business Management at the Freie Universität Berlin
1973-1975	Research assistant at the EDPC of the Freie Universität Berlin
1975-1978	Studied Computer Science at the Technische Universität Berlin
1976-1981	Research assistant at the Freie Universität Berlin
1982	PhD at the Dept. of Business Studies of the Freie Universität Berlin
1982-1988	Responsible for DP at the Dept. of Business Studies of the Freie Universität Berlin
1989-1997	Head of the Dept. of Business Studies’ EDPC at the Freie Universität Berlin
1998-2001	Director of the Center for Digital Systems (CeDiS), ZUV-VIII of the Freie Universität
since 2002	Director of the Competence Center e-Learning / Multimedia at the Freie Universität Berlin
since 2008	Honorary professor at the Dept. of Educational Science and Psychology of the Freie Universität Berlin, Faculty for Media Pedagogy

2. Career

1970-1973	Student assistant at the EDPC of the Freie Universität Berlin: Software development for Scientific Computing and Libraries
1973-1975	Research assistant at the EDPC of the Freie Universität Berlin: Responsible for the areas compiler, symbolic languages, operating systems, statistic software, advisory boards and committee work
1975-1981	Research Assistant at the Dept. of Business Studies of the Freie Universität Berlin, Institute for Statistics and Econometrics: Teaching and research duties in the area DP/Business IT and information systems, setting up an online IT infrastructure for the dept., research in the fields of program development (PhD), studied theoretical Information Science
1982	PhD in the field of program structures, their visualization and implementation for program development (summa cum laude); independent teaching of courses and seminars in the discipline of Business IT
1982-1988	Setting up a IT infrastructure network for the Dept. of Business Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin (PCs, mini-PCs, IT network), setting up and operating the first CIP-Pool and the first WAP-Pool for scientists and academics of the Freie Universität (external funding projects (federal govt., industry)); advisory boards and committee work (responsible for DP, Technical Commission of the ZEDAT); independent teaching of courses and seminars in the discipline of Business IT (programming languages, system analysis, software engineering)
1989-1997	Establishment, set-up and Managing Director of the decentralized service facility "Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Rechenzentrum (WRZ - Dept. of Business Studies’ EDPC)" at the Freien Universität Berlin, setting up the first fully operational network for teaching, research and administration within the dept., comprehensive supply within the dept. with network workstations and PCs, integrating and managing projects with external funding in the field of software distribution, network computing, multimedia network systems (federal govt., industry); advisory boards and committee work (responsible for DP, Technical Commission of the ZEDAT, DFN - National Research and Education Network); independent teaching of courses and seminars in the discipline of Business IT (programming languages, system analysis, software engineering, CSCW)
1998-2001	Establishment, set-up and Managing Director of Division VIII of the Central University Administration of the Freie Universität Berlin (ZUV-VIII: Center for Digital Systems (CeDiS)): Migration of the centralized and decentralized IT working areas, organizing ZUV-VIII as a central IT dept. for operative IT systems (HIS, SAP, office communication), drafting and implementing an IT strategy for the administrative DP, introducing SAP to Human Resources; broadening the research activities in the field of multimedia/e-learning, procuring and managing joint e-learning research projects (BMBF – Federal Ministry of Education and Research), advisory boards and committee work
since 2002	Establishment, set-up and Managing Director of the Competence Center e-Learning/ Multimedia of the Freie Universität Berlin: Drafting of a university-wide strategy for e-learning at the Freie Universität, introduction of a central LMS and CMS as well as central multimedia services, introduction of e-publishing; procuring e-learning projects (FUeL) that are externally funded, organization of scientific conferences and academic symposia, setting up intl. cooperation networks, member of the executive board of the university
since 2008	Honorary professor at the Dept. of Educational Science and Psychology of the Freie Universität Berlin, Faculty for Media Pedagogy

3. Teaching

Algorithms and Data Structures
Programming
Business IT
Internet Technology
e-Learning Fundamentals
Collaborative Learning
Development of e-Learning Applications
Implementing e-Learning within Universities

Current course (winter term 2009/2010) at Freie Universität Berlin
Department of Education and Psychology
"Analysieren und Beurteilen von Lehr- und Lernprozessen beim Einsatz elektronischer Medien" (in German)

4. Research

Integrated Network e-Learning Environments
Didactic Aspects of Multimedia Teaching and Learning
Problem-Oriented e-Learning

5. Scientific Work

Spokesman for the workgroup e-learning in the Deutsches Forschungsnetz (DFN - National Research and Education Network)
Member of the Bertelsmann Foundation body of experts "University development through New Media"
Founding member of the Berlin Univers Society (development of e-learning strategies for the Berlin universities)
Professional consultant for the Leibniz Gesellschaft (field of media)
Professional consultant for the BMBF (field of new media in education)
Technical consultant at the GMW.2004 Conference
Chair of Scientific Committee, World Congress for Information Technology (WCIT 2004)
Organization and realization of the symposiums "e-Learning in basic statistics education" 2004
Organization and realization of the workshop "Efficient production of large e-learning content", Online Educa Berlin 2004
Organization and realization of the workshop "Implementing Large-scale Blended Learning at Universities", Online Educa Berlin 2005
Organization and management of the symposium "Advanced E-Learning@Berlin", 2006
Organization of the workshop "E-Learning in Berlin", Online Educa Berlin, Dec. 2006
Scientific Management and host at Freie Universität of the conference "GML² - Grundfragen Multimedialen Lehrens und Lernens" in 2008, 2009 and 2010
Scientific Management and host at Freie Universität of the internatinal conference "E-Learning 2009 - Lernen im Digitalen Zeitalter" (annual convention of GMW and GI) in September 2009
Numerous lectures and talks at professional conferences and scientific congresses

6. Memberships

Member of the e-Learning Steering Committee of the President’s Office at the Freie Universität
Member of the Heads of the Central IT Areas Committee of the Freie Universität
Member of the executive board of the Gesellschaft für Neue Medien in der Wissenschaft (GMW – Society for New Media in Science)
Member of advisory committee of the Alcatel-Lucent Stiftung-Verbundkolleg Berlin (Alcatel Lucent Stiftung - Joint Competence Center Berlin)
Member of the Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI – Society for IT)
Member of the Greek Operations Research Society (EEEE)

7. Management of Externally Funded Projects (Selection)

1986-1988	Project WAP: Workplace Computers in Science Setting up an IT infrastructure of network workstations and computers for scientific purposes, integration of network services for scientists, development of a new software environment for workstations of scientists and academics (external funding: IBM Deutschland GmbH)
1988-1990	Project ALF: Workplace Computers Teaching and Research Integration of workplace computers with teaching (CIP), research (WAP) and administration in a scientific network environment, development of cooperative work scenarios, server-based software systems (external funding: IBM Deutschland GmbH)
1990-1992	Project ASIA: Automated Software Distribution and Installation Development of a software system for automated software distribution and installation, development of customized as well as group-specific user interfaces (external funding: IBM Deutschland GmbH)
1994-1996	Project mmserv: Hypermedial Learning Units for Student Education Development of a hypermedial, interactive teaching system within a network environment, creating problem-based learning environments for the subjects Marketing (learning software ODI) and Public Economics (learning software IRS) (external funding: Deutsches Forschungsnetz (DFN - National Research and Education Network))
1997-2000	Project DIALEKT/DIALERN: Digital interactive lessons/learning units Development of hypermedial, interactive teaching and learning systems for large lectures and courses, creating a teaching and work environment for the subject Statistics (learning software Statistik interaktiv!) in cooperation with the universities of Bielefeld and Hamburg (external funding: Deutsches Forschungsnetz (DFN - National Research and Education Network))
2001-2004	Project Learning Net Creation of network environments for distributed development and implementation of e-learning applications, development and use of XML authoring tools as well as repositories for e-learning modules (distributed content production and implementation) in cooperation with the universities of Bielefeld, Hamburg, Würzburg and the TU Berlin (external funding: Deutsches Forschungsnetz (DFN - National Research and Education Network))
2001-2003	Project Neue Statistik (New Media in Education) Development of a comprehensive e-learning-based teaching and work environment for the subject Statistics, including a virtual statistics laboratory in cooperation with 10 German universities (external funding: BMBF - Federal Ministry of Education and Research)
2001-2004	Project New Economy Development of an e-learning-based MBA course for the subject New Economy (business, media/communication, information science) in cooperation with 6 German universities (external funding: BMBF - Federal Ministry of Education and Research)
2002-2007	Project Distributed Campus Development of a student portal for the "predeparture preparation" of foreign students in cooperation with the US universities of Stanford, Duke and Columbia, development of situative learning units for teaching German (external funding: DAAD – German Academic Exchange Service)
2005-2008	Project FU E-Learning: FUEL Development and expansion of the university-wide e-learning infrastructure for the Freie Universität, setting up a student portal, integration of e-learning into the IT system landscape of the university, development of quality enhancement instruments (external funding: BMBF - Federal Ministry of Education and Research)
since 2006	Project Visual History Archive: VHA (financed by Freie Universität Berlin) Providing access to the Visual History Archive of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education at the Freie Universität Berlin, technological and content-related user support, integration within teaching and research at the Freie Universität, coordination of collaboration projects, evaluating the user friendliness of the VHA
since 2007	Project Forced Labor 1939-1945 Development and expansion of an interactive online platform for research and teaching as well as for use in school education, digitization of interviews, producing biographical short films, development of teaching materials, cooperation with the Institute for East-European Studies of the Freie Universität Berlin with regard to the translation and scientific indexing as well as cataloguing of the interviews, collaboration partners: Stiftung "Erinnerung, Verantwortung und Zukunft" / Foundation "Remembrance, Responsibility and Future, Deutsches Historisches Museum Berlin / German Historical Museum Berlin (external funding: Stiftung EVZ - Foundation "Remembrance, Responsibility and Future")
since 2008	Project Witnesses of the Shoah: The Visual History Archive in School Education Development and producing teaching materials and scenarios, providing access to a computer lab for school classes, accompaniment and supervision of school pupils when working with the Archive, teacher training (external funding: Stiftung Deutsche Klassenlotterie Foundation Berlin)

8. Awards

1982: summa cum laude für die Dissertation
1997: Digita 1997 for the e-learning product "ODI"
1998: Digita 1998 for the e-learning product "IRS"
2000: Digita 2000 for the e-learning product „Statistik interaktiv!“
2003: MedidaPrix 2003 for the e-learning product „Das Statistiklabor“
Top procurer of external funding at the Freie Universität in 2002
Top procurer of external funding at the Freie Universität in 2003

9. Links (Selection)

10. Current Collaboration Projects

Federal Foreign Office, section for the intl. diplomatic training
Berlin Consortium for German Studies (BCGS)
Charité – University Medicine Berlin, e-learning section
GRNET (Greek Research Network)
Institut für Bildung in der Informationsgesellschaft (IBI – Institute for Education in the Information Society), Technische Universität Berlin
IWM – Institut für Wissensmedien / Knowledge Media Research Center, University of Tübingen, project e-teaching.org
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

11. Publications (Selection)

Apostolopoulos, Nicolas (1984): „Die Strukturierung von Flussdiagrammen und ihre Auswirkungen auf die Programmentwicklung“ Haag + Herchen Verlag, Frankfurt am Main,1984, ISBN: 3881296573.

Apostolopoulos, N., Geukes, A., Zimmermann, S. (1996): „DIALEKT - Digitale Interaktive Lektionen in der Studentenausbildung“, in: DFN Mitteilungen, Heft 40, März 1996, S. 7-10 (herausgegeben vom Verein zur Förderung eines Deutschen Forschungsnetzes e.V.).

Apostolopoulos, N., Geukes, A., Zimmermann, S. (1996): „DIALECT: Hypermedia Lectures on Digital Networks”, Proceedings of JENC 7: 7th Joint European Networking Conference, Networking In The Information Society, Budapest, Hungary, May 13-16 1996, edited by P. Rendek, p. 272-1 to 272-9.

Apostolopoulos, N., Geukes, A., Zimmermann, S. (1996): „DIALECT: Digital Interactive Lectures in Higher Education, Proceedings of ED-TELECOM 96- World Conference on Educational Telecommunications, Boston, Mass., USA; June 17-22, 1996, Eudcational Telecommunications, 1996, edited by Patricia Carlson and Filiia Makedon, p. 11 – 18.

Apostolopoulos, N. et.al. (1996): „DIALEKT – Network – based digital interactive lectures“, in: Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, 28, 1996, S. 1873 – 1886.

Apostolopoulos, N. et.al. (1996): „DIALEKT – Hypermedia Learnware in der Universität“, in: Beste, Dieter und Kälke, Marion: Bildung im Netz. Auf dem Weg zum virtuellen Lernen. Berichte, Analysen, Argumente, VDI Verlag GmbH, Düsseldorf, 1996, S. 121 – 130.

Apostolopoulos, N. et.al. (1996): „Digitale Lektionen an der Universität. Multimedia auch in der Wissenschaft?“, in: IQ, Das Berliner Hochschulmagazin, 6. Jg. Ausgabe, 1/96 Februar, S. 18 – 19.

Apostolopoulos, N. et.al. (1996): „Multimedia im Elfenbeinturm: DIALEKT – Digitale Interaktive Lektionen in der Universität“, in: Handbuch Hochschullehre, Bonn, RAABE Fachverlag für Wissenschaftsinformation, Dezember 1996, B 1.12, S. 1 – 14.

Apostolopoulos, N., Behrens, G., Fungk, C., Hendricks, W. (1999): „Berlin univers. Machbarkeitsstudie für die Berliner Senatsverwaltung für Wirtschaft und Betriebe“, Mai 1999.

Geukes, A., Apostolopoulos, N., (2000): „Keine Angst vor Problemen! Aspekte zu Didaktik, Produktion und Einsatz multimedialer Lernsysteme“, in: Meuer, Hans W. (Hrsg.): PIK – Praxis der Informationsverarbeitung und Kommunikation, K.G. Saur Verlag, 23 (3), 2000.

Apostolopoulos, N., Bentlage, U., Eichhorn, D. R., Encarnação, J. L., Glotz, P., Glowalla, U. et al. (2001): „Zentrale Thesen des Expertenkreises“, in: Bertelsmann Stiftung & Heinz Nixdorf Stiftung (Hrsg.): Studium online: Hochschulentwicklung durch neue Medien, Bertelsmann Stiftung, Gütersloh, 2001, (S. 13–15).

Caumanns, J., Apostolopoulos, N., Geukes, A. (2001): „Computers are not Books”, CSS Journal – Computers in the Social Studies (2001), Nr. 1.

Apostolopoulos, N., Geukes, A., Zimmermann, S. (1997): „Neue Formen des Lernens“, in: wt – WerkstattechnikProduktion und Management, Springer VDI Verlag, 1/2-97 Jan./Febr., S. 41 – 45.

Apostolopoulos, Nicolas et. al. (2002): „Statistik Interaktiv: Deskriptive Statistkik“, Springer Verlag 2002, ISBN: 3-540-43062-8.

Geukes, A., Apostolopoulos, N. (2002): „Learning Net“, in DFN-Mitteilungen, Heft 58, 3/2002, S. 10 - 12 (herausgegeben vom Verein zur Förderung eines Deutschen Forschungsnetzes e.V.).

Juhnke, N., Haese, G., Apostolopoulos, N. (2003): „Learning Net – Aufbau einer eLearning-Infrastruktur“, in: J. von Knop, et.al. (Hrsg.), Security, E-Learning, E-Services, 17. DFN-Arbeitstagung über Kommunikationsnetze, p. 485-494.

Apostolopoulos, N., Juhnke, N. (2005): „FU eLearning (FUeL): Ein Konzept zur flächendeckenden Einführung des eLearning an der Freien Universität Berlin“, in: Fellbaum, K. (Hrsg.), Grundfragen Multimedialen Lehrens und Lernens, 3. Workshop GML², Shaker Verlag, Aachen, 2005, S. 25-34.

Apostolopoulos, N. (2007): "Strategien zur Einführung von E-Learning", in: Baumgartner, P./Reinmann G. (Hrsg.): „Überwindung von Schranken durch E-Learning“, Festschrift für Rolf Schulmeister, Band 1, Studienverlag, 2007.

Apostolopoulos, N., Juhnke, N.: e-Learning 2007: Perspektiven der Wertschöpfung. In: Rebensburg, K. (Hrsg.): Grundfragen Multimedialen Lehrens und Lernens, 5. Workshop GML² 2007.

Apostolopoulos, N., Rebensburg, K. (Hrsg.): Grundfragen Multimedialen Lehrens und Lernens. 6. und 7. Tagung GML 2007 und 2008. Universitätsverlag der TU Berlin, 2008.

Apostolopoulos, N., Mußmann, U., Rebensburg, K, Wulschke, F. (Hrsg.): Grundfragen Multimedialen Lehrens und Lernens: Bildungsimpulse und Bildungsnetzwerke. Tagungsband GML² 2009: Universitätsverlag der TU Berlin, 2009.

Apostolopoulos, N., Schwill, A. (Hrsg.): GI-Edition. Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI) - Proceedings. Lernen im Digitalen Zeitalter. DeLFI2009 – Die 7. E-Learning Fachtagung Informatik. Series of German Informatics Society (GI), Volume P-153, Köllen Druck+Verlag, 2009.

Apostolopoulos, N., Schwill, A. (Hrsg.): Lernen im Digitalen Zeitalter. Workshop-Band. Dokumentation der Pre-Conference zur DeLFI2009 – Die 7. E-Learning Fachtagung Informatik der Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V., Logos Verlag Berlin, 2009.

Apostolopoulos, N., Hoffmann, H., Mansmann, V., Schwill, A. (Hrsg.): E-Learning 2009 Lernen im digitalen Zeitalter. Reihe Medien in der Wissenschaft, Waxmannverlag, 2009.

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