Christian Stracke

Dr. Christian M. Stracke is Associate Professor for Open Education and Innovation at the Welten Institute of the Open University of the Netherlands (www.ou.nl/web/welten-institute) and ICDE Chair in OER recently elected and appointed by the ICDE Board. In addition, he is Advisory Professor at the East China Normal University (ECNU) in Shanghai, and Adjunct Professor at the Korea National Open University (KNOU) in Seoul.

As an internationally recognized expert and innovator, his main working fields are Open Education, technology-enhanced learning, educational policies and philosophy, learning innovations and quality, impact assessment and competence modeling. He holds a PhD in Economics (Dr. rer. pol.) from the University of Duisburg-Essen and a Magister Artium (M.A.) in Educational Sciences from the University of Bonn.

He has founded and established ICORE, the International Community for Open Education and Research (www.ICORE-online.org) and is Conference Chair of LINQ, the annual international conference on Learning Innovations and Quality (www.learning-innovations.eu).

He has gained extensive experience (> 20 years of business and research in HR and E-Learning) in leading large scale projects and research teams (e.g., as Managing Director of TELIT) and in consulting and supporting institutions and public authorities to develop long-term policies and to improve learning innovations and quality. Many research projects (100+, > 50 Mio EUR) were and are coordinated and supervised by him.

His latest news online at: www.opening-up.education and on twitter: @ChrMStracke.