Jürgen Handke

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Jürgen Handke giving a lecture at the University of St. Pölten

Jürgen Handke (born April 13, 1954 in Hanover ), English studies at the University of Marburg , has written several books in the fields of linguistics, language technology and e-education and has endeavored for years to use digital teaching, learning and examination scenarios in university teaching .

Life

Handke studied English, sport and philosophy for teaching at the University of Hanover between 1975 and 1980 and postgraduate linguistics at the University of Reading from 1981 to 1983 .

From 1981 to 1984 Handke was a research assistant in Hanover. In 1984 he received his doctorate there with a thesis on adverbial sentences in English under Ekkehard König . Between 1984 and 1991 he worked as a research assistant at the University of Wuppertal , where he wrote his habilitation thesis in 1990 with Gisa Rauh on the subject of "Natural Language Processing and Implementation in LISP " . Handke has been a professor at the University of Marburg since 1991. His main focus is on linguistics and digital teaching and testing.

Together with his team of academic staff and student assistants, he runs the Virtual Linguistics Campus, the world's largest learning platform for content in English and general linguistics. His YouTube channel “Virtual Linguistics Campus” contains hundreds of freely accessible self-produced teaching videos and is the largest of its kind. With other digital projects such as the Virtual Center for Teacher Education, an online portal in which several thousand Hessian teachers are permanently present further education from home, or the Language Index, a platform for the audio-supported comparison of the languages ​​of the world, in recent years he has improved teaching, exam formats and e. Some of the research in his subject has been radically adapted to the realities of the digital age.

Since 2014 Handke has been a member of the “Innovations in Learning and Examination Scenarios” group at the University Forum Digitization , initiated by the Center for University Development, University Rectors ' Conference and the Donors' Association , which is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research . Jürgen Handke has been experimenting with humanoid robots in teaching since mid-2017 as part of his federally funded research project HEART. Since October 2017, the robot Pepper has been accompanying him in his lectures. Handke is a member of several teaching award juries and a member of the structure committee for the newly founded University of Nuremberg.

Awards

Handke is the main German representative of the Inverted Classroom Model, with which he became the 2013 Hessian University Prize for Excellence in Teaching in the Mastery version. In 2015, he received the Ars legendi award for excellent university teaching from the German Stifterverband and the German Rectors' Conference, the highest German teaching award for “digital teaching and learning”. In 2016, Handke and the onCampus team from the Lübeck University of Applied Sciences received the German Adult Education Innovation Award for the MOOC # DEU4ARAB. In 2017 Handke received the “National OER Award” in the “University” category for its open bilingual course # FIT4UNI, a MOOC for Arabic-speaking migrants that facilitates access to the German higher education system.

Trivia

In addition to his academic work, Handke has been a musician since his youth and played in the 1970s with Matthias Jabs (later Scorpions ) and Hannes Folberth (later Eloy) in the band Deadlock .

From 1986 to 1987 Handke was President of the German Darts Association .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • Descriptive and Psycholinguistic Aspects of Adverbial Subordinate Clauses. Julius Groos Verlag, Heidelberg 1984, ISBN 3-87276-526-4 (dissertation, University of Hanover, 1984).
  • Speech processing with LISP and PROLOG on the PC. Vieweg, Wiesbaden 1987, ISBN 3-528-04570-1 .
  • Natural language: theory and implementation in LISP. McGraw-Hill, Hamburg 1989, ISBN 3-89028-164-8 .
  • The Structure of the Lexicon: Human versus Machine. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-11-014732-7 .
  • Multimedia with ToolBook and Macromedia Director. Oldenbourg, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-486-23972-4 .
  • Multimedia applications with Macromedia Director. Simple applications - complex presentations - CBT - multimedia on the Internet. Oldenbourg, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-486-25204-6 .
  • Multimedia on the Internet. Conception and implementation. Oldenbourg, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-486-27217-9 .
  • (with Anna Maria Schäfer) E-learning, e-teaching and e-assessment in university teaching: instructions. Oldenbourg, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-486-70800-4 .
  • Patient university teaching. Suggestions for contemporary teaching in the 21st century. Tectum, Marburg 2014. ISBN 978-3-8288-3256-5 .
  • Digital University Teaching Manual. Guide to modern and media-friendly teaching . Tectum, Marburg 2015. ISBN 978-3-8288-4495-7 . (3rd edition 2020).

editor

  • (with Peter Franke) The Virtual Linguistics Campus. Strategies and Concepts for Successful E-Learning . Waxmann, Münster 2006, ISBN 978-3-8309-1689-5 .
  • (with Alexander Sperl) The Inverted Classroom Model. Conference proceedings for the 1st German ICM Conference. Oldenbourg, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-486-71652-8 .
  • (with Natalie Kiesler and Leonie Wiemeyer) The Inverted Classroom Model. Conference proceedings for the 2nd German ICM Conference. Oldenbourg, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-486-74185-8 .
  • (with Eva Marie Großkurth) The Inverted Classroom Model. Conference proceedings for the 3rd German ICM Conference. de Gruyter, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-034417-2 .
  • (with Eva Marie Großkurth) The Inverted Classroom and Beyond. Conference proceedings for the 4th German ICM Conference. Tectum, Marburg 2015.
  • (with Sabrina Zeaiter) The Inverted Classroom and Beyond. Conference proceedings for the 6th German ICM conference. Tectum, Marburg 2017.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Homepage topic group innovations in learning and examination scenarios, accessed on April 2, 2016
  2. ↑ Hunanoid Emotional Assistant Robots in Teaching
  3. ↑ FAZ No. 245, 21./22. October 2017, p. C1.
  4. ↑ Jethro Tull Music by JH , employee website of Jürgen Handke on the web server of the Philipps University of Marburg, accessed on August 25, 2012.
  5. ↑ History of the board. In: German Darts Association. Retrieved January 2, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Handke, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Anglist
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover