Piet van der Zanden
Education Expert AV-IT in Learning Spaces, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Dr Piet van der Zanden is an education expert with special focus on AV-IT issues in teaching and learning spaces. He has an instigating role in the design and development of education facilities and advises about audio-visual, pedagogical, ergonomic and technical issues and is involved in feasibility and usability studies. Piet has devised the four-quadrant pedagogy, which is facilitated by a quad signal presentation system combined with an interactive smartboard. He does training and evaluation and discusses pedagogical approaches that come within reach because of it. A challenge for the years to come are hybrid classrooms to bridge physical and virtual students in one and the same class and its related teaching skills. Significant topics are; connected collaborative practices, interactive live channels and streaming content over campus networks.