Gernold Frank
Projectleader, University of Applied Sciences Berlin, Germany
Gernold Frank is Professor emeritus for Human Resources and Organizational Behaviour at the Business School for Economics and Law, University of Applied Sciences Berlin (HTW Berlin; since 1995). He was Program Director Bachelor/Undergraduate `International Business´ and head of eLCC –the universities eLearning competence center. He was co-founder and head of Master/Graduate `Labour- and Human Resource-Management´ (launch: Oct 2010). Until 1994 and between 1999-2002 he worked for the Dresdner Bank AG, D-Frankfurt on Main, CorporateCenter Personnel. Among other activities he was responsible for creating and implementation of a new company-wide appraisal system and he created a personnel development system for young professionals with high potential. From 1999 – 2002 he has had a sabbatical for the Bank in the field of `NewMedia in HR Management´ with two remarkable projects: (1) HR eCommerce and (2) PROSIPS (soft factors for success based on an own Balanced Score Card). From 1991-2000 he was academic advisor of LaSalle-corporate university, D-Frankfurton Main. He was member of a National Expert Group for `Learning-Working-Competence-Innovation´ (International Monitoring Project-RWTH Aachen/D) and he still is member of the Academic Board for the studying programmes `Bachelor International Business´ and `Master International Management´ (HTW Berlin) as well as for the QUADRIGA-HR Management&Leadership Program. Research projects with focus on online-education: eCompetence Project (2004-2012 at HTW); “Interactive tv in training for small and medium sized enterprises” (LEONARDO-Project 2005-2008); “Teaching and Learning Technoloy Center - TLTC” (PALOMITA-Project 2006-2008); "Home Care Health System & eLearning" (IFAF 2011-2014). Actual research activities as well as various contibutions are in the field of `Blended & Informal Learning", "Learning Analytics" and further education for "(Strategic) Workforce Planning with Blended Learning".