University of Salzburg

Director, European Centre, Z-GIS

Other Affiliations: EUROGEO, Geography

National Teaching Fellow

About

Karl Donert is a senior academic with extensive experience in educational development in higher education and in a teaching-led, research-informed context. He is a geographer who is an an expert in learning and teaching with particular specialisation in academic networking and developing research and development partnerships, the effective pedagogies in higher education as well as in the use of new technologies including uses of elearning.

He has a national and international profile in his specialist areas and has a strong track record in leading major international and university activities. Karl is recognised as an outstanding teacher, a national leader in learning and teaching, as demonstrated by his National Teaching Fellowship. He has initiated and led significant professional networks and communities of practice including the large international higher education network that he coordinates (HERODOT http://www.herodot.net). He is researching professional development through international networks and networking in higher education.

Recent research interests are based around the uses of GeoInformation in education, as he is the external evaluator to the iGuess (GeoInformation in several subjects - www.iguess.eu) and ALAC (Active Learning, Active Citizenship - http://extra.shu.ac.uk/alac/) Projects. Particular developments he is involved in include developing 'spatial citizenship' as an educational construct for all.   

Karl is President of EUROGEO (www.eurogeography.eu) the European Association of Geographers. This organisation was established in 1979 in collaboration with the European Commission. Since 1987 it has had participatory status in the Council of Europe. EUROGEO is the maker of the Geocube (www.geo-cube.eu) a tool to promote what Geography is and geographers do.

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