Alexander Renkl
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Alexander Renkl, Prof. Dr.
Departmant of Psychology
Educational Psychology
University of Freiburg
Engelbergerstr. 41
79085 Freiburg
GERMANY
Tel.: ++49 (0)761 203-3003,
Fax: ++49 (0)761 203-3100
E-Mail: renkl@uni-freiburg.de
Short Vita
Prof. Dr. Alexander Renkl holds the chair for Educational Psychology at the University of Freiburg, Germany (since 1999). He studied Psychology at the Universities of Aachen and Marburg and worked as doctoral student at the Max-Planck-Institute for Psychological Research, Munich. He earned his doctorate at the University of Heidelberg (Dr. phil., 1991) and qualified as a University lecturer at the University of Munich (Dr. phil. habil. 1997). Before his positon in Freiburg, he was Professor of Eudcational Psychology at the Educational University of Schwäbisch-Gmünd (1997-1999). Alexander Renkl is involved in a variety of national and international research cooperations such as the DFG Special Priority Programs on "Net-based Knowledge Communication in Groups" and on "The Educational Quality of Schools", the Dutch-German project "Affordances for learning in multimedial learning enviroments", and the Pittsburgh-Science-of-Learning-Center project "Does learning from examples improve tutored problem solving."
Research Interests
Prof. Dr. Alexander Renkl research work focuses on cognitive learning processes, example-based learning, net-based learning and communication, learning by writing, learning with multiple representations, and mathematics learning.
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