Olimpius Istrate

Universitatea din Bucuresti, Bucuresti, .

E-mail: trimite un mesaj.

Pagina web a instituţiei: http://www.unibuc.ro
Pagina web personala: http://www.elearning.ro

Nascut(a) in: 1976

Interese: educatie, pedagogie, elearning

Detalii:
A lucrat în cadrul Institutului de ştiinţe ale Educaţiei în perioada 2002-2004, ca cercetator în Departamentul Curriculum. Specializarea pe domeniile elearning şi instruire asistatã de calculator i-au permis sã susţinã activitatea specificã a Institutului – de cercetare-acţiune –, în aria utilizãrii computerului în procesul didactic.
În ultimii ani, a participat cu prezentãri la diverse conferinţe şi seminarii naţionale, organizate de SNSPA, Academia de Studii Economice, Institutul de ştiinţe ale Educaţiei, Fundaţia Universitarã a Mãrii Negre, Universitatea Spiru Haret etc. Temele abordate au fost: elearning, instruire asistata de calculator, managementul cunoaşterii, învãţãmântul deschis şi la distanţã.

Details:
He has extensive background in Pedagogy, graduating the Education Sciences profile within the University of Bucharest, Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, and then receiving his master degree in Educational Management and Evaluation. He is enrolled in a PhD on Evaluating eLearning Programmes, within the same faculty.

Presently, he is a teaching assistant at University of Bucharest – Teacher Training Department (Pedagogy and Computer Assisted Teaching courses) and associate researcher at the Institute for Education Sciences.

Meanwhile, he is education manager at Academia Online Romania. Therefore, the concern for education theories and computer-assisted instruction is combined with practical aspects, presently doing also research in the field of formative use of computer in education, within programmes developed by TEHNE - Centre for Innovation and Development in Education. Recently, he worked as a consultant for the World Bank in preparing the study "Implementation of ICTs in formal education".

The experience in the field of Pedagogy and elearning is demonstrated by participation within various projects and programmes, collaborating with institutions such as UNESCO-IITE (Institute for Information Technology in Education), British Council Romania, the Ministry of Education and Research, National Foundation for Community Development etc.

Publicații selectate:

* Luciana-Simona Velea, Olimpius Istrate, L'educazione nel post-comunismo: il caso romeno, Societa Editrice Internazionale, Francesca Gobbo, Le scuole degli altri. Le riforme scolastiche nell'Europa che cambia, 2006.

* Luciana-Simona Velea, Olimpius Istrate, National Report on Teacher Training in Romania, University of Ljubljana, Pavel Zgaga, The Prospects of Teacher Education in South-east Europe, 2006.

* Olimpius Istrate, Gabriela Noveanu, Thomas Smith, Exploring sources of variation in Romanian science achievement., Springer Netherlands, Prospects, Volume 36, Number 4 / December, 2006, 2006.