
Knowledge manager at KBC
Brussels Area, Belgium

Knowledge manager at KBC
Brussels Area, Belgium
I work in the field of knowledge management at KBC (ICT Services) in Leuven. My main tasks involve nonformal and informal learning processes, collaboration tools and methods for IT professionals in the company, and on providing novel technologies for a new generation professionals in a networked company and society.
Before my career in the financial world, I was active in the field of e-learning at an institute for higher education and within the Association Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. My main activities focused on the support of the campus management with regards to policies about technology-enhanced learning, and supporting faculty members with regards to instructional design.
At the Flemish Department of Education (Division for Adult Education) I was responsible for the communication between the department and the e-learning outsourcer for BIS Online (the official online distance education program of the Flemish Government), and responsible for the CVO-Online network. In this network, the Flemish schools for adult education can use the Learning Management System of the Department for their e-learning experiments.
From July 2007 to November 2008 I worked at the Flemish Department of Education in the Division for Policy Coordination. My work focused on policies with regards to life long learning, distance learning and technology in education in general.
My main interests go to knowledge management and technology, e-learning, distance learning and other forms of educational innovation and training. I am also interested in technology and more specifically how the internet has revolutionised the way we live, work, consume and have fun.
Finally, I find it important that our educational and training system adapts itself to the millenium generation of students and employees, and in particular that we make everyone more skilled in various information literacies.
Knowledge management, social network analysis,
e-learning, life long learning, learning standards, computer supported collaborative learning, distance education, in-service teacher training, web2, social software, wikinomics, long tail, open educational resources, information literacy, millenium students, digital natives
(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
August 2009 — Present (5 months)
The Telenet foundation is a non-for-profit organisation funded by Telenet. Its main aim is to reduce the digital divide by awarding funding to selected projects.
As a member of the board of directors, I help evaluate the different project proposals.
(Public Company; KBC; Banking industry)
October 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)
I am working as a knowledge manager for the IT professionals in KBC bank. My main activities involve tools and techniques for informal and nonformal learning and knowledge sharing, social network analysis, and implementing novel technologies for professionals in a networked company and flat world.
(Public Company; Publishing industry)
2007 — Present (2 years )
I am a member of the editorial review board for the magazine "ICT en onderwijsvernieuwing" (ICT and educational innovation). My main activities involve proofreading, reviewing manuscripts, finding new authors for innovation topics surrounding educational innovation and educational technologies in particular.
(E-Learning industry)
April 2005 — Present (4 years 9 months)
Together with a team of 10+ Flemish edubloggers, we maintain the group weblog "www.edublogs.be".
(Government Administration industry)
July 2007 — November 2008 (1 year 5 months)
Supporting the Flemish Minister of Education with regards to policies on life long learning, e-learning in higher and adult learning, and technology in education in general.
(Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Research industry)
September 2001 — November 2008 (7 years 3 months)
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)
January 2007 — October 2008 (1 year 10 months)
I am an associate lecturer for the O.U. distance learning course "H804 Implementing Open, Online and Distance Learning". I coach small groups of distance learners at the O.U., manage discussion forums, grade assignments and final project reports.
(Government Agency; E-Learning industry)
October 2003 — July 2007 (3 years 10 months)
(Educational Institution; E-Learning industry)
April 2003 — 2007 (4 years )
E-coach for the in-service teacher training program "ELISE - didactical and methodical aspects of e-learning"
(Educational Institution; Research industry)
September 1997 — September 2001 (4 years 1 month)
tertiary education , Chinese , 2002 — 2003
tertiary education , Master in Communication Technology , 2002 — 2003
tertiary education , Russian , September 1997 — June 2002
Ph.D. , Physics , September 1993 — September 2001
Specialisation: Nanotechnology, Scanning Probe Microscopy.
Laboratory for Solid State Physics and Magnetism.
high school , Latin - Mathematics , September 1987 — June 1993
innovative technologies, digital photography, social software, blogs, internet trends, e-learning, gadgets, knowledge management, collaboration tools
ELISE
Best oral presentation at the annual meeting of the Belgian Physics Society - 2001; awarded with a sponsored visit to the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge.