Christian Kohls

Christian Kohls is member of the research unit “Design and Implementation of Integrative Learning Environments” at the Knowledge Media Research Center, Teubingen. Christian Kohls has been working at the Knowledge Media Research Center since 2005. His job is the technical development of the German information and qualification portal e-teaching.org. He is also responsible for editing the content section “media technology” and gives frequently online trainings in e-learning software. He studied media and computer science and received a M.Sc. He worked in the e-learning team of the University of Applied Sciences Wedel/Hamburg and as consultant at pharus53 software solutions where he implemented multilingual WBT solutions and software tutorials. He is inventor and development coordinator of moowinx, an end user tool to create interactive graphics. His research interests include information visualization and the mining of design patterns. He is writing his PhD thesis about mental and conceptual representations of patterns.

Publications

Investigations of E-Learning Patterns: Context Factors, Problems and Solutions
Investigations of E-Learning Patterns: Context Factors, Problems and Solutions
Christian Kohls, Joachim Wedekind. © 2011. 344 pages.
Design patterns have become popular in the domains of architecture, software design, human computer interaction, Web 2.0, organizational structures, and pedagogy as a way to...
Perspectives on Patterns
Perspectives on Patterns
Christian Kohls, Joachim Wedekind. © 2011. 18 pages.
Patterns are systematic approaches to documenting and classifying recurrent problems and their solutions. Patterns are usually based on empirical observations of good practices....
Patterns as an Analysis Framework to Document and Foster Excellent E-Learning Designs
Patterns as an Analysis Framework to Document and Foster Excellent E-Learning Designs
Christian Kohls. © 2011. 22 pages.
Patterns capture whole forms of good design. The question is, what makes a part whole and how can we analyze complex situations into self-contained patterns that can be re-used...