Mathy Vanbuel

Mathy Vanbuel has many years of experience in the production of educational multimedia and the development of technology solutions in the domain of education, training and culture. As a cinematographer, director and head of educational multimedia production of the AVNET and later as a director/senior consultant with Ecotec Research and Consulting, Brussels he was involved as coordinator or partner in numerous research projects within the European Commission Research Frameworks.

Since 1999 he is managing co-director of ATiT, a Belgian SME involved in the integration of appropriate technologies to support teaching and learning in projects worldwide. Within ATiT, he is managing the production of educational multimedia materials and the design and building of ICT-based solutions for training, teaching and learning.

Mathy is Visiting Lecturer eLearning at KHLIM in the InterFaculty (Maastricht). He also works regularly as an expert, consultant and evaluator in the areas of education and ICT for various institutions worldwide: World Bank, UNESCO, DFID, European Commission, European Space Agency, Parliament of Flanders (Commission Digital Flanders) among others, on the implementation and evaluation of education and training. His expertise is most importantly in the domain of education technologies and eLearning (including game based learning), appropriate use of (multi)media in education, and finally in project management and Research & Technology Development methodology.

Mathy is co-founder and chairperson of the judging committee of the MEDEA Awards (Media in Education).

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