Hans De Four

Current

• Founder at iTESE
• Coordinator at KlasCement

Past

• Educational advisor at Microsoft
• Teacher & ICT coordinator at OLV College campus Bevegem

Education

• Universiteit Gent
• OLV College campus Bevegem

Recommended

2 people have recommended Hans

Connections

331 connections

Industry

E-Learning

Websites

• My Website
• My Website
• My Blog

Hans De Four’s Summary

Addicted to internet/ict/web2.0 and the possibilities of it in education.
Involved in different organisations concerning the promotion of the use of ict in education in Belgium and abroad.
Promotor of exchanging Learning Resources in Education.
Organisor of different ict-events in Flanders.
Speaker at trainings and conferences.
Involved in projects about creative commons, open source, open standards (but also Apple, Microsoft, ... as long as the solution supports ict in education).
Webmaster.
Creative designer.
Entertainer of teachers, digitally.

Hans De Four’s Specialties:

The great motivator ;-)

Hans De Four’s Experience

• Founder

  iTESE

  (E-Learning industry)

  September 2000 — Present (9 years 3 months)

  iTESE is providing ict Tools Events Sites in Education.
  It's all about supporting teachers using ICT in their lessons.
  One of our main events is www.ictdag.be, an ICT-day for 700 to 1400 teachers, ICT-coordinators, advisors, ... People can choose out of 100 ICT-workshops. There's an ICT-fair and some alternative leisure.
  We organise this twice a year.

• Coordinator

  KlasCement

  (E-Learning industry)

  May 1998 — Present (11 years 7 months)

  KlasCement is the educational portal of the Dutch speaking part of Belgium.
  
  Mission
  
  • Exchanging educational material and examples for class and school use. User-generated!
  • Promoting cooperation between teachers, principals, ICT-coordinators, students, …
  • Stimulating the pedagogical use of ICT
  
  Target groups
  
  • Primary education
  • Secondary education
  • Teacher training

• Educational advisor

  Microsoft

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

  September 2001 — August 2006 (5 years )

  Coordinator of the project Anytime Anywhere Learning about school-use of laptops.
  Supporting the use of ICT in education by teacher training, stimulating collaboration between educational companies and schools, organising regional and national days about ICT in education.

• Teacher & ICT coordinator

  OLV College campus Bevegem

  (Education Management industry)

  September 1994 — June 2004 (9 years 10 months)

Hans De Four’s Education

• Universiteit Gent

  Master , Mathematics - ICT , 1990 — 1994

• OLV College campus Bevegem

  1984 — 1990

Additional Information

Hans De Four’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Website
• My Blog

Hans De Four’s Interests:

Education, Innovation, Creativity, ICT, Travel, Traveling, African music, Djembé, Art, Movies, Theatre, Music festivals, Music

Hans De Four’s Groups:

•    "ADA - Empowering youth and women towards ICT"
•    E-Marketing Belgium
•    Benelux Event Professionals - by eventplanner.be /.nl
•    Alumni Universiteit Gent
•    Green
•    Alumni OLV College campus Bevegem
•    Living/working in Gent
•    European Schoolnet Group
•    ICT Onderwijs
•    KlasCement
•    Twunch.be
•    EduTubePLus

Hans De Four’s Honors:

Clickx: Silver Award for KlasCement (2000)
Dikikids: Prize with Eduring (1998)
Digikids: First prize with KlasCement (2000)
CST: ICT-pioneer of the year (2003)
Start-up Madrid: 'Prize of the public' with KlasCement (2007)
World Summit Award: Prize E-learning Belgium with KlasCement (2007)

Hans De Four’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• job inquiries
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
• getting back in touch