From Bjoern Hassler

Selected publications and conference contributions

• B. Haßler, S. Hennessy, B. Lubasi, "Changing Classroom Practice using a School-Based Professional Development Approach to Introducing Digital Resources in Zambia", Itupale Online Journal of African Studies, Volume III, May 2011. Download pdf.
• Björn Haßler, Sara Hennessy, Tom Lord, Andrew Cross, Alan Jackson, Matthew Simpson, "Appropriate New Technologies to Support Interactive Teaching in Zambian schools (ANTSIT)". A joint report from Aptivate and the Centre for Commonwealth Education (University of Cambridge). Final Report to DfID. (March 2011). Full report (2 MB), Text only version (600 kB). (Also see here for screencast.)
• Hassler, B., Mwewa, G. & Hennessy, S. (May 2010), Introducing digital Open Educational Resources into Zambian schools through school-based professional development, Presentation at e-Learning Africa, the 5th International Conference on ICT for Development, Education and Training, Lusaka, Zambia.
• B. Haßler, Alan McNeil Jackson, “Bridging the Bandwidth Gap: Open Educational Resources and the Digital Divide”, IEEE Transactions On Learning Technologies, Special Issue On Open Educational Resources (edited by Erik Duval and David Wiley), April-June 2010 (vol. 3 no. 2), pp. 110-115. DOI, read online.
• B. Haßler, “Access to Open Educational Resources”, a report about the UNESCO Communities discussion about access issues. (2009, http://oerwiki.iiep.unesco.org/index.php/Access2OER)
• B. Haßler, “Digital Divide meets video-based learning: Video production, distribution, and use within the developing world”, contribution to 3. tele-TASK-Symposium - Von der Aufnahme zur virtuellen Bibliothek, at the Hasso-Plattner Institute, Potsdam (2008).
• Co-director of “Rich-media web streaming” at the Science Dissemination Unit of the UNESCO International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, 2007
• B. Haßler, “Multimedia”, chapter in “Web Design Guidelines for Low Bandwidth”, Aptivate (2007)
• B. Haßler, "Bridging the Digital Divide: Rethinking Open Learning for a Global Audience", conference contribution, DIVERSE, 2007
• B. Haßler, “Sustainability for Open Educational Resources”, contributions to report commissioned by the UK National Commission to UNESCO, to define policy and position on Open Educational Resources, 2007
• B. Haßler, “The future of information technology for education and e-learning”, contributions to report commissioned by the British Standards Institution, 2007
• B. Haßler, “Low Bandwidth Multimedia Streaming”, workshop contribution for “Optimization Technologies for Low-Bandwidth Networks”, ICTP-SDU, Trieste, 2006
• B. Haßler, C. Warner, M. E. McIntyre, “Preliminary estimates of missing force magnitudes”, 1st General Assembly of the European Geophysical Union, Nice, 2004.
• R. Atkinson, M. Barry, B. Haßler, D. Quinney, various contributions to the booklet "Diagnostic Testing for Maths" (2003), LTSN MathsTEAM, MSOR connections, Vol 3, No 2.
• B. Haßler, “The stratospheric circulation in the tropics”, PhD Thesis, DAMTP, December 2002.
• R. Atkinson, M. Barry, B. Haßler, D. Quinney, “A research proposal on diagnostic testing”, Proceedings of the Undergraduate Mathematics Teaching Conference 2001, Birmingham University.
• B. Haßler, M. E. McIntyre, “On the Robustness of the Brewer-Dobson Circulation in the Tropical Stratosphere”, Proceedings of the Meteorology at the Millennium 150th Anniversary Conference of the Royal Meteorological Society, St. John's College, Cambridge, UK, 2000.
• P. Calay, P. Chambers, P. Edwards, B. Haßler, C. Hill, P. Kahn, “Increasing Student Involvement in their own Learning”, Proceedings of the Undergraduate Mathematics Teaching Conference 1999, Sheffield-Hallam University.
• B.. Haßler, “Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov-Bernard equations and applications to conformal field theory”, Diplomarbeit, Universität Hamburg (June 1998)
• A. A. El-Zant, B. Haßler, “Dynamics of galaxies with triaxial haloes”, New Astronomy 3/7, pp. 493-537 (Oct, 1998).