Personal Homepage of Bern Martens

Welcome to my homepage.
On this site, you will find a brief introduction to my professional activities and background.
In case you like more information on any of the topics mentioned, please contact me by e-mail.
Bern Martens [picture]

My current professional activities and interests focus on information technology (IT), ethics and/or education.

  • I am a lecturer in IT at the Department of Teacher Training of the Katholieke Hogeschool Leuven (KHLeuven).
    I prepare students for teaching information technology (IT) and (some) computer science in secondary school. I am responsible for an introductory overview course on IT and computer science, several programming courses, a seminar series on didactics, and two seminar series on ethical and social issues in IT. I am also involved in policy making and project coordination at the divisional and departmental levels.
    Finally, together with Gerben Dierick, lecturer in IT at the G&T Department of the KHLeuven, I teach a course on ethical and social issues in information technology in the KHLeuven International Programme for Erasmus Students.
  • I am a part-time visiting professor in the IT & CS Teacher Training Programme of the Department of Computer Science of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KULeuven), as well as a fellow of the KULeuven Faculty of Sciences.
  • I like to think, talk and write on IT, ethics and education. A list of my publications on those topics can be found here (mostly in Dutch).

In 2008, my latest book on ethical and social issues connected to information technology appeared.
More information about this book can be found here (in Dutch).

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