Ton de Jong

is full professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Twente, Faculty of Behavioral Sciences and chair of the department of Instructional Technology. From 2003-2008 he has been director of the Dutch national research school (approx. 100 persons staff and 100 PhD students) on Educational Science. He was project manager of the EC-telematics SERVIVE project (SimQuest), of the EC (5th framework) KITS project (KM Quest) and Co-Lab project and (7th framework) SCY project and of the SURF ZAP project (interactive visuals for psychology). He has won the European Academic Software Award 2000 (EASA) for SimQuest and the same award in 2004 for ZAP. Ton de Jong was coordinator of a multi-university project sponsored by the Dutch NSF on modelling discovery behaviour, of a Dutch-German (NWO-DFG) project on external representations in multimedia environments, and currently of a Flemish-Dutch (FWO-NWO) project on games for mathematics learning. Ton de Jong is (co-)author of over 100 journal papers and book chapters and was the editor of three books on the editorial board of seven ISI journals and associate editor for Instructional Science and for the Journal of Engineering Education. He has published in Science and is currently on the advisory board of Science Magazine (NSF Sponsored) project “Science in the classroom” that intends to annotate papers in Science so that they become accessible for (under)graduate students. Ton de Jong has been appointed fellow of the American Educational Research Organization (AERA)