About The German Workforce ADL Partnership Laboratory (German Workforce ADL Partnership Lab), formed in October 2009, is located in Ilmenau, Germany. It is housed at the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology within the Data Representations and Interfaces business area. The collaborative design lab has adopted ADL technologies and services that it uses to advance Human Resources Development— including Individual Learning and Training, Corporate and Life-Long–Learning Education, and Job Performance — within industry and throughout German society.

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Mission

The German Workforce ADL Partnership Lab supports the worldwide and cost-effective life-cycle–management of multilingual digital content — from its creation through description, storage, discovery, reuse, delivery, sharing, and presentation — by developing interoperable ADL technologies to ensure the highest quality of learning, education and training for the current workforce and the workforce of the future.

The lab supports ADL developments and implementations, promotes ADL standardization activities, and serves as a bridge between international businesses, research, and development within its focus areas in Germany. It will actively collaborate with ADL in the research and development of SCORM, CORDRA and new technologies, and foster interdisciplinary and international work in cooperation with the ADL Initiative, other ADL Partnership Labs and Co-Labs, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

Dr. Fanny Klett, Director

Fanny Klett (Ph.D.) leads the Data Representation and Interfaces Business Area at the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology. She assumed the Directorship of the German Workforce ADL Partnership Lab in 2009.

Dr. Klett’s interests focus on synergies between distributed learning and training, and applied research and development in the fields of information and content management, digital libraries, competency and performance management as well as human monitoring, and data and sensor fusion. She serves as a Principal Investigator and Coordinator on projects in these areas that are funded by various programs of the European Commission and the German government.

Dr. Klett actively works on the IEEE Learning Technology Standards Committee and in ISO JTC 1/SC 36, Information Technology for Learning, Education and Training, especially in the areas of metadata and competencies.

She has published over 50 technical papers and book chapters, and was awarded patents in the area of educational technology. She is associate editor of the IEEE Education Society and ASEE Electrical and Computer Engineering Division joint publication “The Interface”, serves on the review boards of the IEEE Transactions on Education and the IEEE Educational Technology and Society Journal as well as being a peer-reviewer for the European Commission R&D Program.

Dr. Klett earned her Ph.D. in Electronic Media Technology from Ilmenau University of Technology. She is an IEEE Fellow and chairs committees on the IEEE Educational Activities Board and the IEEE Computer Society Chapter Activities Board as well as the German Chapter of the IEEE Education Society. Dr. Klett is also Member of the Council and the Academic Board of the European Association for Education in Electrical and Information Engineering.

Contact Us

Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology | IDMT
Ehrenbergstr. 31 | 98693 | Ilmenau | Germany

http://www.idmt.fraunhofer.de/eng/business%20areas/ba_data_representation.htm

This ADL Partnership Lab is not sponsored by the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness (OUSD P&R) and therefore may not reflect the views and policies of the U.S Government and the ADL Initiative.