Alfons Rissberger Explained

Alfons Rissberger
Birth Date:25 May 1948
Birth Place:Worms, Germany
Education:Technische Universität Darmstadt (M.A.)
Known For:Initiator and founding board member of Initiative D21
Nationality:German

Alfons Rissberger (born May 25, 1948) is a German entrepreneur, business consultant, and writer.

Life

Rissberger was born in Worms, Germany, in 1948. His father was a locksmith.

He studied an apprenticeship in television technology-craftsmanship, followed by further study in Frankfurt and Darmstadt in electrical engineering, computer sciences, and vocational education. He focused on educational psychology and political sciences. He holds a diploma in engineering and completed the first and second state examinations in vocational education.

He financed his studies by working as a night cargo workman at Frankfurt Airport and by setting up informatics-course-systems at community colleges in Frankfurt-Höchst and Worms. The concept of these informatics-courses was the foundation for recommendations by the Gesellschaft für Informatik ("German Informatics Society") and by the Deutsche Volkshochschul-Verband e.V. ("German Community College Union") for vocational education.

He has been married twice and has two children with his first wife.

From 1970 until 1991 he taught and led activities in colleges. He also provided advanced training to executive managers in businesses. As a college professor, his focus was applied informatics, though he also taught informatics, trade, foreign business, taxation, and tourism at the University of Applied Sciences of the state Rhineland-Palatinate, Worms. He lectured for ten years at the BASF-Führungskolleg at the University Seminary of Economy in the water castle Gracht in Liblar near Cologne.

Since 1974 Rissberg has been a political and economical consultant with an emphasis on success and efficiency in the IT-age. He is a surveyor at the Enquete-Komission Deutschlands Weg in die Informationsgesellschaft (Enquete-Commission Germany's path to an information society) of the German Bundestag, a member of the science advisory council of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, a chairman of the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern multimedia advisory council, a leader of e-learning research projects, and an author of textbooks, television, and video productions.

From 1985 to 1993 Rissberger was the head of the department for new information and communication technologies at the Ministry of Education, Science and Advanced Training Rheinland-Pfalz, Mainz. He was responsible for the introduction of IT basic education in secondary education in all public schools within the state. He is also the editor of the first German IT basic education schoolbook published by Klett-Verlag. Rissberger was a leader of a number of German and European first-time BLK-model-experiments in e-learning. He generated ideas for new school formats (such as the technical collage for informatics) and new vocational training areas.

In 1987 he was the first German scientist who was responsible for a model experiment by the Federal State Commission for education management and research support (BLK) which studied e-learning at an elementary school.[1] From 1985 to 1993 Rissberger was responsible for IT basic education (ITG) and e-learning in the Rhineland-Palatinate's education system.

From 1993 until 2005 he was the managing director of DVZ Datenverarbeitungszentrums Mecklenburg-Vorpommern GmbH (data processing center). Since that time he owns the business Rissberger Strategie Consulting in Hamburg and Schwerin.

In 1994, he founded the Berlin memorandum (lit. "Active Learning: Multimedia for a Better Education).[2]

In 1999, he was a founding board member of Initiative D21 with chancellor Gerhard Schröder as chairman of the advisory council.

Rissberger was the founder and managing director of DVZ Consulting GmbH in Schwerin.

In 2001 Rissberger demanded a focused national project "e-learning in the German-speaking educational system" with a concept for the first virtual University in Germany: "VirtuS- Virtual University Schwerin",[3] [4] [5] but the project was never completed.

He has owned Rissberger Strategie Consulting in Hamburg and Schwerin since 2006.

In 2007, he started and co-edited the Berlin memorandum (lit. "VirtusD Virtual University Germany – e-learning for a Better Education at Universities").[6]

Projects

Literature

Publications

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Die BLK: Rückblick auf 37 Jahre im Dienst von Bund und Ländern. 2018-03-27. Bund-Länder-Kommission.
  2. Web site: Schulen "Moderne Analphabeten". November 28, 1994. Der Spiegel. 2018-03-27.
  3. Web site: VirtUS – Virtuelle Universität Schwerin. October 23, 2001. Rissberger Strategie Consulting. 2018-03-27.
  4. Web site: Berliner Memorandum "VirtusD Virtuelle Universität Deutschland – E-Learning für eine bessere Bildung an den Hochschulen". January 13, 2007. TU Dresden. 2018-03-27.
  5. Web site: (Vorläufiges) Endergebnis Ende 2012. 2012. Rissberger Strategie Consulting. 2018-03-27.
  6. Web site: Memorandum für virtuelle Universität. January 11, 2007. Physik Journal. 2018-03-27.
  7. Web site: (Mikro-)Computer: "Dritte industrielle Revolution"?. 1999. Rissberger Strategie Consulting. 2018-03-27.

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