Author: Tergan
Title: Dr.
Born: 27.02.1944
Bio: Former Member of the Knowledge Media Research Center (Tuebingen, Germany)

Sigmar-Olaf Tergan (born 27. 02. 1944 in Hildesheim) studied psychology from 1966 -1971 at the universities Göttingen, Innsbruck (Aut) and Marburg (diploma). From 1972- 1973 he was research scientist in the research unit "Radio Seminar Educational Psychology" at the German Institute for Distance Education (DIFF), Tuebingen. From 1974 - April 1975 he attended Studies of Educational Science as a scholarship holder of the foundation Volkswagenwerk (studies at University of Tuebingen, (Germany); Bell Telephone Laboratories, NJ (USA); San Francisco State University, Calif. (USA). From May 1975 - 1977 he worked as research scientist at the German Institute for Distance Education, Tuebingen (Project group: Radio Seminar Evaluation). From 1978 - 1985 Mr. Tergan was research scientist at the German Institute for Distance Education, Tuebingen (Department of Research). In 1983 he graduated as Dr. rer. soc. at the University of Tuebingen. From 1985 - 1994 he was research scientist at the German Institute for Distance Education (department of learning research), Tuebingen (1993 - 1994: research group further education and interactive media - AWIM). From 1988 until December 2008 he was member of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI).
From june 1994-dec. 2000 he was research scientist at the German Institute for Distance Education (department of applied cognitive psychology). Since 2001 he has been research scientist at the Knowledge Media Research Center (KMRC), Department "Knowledge Acquisition with Hypermedia". Mr. Tergan retired in september 2007.
Research interests:
learning and knowledge acquisition with hypermedia, knowledge and information visualization; Concept Maps and knowledge management; evaluation of eLearning.
For recent publications see his Internet page http://www.iwm-kmrc.de/www/de/mitarbeiter/ma.html?uid=stergan&dispname=Ehemalige