Thierry Koscielniak

Le Cnam is the only public higher education institution in France dedicated to life long learning and thus continuous learning with a strong activity in distance online courses. The Cnam National Digital Office is in charge of the implementation of courses digitalization and MOOC production.

During his career, Thierry has always been deeply involved in the use and promotion of open source EdTech : Moodle, Sakai, uPortal, Karuta, Mahara, Pod, H5P, and others. He believes and is committed in strong international networking and was a presenter at several conferences: JASIG, MoodleMoot, EDUCAUSE, Online Educa Berlin, Integrated System Europe. Thierry was the European member of the EDUCAUSE 2019 annual conference Program Committee and a member of Karuta Open Source Portfolio Governing Board.

As expert in EdTech in higher education, he performs an active watch and research on digital learning and presently the pedagogical uses of virtual reality and augmented reality. On behalf of Cnam, he is the founder of France Immersive Learning skills centre and vice-president of 3FOD, the French forum for digital learning stakeholders.

He is also involved in two associations of digital professionals in higher education: President of CSIESR, a French association, and Secretary of the Board of EUNIS, a European association. He steers a project using Karuta to provide Cnam lifelong learner with an E-portfolio for professional development based on competencies management. 

Thierry holds a PhD in chemistry and bioinformatics from Sorbonne University.