Jacob Nielsen

Jacob Nielsen is the President and co-founder of Teknologiskolen, a volunteer union offering technologically oriented spare time activities to kids. He holds a civil-engineering degree in Robot Engineering and a Phd in User-Configurable Modular Robotic Systems. He is an associate professor and head of education at the Game Development and Learning Technologies Education and research group, University of Southern Denmark. Most of his work is centred around making technology useful and meaningful for the end-users and coming up with the best ways possible to teach people how to be creative with technology. In his teaching and research he is strongly influenced by Seymour Papert and his constructionist learning methodologies.