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Simplicatus AS (NO)

Established in 2000, Simplicatus AS aims to explain difficult things in a simple fashion.

Our focus is mathematics and physics, as these subjects are traditionally considered the most challenging in science education and science communication. We combine pedagogical understanding with subject knowledge and competency of the latest technologies in order to develop educational materials and applications that enhance the learning process.

Simplicatus is or has been involved with the following projects:

MOSEM²

Simplicatus is Project Owner / Contractor / Coordinator of the MOSEM² project.
The following people at Simplicatus are involved with the MOSEM² project:

Name

Role

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Vegard Engstrøm, M.Sc. Project management, forum & website administrator, quality assurance, co-author, budgeting, accounting, payments, archiving, financial report, interim and final reports
Aasrun Engstrøm Administration, documentation, contracts, logistics, purchases, payments, financial reporting, translations
Eva Charlton Documentation, project application  
Morten Sandberg, B.Sc. IT Operations, System administrator

MOSEM

Simplicatus is Project Owner / Contractor / Coordinator of the MOSEM project.
The following people at Simplicatus are involved with the MOSEM project:

Name

Role

Picture

Vegard Engstrøm, M.Sc. Project management, forum & website administrator, quality assurance, co-author, budgeting, accounting, payments, archiving, financial report, interim and final reports
Aasrun Engstrøm Administration, documentation, contracts, logistics, purchases, payments, financial reporting, translations
Morten Sandberg, B.Sc. IT Operations, System administrator
Eva Charlton Documentation, contracts  
Arne Seime, M.Sc. Updating the intranet  
Jo Smiseth, Ph.D. Co-author and scientific quality assurance for online learning application
Nils Arne Trelsgård Graphic design  
Anne Cathrine Nielsen Auditing, financial reporting  
Magnus Rudolfsen (subcontractor Visualize) Maintenance and updates to online learning application  

SUPERCOMET 2

Simplicatus was the Contractor and Coordinator of the SUPERCOMET 2 project.
The following people at Simplicatus were involved with the SUPERCOMET 2 project:

Name

Role

Picture

Vegard Engstrøm, M.Sc. Project management, quality assurance, co-author for the online learning application, budgeting, accounting, payments, archiving, financial report, interim and final reports
Morten Sandberg, B.Sc. IT Operations, System administrator (Linux server, Windows clients), Webmaster intranet and project websites (old version and development of new version using eZ Publish)
Arne Seime, M.Sc. Updating the intranet  
Jo Smiseth, Ph.D. Co-author for online learning application
Aasrun Engstrøm Financial final report  
Lena H. Ness Accounting, financial final report  
Elisabeth Tho Accounting, payments, archiving, financial pre-interim report  
Vegard Cock, Sven Aanesen (subcontractor Mintra) Further updates to third version of learning application for CD-ROM, also testing and running online on test server (2005-2007)  
Magnus Rudolfsen, Jan-Erik Vinje, Peter Rudolfsen (subcontractor Visualize) Development of Flash animations for learning application.
Development and implementation of fourth version of learning application online, testing and running on test server (2007-2009)
 

SUPERCOMET

Simplicatus was the Coordinator of the SUPERCOMET project.
The following people at Simplicatus were involved with the SUPERCOMET project:

Name

Role

Picture

Vegard Engstrøm, M.Sc. Project management, co-author for the learning application and teacher guide, budgeting, interim and final reports
Kristian Fossheim, Prof. Co-author for the learning application
Jo Smiseth, M.Sc. Co-author for the learning application
Morten Sandberg IT Operations, System administrator (Linux server, Windows clients), Webmaster intranet and website
Arne Seime Developing and implementing the intranet  
Andreas Morland Web design for the learning application, intranet and website  
Gunnar Braaten Developing and implementing project website  
Einar Huseby IT Operations, purchasing and installing servers, development of CD-ROM with first and second version of learning application (2002)  
Sven Aanesen (subcontractor Mintra) Development and implementation of third version of learning application for CD-ROM, also testing and running online on test server (2002-2004)  
Magnus Rudolfsen, Jan-Erik Vinje, Peter Rudolfsen (subcontractor Visualize) Development of Flash animations for learning application  

Superlab

Simplicatus ran the Superlab project alone.
The following people at Simplicatus were involved with the Superlab project:

Name

Role

Picture

Kristian Fossheim, Prof. Project sponsor, main author for online learning application
Vegard Engstrøm, M.Sc. Project management, co-author for online learningapplication, budgeting, accounting, payments, financial interim report
Jo Smiseth, M.Sc. Co-author of text for online learning application

Further information:

Simplicatus AS

SUPERCOMET

Superlab