Leibniz Institute for Educational Media | Georg Eckert Institute

Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsmedien | Georg-Eckert-Institut
Abbreviation	GEI
Founded	1975[1]
Founder	Georg Eckert
Type	Research institute
Purpose	Research, Education
Location	Braunschweig (Niedersachsen, Germany)
Coordinates	52°16′05″N 10°30′40″E / 52.268139°N 10.511016°E / 52.268139; 10.511016
Membership	Leibniz Association
Official language	German
Director	Eckhardt Fuchs (since 2015)
Staff	127[2]
Website	gei.de

The Leibniz Institute for Educational Media | Georg Eckert Institute (GEI) is a non-university research institute focusing on international textbook and educational media research.^[3] The institute was founded in 1975 and belongs to the Leibniz Association.

Departments

• ‘Information Centre for Educational Media’
  • Responsible for the research library and the information infrastructures that support the GEI's research
• ‘Media | Transformation’
  • Explores the socio-political implications of the educational technologies used in schools
• ‘Human-Centred Technologies for Educational Media (MTB)’
  • Researches and develops digital infrastructures and tools for use in international educational media research, which are based in the department's own research as well as on data and findings from the institute's other departments
• ‘Knowledge in Transition’
  • Researches knowledge presented in textbooks as an indicator and factor of social change