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25.03.2025

Marie Bexte on her research stay in Cambridge

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New impulses, new research approaches and new data sets - CATALPA member Marie Bexte is currently doing research in Cambridge at the Institute for Automated Language Teaching and Assessment (ALTA). At the CATALPA colloquium, she reported on what she is investigating there, what she is taking back with her, and what surprises Cambridge has to offer.

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19.03.2025

How is technology actually helping?

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Using learning data to gain actionable insights for students and teachers - that's what the Learning Analytics research professorship is all about. Since fall 2024, the team around CATALPA junior research professor Ioana Jivet has been complete with postdoc Kamila Misiejuk and doctoral student Volkan Yücepur. How do they want to support the learning process with their research? They explain in an interview.

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10.02.2025

"People are social learners - all their lives."

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The Psychology of Digital Teaching and Learning: Prof. Dr. Marcus Specht is now working on this topic at the CATALPA research center.

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31.01.2025

Improving teaching and learning at universities with AI research

Michael Baurmann, Friedrich Hesse, Kordula Attermeyer Photo: FernUniversität/CATALPA

Time savings for lecturers, tailored support for students: CATALPA - Center of Advanced Technology for Assisted Learning and Predictive Analytics - at the FernUniversität in Hagen has now presented AI-based prototypes that can significantly improve everyday teaching and learning at the university.

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10.01.2025

Marcus Specht takes on new professorship

Prof. Dr. Stefan Stürmer, Prof. Dr. Marcus Specht, Prof. Dr. Andreas Mokros and Dr. Stephanie Steimann Photo: CATALPA

At the beginning of the year, Prof. Dr. Marcus Specht took over the research professorship "Learning Sciences in Higher Education" at CATALPA. "I am looking forward to advancing research in the field of learning with AI," says Specht. "CATALPA offers optimal conditions for this.

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06.12.2024

Designing fair e-assessments

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Do justice to the diversity of students and thereby make exams more valid - sounds obvious, but is often accompanied by complex challenges. The NOVA:ea (InNOVAtionscluster E-Assessment) research project aims to do just that.

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04.12.2024

Curios about the possibilities educational technologies offer

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The AI.EDU Research Lab, with Claudia de Witt and her team, has been part of the CATALPA project from the very beginning. Since 2018, they have been researching how novel educational technologies can be used in a didactically meaningful way in higher education. An interview with Prof. Dr. Claudia de Witt, Silke Wrede and Lars van Rijn.

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26.09.2024

Using AI to explore language learning

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How can AI improve the quality of language testing? A CATALPA project is doing the basic research here. An insight on “European Day of Languages” on September 26.

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13.09.2024

From Stereotype Threat to Learning Analytics - CATALPA at the DGP Congress

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From learning analytics to group cohesion in online courses and stereotypical perceptions - CATALPA is represented with various contributions at the 53rd Congress of the German Psychological Society (DGP) in Vienna.

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05.09.2024

Workshop on Recommender Systems

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Deadline extended!!! The CATALPA project AI.EDU 2.0 invites you to a workshop at the DELFI Conference on Educational Technologies (September 9-11, 2024 in Fulda). The focus is on recommender systems in the context of higher education. Deadline for the Call for Participation is now July 31st, 2024.

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04.09.2024

How universities handle crises and conflicts

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How can universities prepare for turbulent times - the Middle East conflict, the war in Ukraine, the climate crisis, the AI revolution? This is the topic of Dr. Len Ole Schäfer's research.

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30.08.2024

Four CATALPA topics at Learning AID

Heike Karolyi, Claudia de Witt, Niels Seidel, Lars van Rijn, Silke Wrede, CATALPA-Keyvisual Photo: Hardy Welsch/Veit Mette/Bernd Müller

Generative AI, (trusted) learning analytics, formative feedback - CATALPA presented four different topics at the Learning AID in Bochum, Germany, from September 2-3.

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