Dr. Jan Hellriegel
Photo:
Volker Wiciok/FeU
Biography
- Since 04/2025: Project Leader of the externally funded teaching project “Edu-Lab: Digital Empowerment for Adult Learners (EDAL)”
- Teaching Module: „Methoden und Didaktik der Erwachsenenbildung“ (Module 7C, M.A. Education and Media - eEducation)
- Since 09/2022 Research Associate at FernUniversität in Hagen, Chair Adult and Continuing Education
- 10/2019–03/2023 Research Associate at the Institute for Education Research of the Johannes Gutenberg-University in Mainz
- 06/2018–06/2022 PhD student at TU Kaiserslautern in the field of adult- and media-education.
- 12/2014–09/2019 Research Associate at TU Kaiserslautern (Teaching and research in the field of adult, vocational, and teacher education)
- 06/2011–02/2014 Student assistant at the Center for Continuing Education in Mainz (ZWW)
- 06/2014 Master of Arts (M. A.) in Educational Science at Johannes Gutenberg-University in Mainz (Focus on media and adult education)
- 03/2012 Bachelor of Arts (B. A.) in Educational Science at Johannes Gutenberg-University in Mainz (Focus on media education)
Research Interest
- Adult education and educational organizations
- Participation in society (under the conditions of digitization)
- Action-based learning / Action-based learning methods
- Programme planning & programme research
- Digital media as teaching content & teaching aids in adult education
- Artificial intelligence in adult and continuing education
- Media literacy / competence development
Memberships
- Member of the German Association for Higher Education Research (GfHf)
- Member of the German Educational Research Association (GERA | DGfE) - Division 9 - Adult Education & Division 12 - Media Education
- Member of the Network „Adult Education Digitalisation Research“ (NED)
- Associate member of the Research Cluster: Work – Education – Digitalization (WED)
English-language Publications
- Rohs, Matthias; Hellriegel, Jan & Prescher, Thomas (2017). Learning with digital media in a German vocational education and training system. Bulletin in Institute of Technology and Vocational Education (Nagoya University), 16, 71–79.
Adult and Continuing Education
| 02.06.2026