Dr. Jan Hellriegel

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Dr. Jan Hellriegel Photo: Volker Wiciok/FeU

Email: jan.hellriegel

Phone: +49 2331 987-4469

Room: A211, Building 5

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

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  • 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.