Current Research Projects

  • Project Profile

    Funding source:

    Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)

    Time frame:

    05/2020 - 10/2023

    Project details:

    Network management:

    Prof. Dr. Mandy Schiefner-Rohs (Technische Universität Kaiserslautern)

    Projects partners:

    Prof. Dr. Andreas Breiter (ifib -Institut für Informationsmanagement Bremen GmbH)

    Project details

    With digital transformation, data - and how it is generated, linked, and used - is becoming more important in all areas of life and work. Data-driven decisions pose new challenges for educators: They must shape data education while also positioning themselves to the increasing datafication. However, it usually remains open what the presence of data, for example from virtual learning environments or from information and performance data systems, means for teaching and learning and how it can shape educational processes.

    This is where the collaborative project comes in and asks how educators deal with the diverse data that accumulates in everyday school life: How does data shape everyday pedagogy? How is data embedded in learning at school? How do multi-professional teams understand and construct data education and how do they translate this into interdisciplinary (media) pedagogical action? To what extent does data condition teaching, learning, and organizational culture? The researchers from the Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, the FernUniversität in Hagen, and the Institute for Information Management in Bremen are reconstructing how educators deal with data in everyday school life. In doing so, they also look at the special organizational features that interdisciplinary educational offerings entail. Based on this, they design educational concepts and accompany their implementation in school practice.

  • Project details

    It is probably one of the largest education policy projects of recent times that a so-called National Education Platform (‘Nationale Bildungsplattform’) is to be established nationwide. As a networking infrastructure, it is intended to bundle digital offerings that are to be found now and in the future in various areas of education. However, the development of this infrastructure poses a number of challenges, which can be summarized in pedagogical terms with questions about the design principles of its "makers" and the usage practices of its "users".

    These questions are the focus of the qualitative evaluation. The evaluation is part of the joint project BIRD and is funded by the BMBF with more than 1.6 million EUR. Group discussions will be used to further explore and investigate four educational areas (namely school, university, adult education and in-company training), which will finally be evaluated using the documentary method. Further surveys can follow - depending on the project status.

    Univ.-Prof'in Dr'in Sandra Hofhues (spokesperson and leader) and Univ.-Prof'in Dr'in Julia Schütz (co-leader) are responsible for the project on behalf of the FernUniversität in Hagen.

  • Project Profile

    Funding source:

    Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)

    Time frame:

    02/2020 - 01/2023

    Project details:

    https://www.qualifizierungdigital.de/de/projektdatenbank-27.php?D=378&F=0&M=445&T=1

    Network management:

    Prof. Dr. med. M. Rose (Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin Medical Department, Division of Psychosomatic)

    Projects partners:

    Prof. Dr. C. Müller-Birn (Freie Universität Berlin Research group Human-Centered Computing)

    Project details

    In order to promote interdisciplinary cooperation within the medical profession and to facilitate the implementation of integrated treatment concepts, the "DocTalk" project is developing a digital platform. On this platform, chatbots will proactively alert medical staff members in training and continuing education during treatments to the need for advice from senior physicians in the clinic as well as from colleagues in other disciplines and provide appropriate communication channels. By linking with internal clinic systems and external knowledge databases, contextual knowledge content is to be offered and work processes are to be facilitated.

    In this joint project, the Department of Media Didactics is conducting research on collective practices of media use in clinics and is thus supporting structural and personnel organizational development in the context of digital infrastructures.

  • Project Profile

    Funding source:

    Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)

    Time frame:

    07/2020 - 06/2023

    Project details:

    Network management:

    Prof. Dr. C. Müller-Birn (Freie Universität Berlin Research group Human-Centered Computing, network management)

    Projects partners:

    Prof. Dr. Marian Margraf (Fraunhofer AISEC),

    Prof. Dr. Matthias Rose (Charité),

    Dr. med. Peter Gocke (Charité, Office for Digital Transformation),

    HRTBT Medical Solutions GmbH as well as further associated partners

    Project details

    The sub-project "Media Pedagogical Research & Evaluation" in the joint project WerteRadar investigates patients' value concepts in the process of so-called data donation. Using narrative interviews and group discussions, it expands the methodological repertoire of user research in informatics, which is otherwise often impact-oriented. In this way, the sub-project contributes to enabling patients to deal with their data in a reflective manner in the context of data disclosure and to recording fundamental assumptions about the image of human beings in informatics.

  • Project Profile

    Funding source:

    Internal funding program „Innovative Lehre“ (FiLeh)

    Time frame:

    10/2021 - 12/2023

    Contact Person:

    Jennifer Lange

    Project details

    The project "World Wide Views" is dedicated to the development of future-oriented teaching and learning scenarios. The goal is to enable location-independent internationalization for all students of educational science (B.A.), since physical mobility programs are difficult to realize, especially for students who are employed, have family commitments, or are physically impaired. The guiding question of the project is how the long-term implementation of "internationalization at home" at the FernUniversität can be designed in the educational sciences. In order to answer this question, interviews with employees of the FernUniversität will be conducted to identify the understanding of internationalization and individual (project) experiences. On the basis of the evaluation, a basic structure is to be created, which will function as a foundation for future internationalization measures.

Mediendidaktik | 29.11.2022