Michael Hanses

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Michael Hanses (M. Sc.) Photo: Hardy Welsch

Michael Hanses (M. Sc.)

Projektleiter von LED:FUH

Email: michael.hanses

Universitätsstraße 27 – PRG / Building 5
Room C 001 (Ground Floor)
58097 Hagen

What is my role within CATALPA?

As project manager for the LEAD:FUH (Learning Empowerment through Analytics and Data) project, I lead an interdisciplinary team that is developing a university-wide teaching architecture for the implementation of learning analytics at FernUniversität. Together, we are working on strategic, cultural, structural, and technological aspects with the goal of enabling personalized feedback for students through data-driven analysis and visualization of learning processes, and allowing faculty and program administrators to make evidence-based improvements to their offerings. Previously, I was part of the IMPACT project, which drove the implementation of Trusted Learning Analytics and artificial intelligence in higher education. Together, we focused on integrating various open-source applications and developing AI-supported analytical methods.

My dissertation project under Prof. Dr. Haake and Prof. Dr. Claudia de Witt addresses the topic of learning analytics infrastructure at both the technical and strategic levels.

Why CATALPA?

CATALPA gives me the opportunity to further my education in an interesting field of research and to pursue my academic career. The interdisciplinary composition of the project teams creates a framework that enables the generation of synergies.

    • Research Assistant at the ZLI, LEAD:FUH Project "Learning Empowerment through Analytics and Data" (since 2025)

    • Research assistant at the CATALPA Research Center, IMPACT project "Implementation of AI-Based Feedback and Assessment with Trusted Learning Analytics in Higher Education Institutions" (2022–2025); alternate member of the CATALPA executive board until 2/24

    • BI Expert Viega Holding GmbH & CO KG Industry 4.0 and BI Expert for the departments Supply Chain & Technology (08.2018 - 05.2022)

    • M.Sc. Business Informatics University of Siegen, Germany "Examing Online Ideation Communities: A data-driven investigation of user collaboration and influencing factors on idea adoption" (2016 – 2018)

    • B.Sc. Business Informatics University of Trier "Creation of a customer management software based on Hibernate and Oracle databases" (2013 – 2016)

    • Apprenticeship as merchant in wholesale and foreign trade (2011 – 2013)

    • How can AI techniques improve higher education

    • How can NLP algorithms help generate feedback?

    • How can AI help improve the student life cycle?

    • What opportunities does visual analytics give us in higher education?

  • IMPACT

  • 2024

    Journals

    • van Rijn, L., Karolyi, H., Hanses, M., & de Witt, C. (2024). Feedback mit Learning Analytics – Interdisziplinäres Design eines Dashboards für Studierende. Zeitschrift Für Hochschulentwicklung, 19(4), 77–94. https://doi.org/10.21240/zfhe/19-4/05

    Conferences

    • Rüdian, S., Schumacher, C., Hanses, M., Kuzilek, J., & Pinkwart, N. (2024, July). Rule-based and prediction-based computer-generated feedback in online courses. IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT). http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICALT61570.2024.00089

    • Zesch, T., Hanses, M., Seidel, N., Aggarwal, P., Veiel, D., & de Witt, C. (2024). Flexible LLM Experimental Infrastructure (Flexi) – Enabling Experimentation and Innovation in Higher Education Through Access to Open LLMs. In 2024 21st International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training (ITHET) (pp. 1–8). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ITHET61869.2024.10837635

    Chapters in Edited Books

    • Hanses, M., van Rijn, L., Karolyi, H., & de Witt, C. (2024). Guiding students towards successful assessments using learning analytics from behavioral data to formative feedback. In M. Sahin & D. Ifenthaler (Eds.), Assessment analytics in education: Designs, methods and solutions (pp. 61–83). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-56365-2_4

    • Other Publications

    • Zesch, T., Hanses, M., Seidel, N., Aggarwal, P., Veiel, D., & Witt, C. de. (2024, June 27). FernUni LLM Experimental Infrastructure (FLEXI) -- Enabling Experimentation and Innovation in Higher Education Through Access to Open Large Language Models. http://arxiv.org/pdf/2407.13013

    2023

    Journals

    • Ferguson, R., Khosravi, H., Kovanović, V., Viberg, O., Aggarwal, A., Brinkhuis, M., Buckingham Shum, S., Chen, L. K., Drachsler, H., Guerrero, V. A., Hanses, M., Hayward, C., Hicks, B., Jivet, I., Kitto, K., Kizilcec, R., Lodge, J. M., Manly, C. A., Matz, R. L., … Yan, V. X. (2023). Aligning the goals of learning analytics with its research scholarship: An open peer commentary approach. Journal of Learning Analytics, 10(2), 14–50. https://doi.org/10.18608/jla.2023.8197
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