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22.01.2026

CATALPA Lecture Series: Tanja Käser on educational technology and models of learning

Tanja Käser and Marcus Specht in front of CATALPA logo Photo: CATALPA

Generalizability versus interpretability of learning models — that was the topic of Tanja Käser's presentation as part of the CATALPA Lecture Series on January 21. Modeling learners' knowledge and behavior are at the heart of educational technology, yet, they often lack either generalizability or interpretability. If and how AI can help here is yet to be discovered.

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15.01.2026

Marcus Specht Appointed New Scientific Director of CATALPA

Collage of portraits of Markus Specht and Friedrich Hesse Photo: Hardy Welsch/Henrik Schipper

Change at the top of CATALPA: Prof. Dr. Marcus Specht recently took over as the research center's new Scientific Director.

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27.11.2025

Berlin Symposium: AI Solutions for Tomorrow's Higher Education

Marcus Specht at his keynote Photo: Thomas Rosenthal

"No Progress Without Living Labs: Why AI in Universities Is Running Into a Dead End" - This was the title of the 2025 Berlin Symposium, organized by the CATALPA research center.

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