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19.04.2024
AI experimental environment for innovative teaching and learning
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Access many different AI tools directly from Moodle: The FernUni strives to enable this with a new experimental environment. AI chat on study content, integration of AI-generated images, personalized learning support: these are just three examples of new learning scenarios which become a reality with the experimental environment. Several researchers from CATALPA are currently working on this project.
28.03.2024
Call for Participation: Workshop on Recommender Systems
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The CATALPA project AI.EDU 2.0 invites you to a workshop at the DELFI Conference on Educational Technologies (September 9-11, 2024 in Fulda). The focus is on recommender systems in the context of higher education. Deadline for the Call for Participation is July 15, 2024.
16.03.2024
Conference on academic success and dropouts
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What leads to academic success and graduation in digital studies? Who drops out - and who sticks with it? A digital science conference has now addressed questions like these. It was organized by the team of the CATALPA-associated project LAMASS@DiLea.
04.03.2024
Reach the full potential
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Which interventions help to reduce the consequences of negative prejudices against certain student groups and thus increase their chances of success? CATALPA junior researcher Nathalie Bick is currently investigating this question at an Ivy League college.
01.03.2024
Learning analytics: "Students need to see the benefits"
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Creating added value for individual students from learning data of many - that is the goal of Ioana Jivet. She is the new research professor at CATALPA since March 1st. In the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at the FernUniversität in Hagen, she will supervise final theses and offer courses on educational technologies.
15.02.2024
Study success through digitalization?
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Does digitalization make courses more attractive? What influence does it have on academic success? And how can personalized learning opportunities reduce drop-out rates? Questions like these will be addressed at the digital science conference on March 14 from 11 a.m. to 5:15 p.m., hosted by the LAMASS@DiLea project associated with CATALPA.
15.02.2024
Launch of MULTIDIVERSE-CSCL
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How can we counteract stereotypes in virtual study groups in a meaningful way and thus strengthen the sense of community among students? This is the focus of the project "MULTIDIVERSE-CSCL - Explaining and managing effects of multi-attributional diversity in Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning". Jennifer Hochstein (photo) is a member of the DFG-funded research project.
08.02.2024
Give my doctoral thesis more depth and relevance
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How can argumentative essays be evaluated automatically? Doctoral student Yuning Ding is devoting her research to these questions. She recently traveled to Princeton to work with experts from ETS. Let's take a look at Yuning at our leisure.
06.02.2024
A new AI tool against online hate
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A better and safer Internet - that is the goal of Safer Internet Day on February 6. A project by computational linguist Prof. Dr. Torsten Zesch fits in with this: with his help, a new AI tool was developed that recognizes criminal hate messages from social media posts. The tool is intended to facilitate the work of law enforcement authorities. The aim is to detect crimes much more quickly and thus combat crime more effectively.
18.01.2024
New project DECIDE picked up work
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Under which circumstances is choice beneficial for students and under which circumstances can it be detrimental? Our scientists adress this research question in the context of new research project DECIDE. They explore the consequences of choice in the context of distance learning and take student diversity into account.
20.12.2023
CATALPA junior research group "Stereotype Threat" convinces reviewers
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The junior research group "Stereotype Threat" under her leadership convinced the external reviewers in the interim evaluation. And today, Laura Froehlich received her habilitation certificate at the Psychology Faculty Council meeting.
18.12.2023
IMPACT: Network meeting and new AI guidelines
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Five universities, four federal states, one common goal: to improve higher education through the use of artificial intelligence and trusted learning analytics. The project partners from Frankfurt, Berlin and Bremen met in Hagen for a hybrid exchange at the halfway point of the IMPACT project.
