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01.10.2025
From Finland straight to the Great Lakes
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As part of her project "Emerging Network Techniques to Model Educational Data," Kamila Misiejuk traveled to Finland and the US this summer to deepen her collaboration with international colleagues and advance new insights.
24.09.2025
Funding for new living lab project
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CATALPA researchers Niels Seidel and Slavica Radovic have secured funding for a project to support self-regulated learning as part of the AI:edu.nrw funding program. As part of a “statewide digitization initiative,” a prototype developed according to the real-world laboratory principle is to be validated, tested, and improved for widespread use in higher education.
18.08.2025
CATALPA Graduate School: Workshops, Exchange, Symposium
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This year saw the launch of the CATALPA College. It offers doctoral students a structured and interdisciplinary program as well as exchange with and between postdocs.
18.08.2025
LEAD:FUH – An opportunity for learning analytics research
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Evidence-based learning analytics applications in a new teaching architecture: That is the goal of the new million-euro project LEAD:FUH. CATALPA is contributing crucial expertise.
06.08.2025
A look at the future of education – an interview with the Learning Science team
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Artificial intelligence is forcing us to rethink educational processes. At the same time, there are still major gaps in our research. Dr. Florence Lehnert and Daiana Rinja from the Learning Sciences research professorship team want to contribute to and help shape new findings in precisely this area of tension. In this interview, they venture a glimpse into the future with us.
29.07.2025
Practical project with students successfully completed
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Promoting young talent and knowledge transfer in one: Students present CATALPA research to students. As part of a practical project, six PR students developed social media content for the research center.
18.07.2025
CATALPA Lecture Series kicks off with Peter Reimann
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The CATALPA Lecture Series kicks off on September 24 at 4 p.m. with a guest lecture open to the university public by Peter Reimann, University of Sydney. The topic: “Towards an infrastructure for knowledge mobilisation.”
05.06.2025
Wanted: Junior Research Group Leader
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"Computational Psychometrics and Innovative Assessment Approaches" is the title of the new CATALPA junior research group. Applications can be submitted in German or English until July 18.
02.06.2025
Established areas of focus, new approach
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Success for research group leader PD Dr. Laura Froehlich: As interim professor she now ensures continuity in the field of social psychology – while also setting new priorities, for example in the Master's program in Business Psychology.
19.05.2025
Advisory Board certified CATALPA's impressive development
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"Outstanding work in setting up CATALPA" and an "impressive development" - this was the verdict of the international Scientific Advisory Board at the annual meeting of the research center.
22.04.2025
Lecture: On adaptive digital learning systems
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"Adaptive digital learning systems should reflect the diversity of students, not just their different levels of knowledge" – this is the title of a lecture by Prof. Dr. Walt Detmar Meurers at the CATALPA research center, on May 8 at 5:45 pm, Building 2, Room 1 and 2 (in English). CATALPA invites all university members to join, either in person or via Zoom.
15.04.2025
Workshop EduRS - Recommender Systems in Education
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The CATALPA project AI.EDU 2.0 invites you to a workshop at the DELFI Conference on Educational Technologies (8.-10. September 2025 in Freiberg). It is the second workshop at the DELFI conference and again focuses on educational recommender systems in the context of Higher Education.
