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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.
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.
11.04.2025
LA DIVA – foundations for new living lab research
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How can learning analytics be used to provide students with tailored support? This was the subject of the CATALPA project LA DIVA, which has now been successfully completed.
03.04.2025
CATALPA new member of Leibniz Education Research Network
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The CATALPA research center of the FernUniversität in Hagen was today accepted as a new member of the Leibniz Education Research Network (LERN). The network now comprises 28 institutions. LERN has set itself the task of increasing the visibility of the Leibniz Association in educational issues.
25.03.2025
Marie Bexte on her research stay in Cambridge
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New impulses, new research approaches and new data sets - CATALPA member Marie Bexte is currently doing research in Cambridge at the Institute for Automated Language Teaching and Assessment (ALTA). At the CATALPA colloquium, she reported on what she is investigating there, what she is taking back with her, and what surprises Cambridge has to offer.
19.03.2025
How is technology actually helping?
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Using learning data to gain actionable insights for students and teachers - that's what the Learning Analytics research professorship is all about. Since fall 2024, the team around CATALPA junior research professor Ioana Jivet has been complete with postdoc Kamila Misiejuk and doctoral student Volkan Yücepur. How do they want to support the learning process with their research? They explain in an interview.
10.02.2025
"People are social learners - all their lives."
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The Psychology of Digital Teaching and Learning: Prof. Dr. Marcus Specht is now working on this topic at the CATALPA research center.
31.01.2025
Improving teaching and learning at universities with AI research
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Time savings for lecturers, tailored support for students: CATALPA - Center of Advanced Technology for Assisted Learning and Predictive Analytics - at the FernUniversität in Hagen has now presented AI-based prototypes that can significantly improve everyday teaching and learning at the university.
10.01.2025
Marcus Specht takes on new professorship
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At the beginning of the year, Prof. Dr. Marcus Specht took over the research professorship "Learning Sciences in Higher Education" at CATALPA. "I am looking forward to advancing research in the field of learning with AI," says Specht. "CATALPA offers optimal conditions for this.
06.12.2024
Designing fair e-assessments
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Do justice to the diversity of students and thereby make exams more valid - sounds obvious, but is often accompanied by complex challenges. The NOVA:ea (InNOVAtionscluster E-Assessment) research project aims to do just that.
04.12.2024
Curios about the possibilities educational technologies offer
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The AI.EDU Research Lab, with Claudia de Witt and her team, has been part of the CATALPA project from the very beginning. Since 2018, they have been researching how novel educational technologies can be used in a didactically meaningful way in higher education. An interview with Prof. Dr. Claudia de Witt, Silke Wrede and Lars van Rijn.
26.09.2024
Using AI to explore language learning
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How can AI improve the quality of language testing? A CATALPA project is doing the basic research here. An insight on “European Day of Languages” on September 26.
