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CATALPA Lecture Series kicks off with Peter Reimann
[18.07.2025]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.”
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Insights into science from international colleagues and opportunities for exchange—that's the goal of the CATALPA Lecture Series. Peter Reimann will kick off the new series.
Reimann is a professor at the Sydney School of Education and Social Work and co-director of the Centre for Research on Learning and Innovation (CRLI). He is considered one of the leading voices in the field of educational technology. His research focuses on the interface between cognitive science and learning technologies. In particular, he concentrates on how digital environments enable complex learning and shared knowledge, and investigates how they can support complex learning, the development of shared knowledge, and innovation in teaching practice.
Topic and Abstract
Towards an infrastructure for knowledge mobilisation: Modelling educational design principles as knowledge graphs.
The presentation addresses the limitations of disseminating research knowledge as unstructured text and explores alternative approaches from library and information sciences, particularly semantic publishing and Open Research Knowledge Graphs. It examines how design principles—intended for use by educators, learning designers, and educational technology developers—can be digitally structured for improved accessibility and usability. The talk further considers methods for modelling and storing evaluative research on these design principles in machine-readable formats. In the final section, Reimann will outline how these conceptual models can be formalised through ontologies and implemented as Knowledge Graphs, enabling their storage and retrieval via databases. Illustrative examples will be drawn from existing literature and preliminary work on a design principles database for nanoscience education.
University members are warmly invited to attend.
September 24, 2025, 4 p.m.
PRG, Room B 103
Please register by September 15, 2025 at catalpa.
Second lecture in the series on January 21 with Prof. Dr. Tanja Käser
The date for the second lecture in the series has also been set and can be noted in the diary: Prof. Dr. Tanja Käser, a new member of the CATALPA advisory board, has agreed to give a lecture on January 21, 2026, starting at 4 p.m. She is an assistant professor with tenure track at the EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences (IC) in Lausanne, where she heads the ML4ED Laboratory (Machine Learning for Education Laboratory). Her research lies at the intersection of machine learning, data mining, and education. She is particularly interested in creating accurate models of human behavior and learning.
