Research FieldsEducation Research

Education Research Improve education and teaching experience with the use of modern technology

Education Research covers various disciplines from computer science to didactics and education science. Software is widely used in many different fields around the globe and due to the large amount of modern technologies, computer scientists now are able to design and integrate solutions to support learners and instructors likewise to support existing teaching environments and create new teaching approaches. Many different approaches can be found reaching from Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) over E-Learning Platforms (Moodle) to Interactive Teaching, Experiential Learning and Live Feedback Tools. Major challenges are the integration into existing platforms, usability for different domains e.g. young learners, old learners, as well as providing the necessary tools for different fields. Also, privacy and at the same time traceability about a learners progress are concerns which are not easily combined.

The main focus of this group is on real-time, and interactive feedback solutions during sessions and exercises combined with evaluations to increase the teaching experience even in large classrooms with up to 1000 students. (Semi-)automatic feedback in programming and modeling exercises with high quality and guidance is our aim.

Interactive Learning

Interactive learning is a new approach: educators teach small chunks of content in short cycles of theory, example, exercise, solution, and feedback. It is based on active, computer-based and experiential learning and focuses on immediate feedback to improve the learning experience.

SIGCSE 2017 Workshop: How to Integrate Interactive Learning into Large Classes

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Bachelorthesis

Entwicklung eines kontext-basierten Q&Asystems in der Lehre

Advisor

Jan Knobloch

Author

Svilen Stefanov

Date

15.04.2018

Masterthesis

OTC - Ein Client für die Online-Lehre für MOOCs und MOCCs

Advisor

Jan Knobloch

Author

Frank Hermann

Date

15.07.2018

Bachelorthesis

CAQAS - Ein semi-automatisches modulares kontext-bewusstes Frage & Antwort System für MOOCs und MOCCs

Advisor

Jan Knobloch

Author

Jonas Kaltenbach

Date

15.09.2017

Bachelorthesis

Ein Prozessmodell für das Management von Hausaufgaben in Präsenzvorlesungen mit großen Studentenzahlen

Advisor

Jan Knobloch

Author

Maximilian Zitzmann

Date

16.06.2017

Masterthesis

Semi-automatic Team Composition in project-based organizations

Advisor

Dora Dzvonyar

Author

Eriks Gopaks

Date

01/2017

The problem of team allocation is a complex task for humans to manage. We address this problem by exploring possible algorithmic solutions and implementing some of them in an interactive decision-support system. We collected a range of algorithmic approaches, introduced a convenient cat- egorization of them, and implemented one of the most promising ones into an actual software solution. We further held two distinct experiments with the implemented system. The results of these experiments show that the sys- tem finds an optimal team allocation with regards to the specified allocation objective and satisfies all specified constraints.

Masterthesis

Ein Live Feedback Werkzeug zur Unterstützung von Ansätzen des integrierten Lernens in verteilten Vorlesungsräumen

Advisor

Jan Knobloch

Author

Gigantiello, Enrico

Date

15.11.2016

Masterthesis

Handhabung von Vorlesungsinhalten bei heterogenem Wissensstand des Publikums

Advisor

Jan Knobloch

Author

Flemke, Johannes

Date

12.02.2015

Bachelorthesis

Entwicklung einer iOS-Applikation zur Bewertung der Qualität von Vorlesungen

Advisor

Jan Knobloch

Author

Ercelik, Soner

Date

15.07.2015

Masterthesis

Communication Metrics in Agile Projects

Advisor

Dora Dzvonyar

Author

Belinda Zahra

Date

08/2016

Software metrics have been proven to be useful in indicating problems in development projects, but they are limited to analyzing information captured in software artifacts. By applying metrics to communication artifacts, we want to make the development process more insightful, validate the software metrics by combining them with results derived from aspects of team communication, and make it possible to recognize problems from a very early project stage.

Bachelorthesis

Development of a User Interface for Team Allocation in Software Projects

Advisor

Dora Dzvonyar

Author

Malte Bucksch

Date

10/2016

The team allocation for software projects is often done solely based on the subjective judgment of the project manager. The objective of this thesis is to create a hybrid system called TEASE (TEam Allocation for Software Engineering). It makes use of an algorithm while allowing user interaction to create optimal teams from a pool of persons. The project manager can adapt the generated team allocation through an intuitive user interface based on his own knowledge and experience. The focus of this thesis is the user interface of TEASE.