Research Projects

Current Projects

In the interdisciplinary project "Virtual Situateed Learning and Teaching with Avatars and Agents in Social Cyberspace: Multimodal, Action-oriented, Regulated, Extended (ViLeArn_more)", funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), innovative pedagogical concepts are developed and evaluated to advance the media pedagogical competencies of educators and higher education students, using AI-supported social Augmented Reality.

Duration: 2022-2024

Media Literacy in ITE from an International Perspective

In the project „Media Literacy in Initial Teacher Education (ITE) from an International Perspective”, the advancement of Media Literacy Education in initial teacher education is analyzed from an international comparative perspective.

Duration: since 01/2022

Virtual Learning Environments

In the sub-project "Virtual Learning Environments" of the project "WueDive", funded by the Foundation for Innovation in Higher Education (Stiftung Innovation in der Hochschullehre), a concept for the professional development of lecturers and a fully immersive seminar room are developed and evaluated in an interdisciplinary approach.

Duration: 2021-2024

Advancement of media pedagogical competencies of preservice teachers

This research area aims to develop concepts for higher education to advance the media pedagogical competencies of preservice teachers based on theory and to empirically evaluate these. In this context, the focus is on media-related educational tasks.

Duration: since 01/2021

Breaking Bad Behavior

In the project Breaking Bad Behavior, a concept is developed and evaluated in an interdisciplinary approach to advance the classroom management competencies of preservice teachers. Also, a fully immersive classroom is developed and evaluated.

Duration: since 2015