Author: René Röpke

On May 28th, 2025, the inaugural meeting of the Academic & Learning Analytics Network took place at TU Wien, bringing together representatives from ten Austrian universities to discuss the future of data-informed higher education. The network emerged from collaborative efforts initiated by the BMBWF’s 2019 Digitalization Call, particularly the Learning Analytics Cluster, which included projects…

On May 13th and 14th, 2025, Martina Landman, Lukas Lehner and René Röpke attended a symposium on CS education, hosted by the Austrian Computer Society (OCG) and Council of European Professional Informatics Societies (CEPIS). The event was focused on three key areas: Computer Science in Higher Education, Computing as a Foundation for Empowered Citizens and…

Beginning in March, the LTeD Research Lab offers new courses to students of the Faculty of Informatics at TU Wien. Every semester, we offer the course “Informatics Didactics” (Didaktik in der Informatik, Abenteuer Informatik), a hands-on introduction to computer science education and didactics. In this course, students learn about the educational offerings in the context…

On Saturday, 14.12.2024, René Röpke contributed to a panel discussion on educational technology in the context of human rights in the digital age. He shared his expertise on gamification and game-based learning in the context of different learning contexts and broad insights from the academia perspective to the lively discussion. Sharing the stage with him…

Exciting news: Martina Landman, researcher and PhD student of the LTeD Research Lab and organiser of the TU Wien Informatics eduLAB, is awarded with a netidee grant for her dissertation on algorithmic problem solving in unplugged learning activities for Computer Science (CS) outreach. The grant gives her the opportunity to focus more on her research…

From November 20th to 22nd, 2024, René Röpke attended the Games and Learning Alliance International Conference (GALA 2024) at the Berlin School of Economics and Law (HWR Berlin). It is the 13th edition organized by the Serious Games Society in collaboration with HWR Berlin. The LTeD Research Lab was represented with two full papers. In…

In the beginning of November, our team welcomed David Baberowski from TU Dresden, Germany as a visiting researcher to TU Wien. The visit was supported through Erasmus+ and allowed him to connect and collaborate with our team, give a guest lecture as part of our Informatics didactics seminar and test his current research prototype with…

As part of Erasmus+, David Baberowski, a researcher and PhD student from TU Dresden in Germany visits the LTeD Research Lab. His research involves the design and evaluation of VR Serious Games to be used in schools. Topics currently covered are the inner workings of a home network router and a CPU. During his stay,…

The eduLAB at TU Wien is an educational outreach initiative by the Faculty of Informatics. It was founded by Prof. Gerald Futschek and continued by Prof. Tobias Kohn. Now, it is also associated to the LTeD Research Lab. Our goal is to extend the eduLAB offerings over time and bring research and practice together, benefiting…