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How can curriculum analytics help improve the first year of higher education? This question was at the heart of Selina Reinhard’s contribution to the IEEE Frontiers in Education (FIE) Conference, which took place in Paphos, Cyprus, from 11–14 October 2026. The international conference brings together researchers and educators to discuss current developments in engineering and…

From 12–15 October 2026, Lukas Lehner and Klaus Nigsch of the LTeD Research Lab attended CMSC 2026 at the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Padova, Italy. Lukas Lehner presented our paper From Pantomime to Bitomime – A CS Unplugged Approach to Binary Encoding and Decoding in Primary Education. The paper introduces a…

On October 16th, 2026, Olivia Fischer successfully defended her dissertation at TU Wien. As a doctoral researcher in the STEAM – STEM – stART’em doctoral college, a cooperation between TU Wien and the University College of Teacher Education Vienna (PH Wien), her defense marks an important milestone in her academic career and contributes to the…

Sonja Klein recently presented her peer-reviewed poster “Toward the Alignment of Understandability, Reasoning and Explainability in TEL” at the 21st European Conference on Technology-Enhanced Learning (ECTEL 2026), organized by UNED in Valencia, Spain. The conceptual poster paper introduces AUREtel, a triadic, human-centered model that treats explainability in learning technologies as a pedagogical affordance and highlights…

From 15–17 September 2026, members of the LTeD Research Lab attended DELFI 2026 at the University of Potsdam, Germany. The team presented several research contributions. Selina Reinhard presented the poster Why Study Entry Phases Deserve Closer Attention: Early Insights and a Curriculum Analytics Research Agenda, while Master student Rafael Milchram presented Time Well Spent: Design…

On September 10th, 2026, Anastasiya Savran successfully defended her cumulative doctoral dissertation at TU Wien. As the first doctoral researcher of the STEAM – STEM – stART’em doctoral college to complete her PhD, her defense marks an important milestone for the doctoral college and our lab. The doctoral college is a cooperation between TU Wien…

In July 2026, Selina Reinhard participated in the Festival of Learning in Seoul, South Korea, a joint event combining three major conferences: Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED), Educational Data Mining (EDM), and Learning at Scale (L@S). The event brought together researchers from the fields of Learning Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, and Learning Technologies from around the…

Sonja Klein, Klaus Nigsch, and René Röpke participated in the pre-conference “Education in Times of AI – School Between Technology and Digital Humanism” on June 23rd, 2026 in Vienna, held ahead of the Digital Humanism Conference 2026. The event brought together educators, researchers, policymakers, and practitioners to discuss the opportunities and challenges of artificial intelligence…

Our former Erasmus+ student Tom Breuer recently presented his first peer-reviewed paper, stemming from research conducted for his Bachelor’s thesis, at the International Conference on Computer Supported Education (CSEDU 2026) in Benidorm, Spain. The paper “Incorporating Recommended Course Prerequisites into Similarity-Based Course Recommender Systems for Higher Education” was written together with co-author Prof. Dr. René…

From May 16th to 24th, 2026, Selina Reinhard and Sonja Klein attended the JTEL Summer School 2026 (JTELSS26), organized by the European Association of Technology-Enhanced Learning (EA-TEL). Around 100 researchers, including 60 PhD candidates from across Europe gathered in Sunny Beach, Burgas, Bulgaria, to discuss current challenges and opportunities in Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL). Throughout the…