Category: General
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Learning Analytics Network Kickoff at TU Wien
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…
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JTEL Summer School in Greece
In May, Selina Reinhard attended the JTEL Summer School on Technology Enhanced Learning held on the island of Crete. The one-week program brought together researchers from around the world to explore current developments in Technology-Enhanced Learning and Learning Analytics. The offered program included a wide range of inspiring keynotes and interactive workshops on topics such…
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Computer Science in Education: Symposium at OCG
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…
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“I’m actually more interested in AI than in computer science” – Presenting our new paper at EDUCON 2025
The IEEE EDUCON is an IEEE Education Society flagship conference in the field of engineering education. This year the conference was held at Queen Mary University of London, where Lukas Lehner presented a paper he co-authored with Michael Lenke (Constructing Explainability Sonderforschungsbereich, Paderborn University) and our own Martina Landman. Their work, “I’m actually more interested…
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Workshop in India – Unplugged Power!
On April 2, 2025, Martina Landman from the TU Wien Informatics eduLAB conducted a workshop titled“Unplugged Power: Solving Computing Problems Without Computers”at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN). The workshop focused on introducing unplugged and robotics-based activities that support the teaching of core computing concepts without the need for programming or computers. Through hands-on…
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Upcoming courses in 2025S
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…
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EdTech Panel @ Tech4Rights Summit
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…
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Martina Landman is awarded with a netidee grant!
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…
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From Buzzword to Practice – New contribution to the OCG Journal!
New Publication in the OCG Journal We are thrilled to share our latest contribution from Martina Landman and as a Co-Author Lukas Lehner of the magazine article, “Vom Schlagwort zur Praxis: Computational Thinking in der Theorie und im eduLAB” (engl: From Buzzword to Practice: Computational Thinking in Theory and at the eduLAB”), published in the…
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Three days full of Games and Learning (GALA 2024)
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…