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Beginning in October, the LTeD Research Lab offers new courses to students of the Faculty of Informatics at TU Wien. In the new course “Learning Technologies and Learning Analytics”, Master students receive the opportunity to dive into the fundamentals of learning technologies, learn about different technology used in education and explore the topic of learning…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…