PhD Student
Contact
Telefon: +43 1 58801 194117
E-Mail: sonja.klein@tuwien.ac.at
About me
Before beginning my doctoral studies at TU Wien, I worked as a Learning Experience Designer and as an educational product design consultant, where I focused on conceptualizing and designing learning technologies by translating pedagogical principles into scalable products. As a PhD student, my work explores the Alignment of Understandability, pedagogical Reasoning and Explainability of AI-based learning technologies, students, and teachers.
Before my PhD, I completed my Bachelor’s in Educational Science as well as Communication and Journalism at the University of Vienna and my Master’s in IT and Learning at the University of Gothenburg.
Research Interests
Didactically grounded Educational Technology, Explainable AI, Algorithmic Transparency, Human-Centered Design, eDidactics
Teaching
- Informatics didactics (Didaktik in der Informatik)
- Seminar in Learning Technologies
- Learning Technologies and Learning Analytics
Publications
- Klein, S., Röpke, R. (2026): Toward the Alignment of Understandability, Reasoning, and Explainability in TEL. In: Mindful TEL: Learning Technologies Shaped with Intention, ECTEL 2026, Valencia, Spain, 14-18 September, 2026, Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham, Switzerland. [accepted for publication]