Dec22025 by Heather WehnerNo Comments
Moving Education Towards Didactical Intelligence

Moving Education Towards Didactical Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence, Event, Invited talk, Learning Analytics
ChatGPT and other GenAI tools are said to be good for learning. But does their usage really empower learners, or does it overwhelm them instead? Studies from Highly- Informative Learning Analytics (HILA) programs show how complex the effects of such AI-tools can be. While dashboards can potentially improve students’ learning outcomes, AI feedback can sometimes be helpful and sometimes be demotivating for students, depending on their feedback literacy. In a recent presentation at IWM Lectures Hendrik Drachsler argues that we need more research into Didactical Intelligence – a framework for understanding when, how and for whom AI and Learning Analytics truly improves learning and when not. Technology alone doesn’t guarantee better outcomes; its success depends on thoughtful integration into pedagogy. He therefore presented the Highly-Informative Learning Analytics research platform. This…
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Nov62025 by Nina MouhammadNo Comments
New Pub: From Nervous to Noteworthy: Evaluating SPEAKS

New Pub: From Nervous to Noteworthy: Evaluating SPEAKS

Competence development, Conference, Conference, Higher Education
Public speaking can be nerve-wracking, but it’s also a skill every professional needs. Many students leave higher education feeling unprepared to speak confidently in front of an audience. Traditional courses exist, but providing enough guidance to every student is time- and resource-intensive. This is where SPEAKS comes in. SPEAKS (Speech content Preparation for Effective and Authentic Knowledge Sharing) is an educational software designed to guide students through preparing the content of their speeches. The tool and its evaluation were presented at ECEL 2025 in a paper authored by Nina Mouhammad, Jan Schneider, Roland Klemke and Daniele Di Mitri as part of the HyTea-project, highlighting its potential to support students in developing better speech content and becoming more confident regarding public speaking. The tool uses a fully scripted, chat-based interface with…
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Apr122023 by Atezaz AhmadNo Comments
Paper and presentation about the topic of detecting disengaged reading at LAK23

Paper and presentation about the topic of detecting disengaged reading at LAK23

Conference, Conference, Event, Higher Education, Publication, Research topic, Self-Regulation, Target group
At the recent Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference (LAK23), Daniel Biedermann presented his paper "Detecting the Disengaged Reader - Using Scrolling Data to Predict Disengagement during Reading," to shed light on the potential for early detection of disengagement in readers. The paper presents a unique method for early disengagement detection that relies solely on the classification of scrolling data. By transforming scrolling data into a time series representation, each point of the series represents the vertical position of the viewport in the text document. Time series classification algorithms are then used to evaluate the data.The results were promising, with the method able to classify disengagement early with up to 70% accuracy. However, the study also observed differences in performance depending on which texts were included in the training dataset. Biedermann…
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Mar172020 by Jan SchneiderNo Comments
Teacher-Student-AI Co-Orchestration in Educational Settings

Teacher-Student-AI Co-Orchestration in Educational Settings

Workshop
On the 4th and 5th of March 2020 in Bochum the international workshop on Teacher-Student-AI co-orchestration in education took place. Participants in the workshop include Vincent Aleven, Ken Holstein and Bruce McLaren from Carnegie Mellon University, Manolis Mavrikis and Mutlu Cukurova from University College London, Anouschka van Leeuwen from Universiteit Utrecht, Jenny Olsen from École Polytechnique Féderale de Lausanne (EPFL), Inge Molenaar from Radboud Universiteit, Nikol Rimmel from Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Knut Neumann from the Leibniz Institut für die Pädagogik der Naturwissenschaften und der Mathematik, and Jan Schneider from the DIPF. AI and Education Workshop Programm During the workshop, researchers presented their research with the purpose to identify common challenges and propose ideas and research directions to solve them. Most of the institutes are working on different learning scenarios and therefore trying…
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Jan302020 by Jan SchneiderNo Comments
Learntec keynote

Learntec keynote

Conference, Keynote
From the 28th to the 30th of January the Learntec Europe’s #1 fair on digital learning took place. There Jan Schneider gave a presentation about Multimodal Learning Analytics. During the presentation, he gave a live demonstration of the Multimodal Learning applications developed by the EduTec team such as the Dancing Coach, Presentation Trainer, the Booth, LearningHub, and Visual Inspection Tool.
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