Lab Media & Education

The lab “Media and Education” researches educational processes in a deeply mediatised society.

Research focuses on

(a) Actor-centred analysis of audiovisual educational spaces such as YouTube and TikTok,

(b) the didactic and filmic analysis of explanatory videos and tutorials,

(c) the reconstruction of communicative figurations of informal learning, especially in the context of digital gaming,

(d) educational and pedagogical aspects of Gamevironments,

(e) the didactic design of digital learning and teaching environments with special consideration of active learning,

(f) sustainable development of open source software for teaching-learning processes,

(g) improving the learning and teaching experience of teaching-learning software (LX/TX),

(h) AI-based, highly informative feedback generation,

(i) critical educational software and code studies,

(j) and digital cognitive diagnostic modeling.