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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.

 

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ZeMKI Summer Party 2025

On July 2, 2025, ZeMKI celebrated its traditional summer party at the Linzer Straße location in bright sunshine and midsummer temperatures.

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Joyojeet Pal as ZeMKI Fellow in Bremen

The Center for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) at the University of Bremen welcomes media and technology expert Joyojeet Pal as a Visiting Research Fellow in June 2025.

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University:Future Festival 2025 – AI-Based Explainable Feedback in Higher Education

Lisanne Heilmann and Karsten D. Wolf from the Lab ‘Media & Education’ gave a talk on ‘Rubric-Based Explainable Feedback with AI-Assistance’ at this year’s University:Future Festival 2025 at the AI-Stage in Graz, Austria. In the talk, they present a workflow-based approach to using different AI and ML models to analyse multimodal submissions by students. The (…)

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Call for Papers for the Journal gamevironments Special Issue 2026

ZeMKI members Prof Dr Kerstin-Radde Antweiler, Prof Dr Karsten D. Wolf and Prof Dr Christian Schwarzenegger are guest editors for the currently advertised special issue “Beyond Play: The Transformative Power of Digital Gaming in a Deeply Meditized Society” of the journal gamevironments.

ZeMKI Visiting Research Fellows 2025

From over 150 applications, the steering committee of the Center for Media, Communication and Information Research at the University of Bremen selected five researchers who will work together with at least two ZeMKI labs in interdisciplinary research for four weeks each until the end of 2025.