Research Projects

Since the coronavirus pandemic, religious services have been regularly broadcast online. Religious communities have been using social media for communication for many years. And the first robots are already being used in religious contexts. AI tools are already creating sermons, and there are apps that provide pastoral counseling. There is no question that religious practices (…)

Based on our own needs regarding collaborative work, methodological expansion, fair data usage, and support for open research processes, ZeMKI has been developing OpenQDA since January 2023. You can use the software at https://openqda.org/ and find the source code and developer documentation at https://github.com/openqda. The current special features of OpenQDA are: As a web-based application (…)

With the rise of participatory media over the past decades, a ‘new culture of learning’ (Gee 2008; Thomas and Brown 2011) has been described, in which people develop expertise in domains outside formal education, vocational training or structured apprenticeships. Ito et al. (2009: 17) coined the term ‘geeking out’ for media-rich informal learning processes, in (…)

Project management: Prof. Dr. Karsten D. Wolf & Prof. Dr. Andreas Breiter Funding institution: BMBF – Federal Ministry of Education and Research The joint project IMPACT promotes the improvement of higher education through the scalable use of artificial intelligence (AI) methods for the (partially) automated analysis of texts. The fundamental aim of the project is (…)

Project management: Prof. Dr. Karsten Wolf (ZeMKI, University of Bremen), Prof. Dr. Chrisitan Pentzold ZeMKI, University of Bremen) Participating institutions: ZeMKI, University of Bremen, RWTH Aachen University Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) In four sub-projects, the joint project investigates digital extracurricular learning and education-related action practices of young people in an interdisciplinary (…)

Head: Prof. Dr. Karsten D. Wolf Foundation: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) Duration: 2017 – 2020 Around 7.5 million people in Germany are functionally illiterate and around 20 percent of 15-year-olds are at or below level 1 according to PISA. “otu.lea” is an online test environment for functionally illiterate people and teachers in literacy (…)

Project management: Dr. Karsten Wolf Funding institution: Federal Ministry of Education and Research Project duration: 2016-2019 Under the guiding principle of reflection-oriented teacher education (reflective practitioner), the coherence of teacher education is strengthened by linking theory and practice and by interlinking the various elements of teacher education. Up to now, teacher training has often taught (…)

Project management: Prof. Dr. Karsten D. Wolf (ZeMKI-Lab “Media Education and Educational Media”) Funding institution: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), European Social Fund of the European Union (ESF) Project duration: 2016 – 2019 Learning using digital media is now widespread at nursing schools, and a wide range of eLearning materials are also available (…)