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How we learn in virtual worlds: Another award for research work from Passau
How do people learn in virtual worlds? This question is the focus of the research area "Immersive Learning". Dr. Andreas Dengel (University of Würzburg) and Prof. Dr. Jutta Mägdefrau (University of Passau) have dealt scientifically with such learning processes and, in particular, examined the interplay of technological and subjective factors in the learning process and their influence on learning success. For their article on their theoretical framework model for investigating these relationships, Dengel and Mägdefrau have now also won the Best Full Paper Award of the Immersive Learning Research Network Conference (iLRN 2020) after the IEEE TALE Best Full Paper Award 2018.
Immerse yourself in virtual worlds in class - Passau researcher receives Best Paper Award
Immersive learning stands for immersion in an artificial learning environment. Computer science didactic Andreas Dengel, research associate at the University of Passau in the QLB project SKILL, in which innovative teaching and consulting concepts are being developed in teacher training, deals with this topic. One of his works has now been recognized at a conference in Wollongong, Australia.
Virtual Reality - A cooperation with the University of Passau
Diving into virtual worlds and learning something about exciting IT topics at the same time - this was the chance for pupils in the 4th and 5th grades of the BG and BRG Schärding.
Excursions to the computer science faculty of the University of Passau have already taken place regularly in recent years. This year a larger project could be initiated through a collaboration between Prof. Andrea Emmersberger and Andreas Dengel, who is working on learning with virtual reality as part of his doctorate.
Pioneering work in virtual learning worlds
The computer science didactic specialist Andreas Dengel examines how virtual reality influences learning success in the classroom. To this end, he had schoolchildren in Schärding test various virtual environments, some of which were created in seminars at the University of Passau.
Children's ideas about "digital media"
Workshop at the University of Würzburg as part of teacher training
In the course of the school education teacher training at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg, emphasis is placed not only on selected theoretical content, but also on testing and implementing it in practice.
Successful learning in computer science through virtual reality
The computer science educator from Passau, Andreas Dengel, had pupils test virtual worlds. The result: the young people learned something new in all virtual environments. Decisive for the learning success was, among other things, the face-to-face experience of the students, the feeling of 'being there'.
Micro: Bit workshop with the University of Würzburg
What actually is a computer, where can computers be found and how do you program them? 18 pupils from the seventh grade of the middle school dealt with these questions during a visit by student teachers at the University of Würzburg. As part of the seminar "Design perspectives of media and IT education in secondary schools" by Andreas Dengel (research associate at the chair for school education, University of Würzburg), the students were able to get to know various ideas of media education and IT education. The planning and implementation of the practical project was one of the main focuses of the seminar.
Micro: Bit workshop with the University of Würzburg
What actually is a computer, where can computers be found and how do you program them? 18 pupils from the seventh grade of the middle school dealt with these questions during a visit by student teachers at the University of Würzburg. As part of the seminar "Design perspectives of media and IT education in secondary schools" by Andreas Dengel (research associate at the chair for school education, University of Würzburg), the students were able to get to know various ideas of media education and IT education. The planning and implementation of the practical project was one of the main focuses of the seminar.
How we learn in virtual worlds: Another award for research work from Passau
How do people learn in virtual worlds? This question is the focus of the research area "Immersive Learning". Dr. Andreas Dengel (University of Würzburg) and Prof. Dr. Jutta Mägdefrau (University of Passau) have dealt scientifically with such learning processes and, in particular, examined the interplay of technological and subjective factors in the learning process and their influence on learning success. For their article on their theoretical framework model for investigating these relationships, Dengel and Mägdefrau have now also won the Best Full Paper Award of the Immersive Learning Research Network Conference (iLRN 2020) after the IEEE TALE Best Full Paper Award 2018.
Immerse yourself in virtual worlds in class - Passau researcher receives Best Paper Award
Immersive learning stands for immersion in an artificial learning environment. Computer science didactic Andreas Dengel, research associate at the University of Passau in the QLB project SKILL, in which innovative teaching and consulting concepts are being developed in teacher training, deals with this topic. One of his works has now been recognized at a conference in Wollongong, Australia.
Awards and keynotes
Best Paper Award (Full Paper), iLRN Conf. 2020, San Luis Obispo, California, US
Outstanding Student Paper Full Scholarship, Computational Thinking Education Conf. 2020, Hong Kong
Invited final lecture at the MNU state congress Speyer, October 22-23, 2019, Association for the Promotion of STEM teaching, lecture topic "Computer Science Replugged: Virtual Reality in Computer Science Classes"
2nd Place Science Slam 2018, University of Passau, Germany
2nd Place Best Graduate Student Paper, iLRN Conf. 2019, London, UK
Best Paper Award (Full Paper), IEEE TALE Conf. 2018, Wollongong, Australia
Presentations and conferences
CTE 2020, International Conference on Computational Thinking Education 2020, August 19-21, 2020, Hong Kong: Hong Kong. (Presentation, Session Chair, Scholarship Holder)
iLRN 2020, Immersive Learning Research Network Conference, June 21-25, 2020, San Luis Obispo, California, US. (Presentation, Program Chair, Session Chair, Doctoral Colloquium Organizer, Reviewer)
SiGCSE 2020, March 11-14, 2020, Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education Conference, Portland, US (presentation)
WiPCSE 2019, The 14th Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing Education, October 23-25, Glasgow, UK (presentation)
MNU state conference, Association for the Promotion of STEM teaching, October 22-23, 2019, Speyer, Germany (keynote / main lecture)
35th Mainfränkischer Ausbildertag, IHK Würzburg-Schweinfurt, October 22nd, 2019, Würzburg (lecture)
iLRN 2019, Immersive Learning Research Network Conference, 23-27 June 2019, London, UK. (Presentation)
26. Didactic discussions, promoting IT education, 27.-29.3.2019, Königstein, Germany (participation in the working group "Artificial Intelligence in IT Lessons")
ILTB 2019, Computer Science Teachers Day Bavaria 2019, 25.03.2019, Bayreuth, Germany. (Lecture)
IEEE TALE 2018, International Conference on Teaching, Assessment and Learning for Engineering. Wollongong, Australia. (two presentations, reviewer for the Program Committee)
IML Conference 2018, Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Education and Digitization in the Media, Information and Knowledge Society. 23-24 November 2018, Passau, Germany. (Conference coordination, organizing committee, program committee, program chair, presentation)
U.EDU Conference 2018, Teaching and Learning with Digital Media, October 18, 2018, Kaiserslautern, Germany. (Presentation)
WiPSCE 2018, The 13th Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing Education, 4.10.-6.10.2018, Potsdam, Germany. (Presentation)
iLRN 2018, Immersive Learning Research Network Conference, June 24-29, 2018, Missoula, Montana / USA. (Presentation, poster presentation)
VR SYMPOSIUM 2018, Virtual Reality in Psychotherapy Research, June 20, 2018, Regensburg, Germany (poster presentation)
CTE 2018, International Conference on Computational Thinking Education 2018, June 14-16, 2018, Hong Kong: Hong Kong. (Poster presentation)
WiPSCE 2017, The 12th Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing Education, November 8-10, 2017, Nijmegen, Netherlands. (Poster presentation)
INFOS 2017, IT education to understand and shape the digital world, September 13-15, 2017, Oldenburg, Germany. (Presentation)
ILTB 2017, 10th day of IT teachers Bavaria, March 14, 2017, Passau, Germany. (Organizing Committee)