The outbreak of the COVID-19 virus urged all members of the society to adopt COVID-responsible behavioral patterns and practice them in everyday life. Given the variability in its adoption, it is critical to understand psychological factors …
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, a lockdown was imposed in Austria, as part of which universities were also closed. To assess the impact of these measures on students’ well-being and learning, we conducted three surveys between April and June …
How do gender and age influence students' ability to cope with the sudden shift to digital learning? Do boys have an advantage because - as is usually assumed - they have a greater affinity for technology?
Can digital learning be a solution to enable international exchange and education in a sustainable way? At the Higher Education Conference 2021 of Austria’s Agency for Education and Internationalisation (OeaD) I discussed challenges and opportunities of digital learning alongside Günther Berger from the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences.
Highlights: (1) Adequate preparation (e.g., providing technical equipment, didactical adaptation of teaching materials, fostering digital literacy in students …) is needed for distance learning to succeed.(2) Disadvantaged students need special …
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, higher educational institutions worldwide switched to emergency distance learning in early 2020. The less structured environment of distance learning forced students to regulate their learning and motivation more …
This paper briefly describes the situation at Austria's educational institutions during COVID-19. Challenges as well as possible opportunities of the rapid transition to distance learning are briefly described.
I was invited to present the interim results of our project "Learning under COVID-19 conditions" at the networking even of the German-speaking Innovative Learning Environment Network (ILE).