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 …
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).
On the 21st of May I was invited to talk at the 26th meeting of the Monitoring Board for Children’s Rights (Austrian Federal Ministry for Family and Youth) about the challenges and chances of distance learning during COVID-19 and how it affected students learning and well-being.
The sudden switch to distance education to contain the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally altered adolescents’ lives around the globe. The present research aims to identify psychological characteristics that relate to adolescents’ …