On the ViDSS Supervisors' Day 2022 we had the pleasure to work with instructors from various fields of the social sciences on how to best support doctoral candidates.
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.
As part of a symposium on Implicit Theories I held a talk about the associations between Implicit Theories, academic self-concept, and the well-being of students.
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).
I was honored to be interviewed by Nikolas Forgó for the Ars Boni podcast about learning under COVID-19 with my colleague Flora Fassl.
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’ …
COVID-19 and its containment measures have uniquely challenged adolescent well-being. Following self-determination theory (SDT), the present research seeks to identify predictors of well-being in terms of positive emotion and intrinsic learning …
In the wake of COVID-19, university students have experienced fundamental changes of their learning and their lives as a whole. The present research identifies psychological characteristics associated with students’ well-being in this situation. We …