Category: Research
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Presentation: The OER Paradox in Ukraine
The study examines how recent Ukrainian copyright legislation affects the use and creation of open educational resources (OER). While broad educational exceptions enable the legal use of protected content in digital learning environments, the findings reveal an “OER paradox”: easier access to proprietary materials may reduce incentives to create openly licensed educational resources.
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Presentation: Motivation and Self-Regulated Learning in Secondary Schools with Flipped Classrooms: A Systematic Literature Review
At EdMedia 2026 in Edinburgh, Dr. Benedikt Brünner presented a systematic literature review on motivation and self-regulated learning in secondary school flipped classrooms. The findings indicate that flipped classroom approaches can positively influence motivation, self-efficacy, and participation, especially among low-achieving learners. The study also highlights the importance of effective instructional design and strong teacher support.
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Presentation: Code Meets Career: Employer Interpretations of Coding Bootcamp Graduates in Austria and Germany
The study explores how employers in Austria and Germany perceive coding bootcamp graduates, highlighting both their practical skills and motivation, as well as concerns about theoretical depth and project experience.
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Presentation: Digital Equipment Evolution and IT Activity of TU Graz study beginners (2011-2025)
Over the past 13 years, more than 14,000 freshmen at TU Graz have participated in the annual “Welcome Days” survey. Our latest study (2011–2025) reveals major shifts in students’ digital habits, including rising use of AI tools and tablets, alongside declining use of Wikipedia and open-source software. The findings highlight new challenges for digital sovereignty…
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Presentation: Prompt Transparency and Accountability in Organisational genAI Systems to Support Course Descriptions Improvement
At the STS Conference Graz 2026, we present a generative AI-based chatbot system designed to help improve course descriptions at Graz University of Technology. The aim is to support lecturers in structuring, refining and ensuring the quality of their course descriptions. A central concept of our presentation is prompt transparency. In contrast to non-transparent AI…
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Master Thesis: Topic-Aware Semantic Segmentation and Learning Objective Induction
On March 12, 2026, Thomas Plangger successfully defended his master’s thesis. In his work, he developed an end-to-end pipeline that transforms unstructured educational PDFs into structured learning content. The system applies large language models to identify semantic boundaries in texts and segment them into coherent chunks. These are subsequently grouped into higher-level Learning Objectives, forming…
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Future of the Digital Classroom: Students’ Perspectives
Slides from the PhD defense Future of the Digital Classroom: Students’ Perspectives on Educational Technologies that Enable Self-Regulated Learning in (A)synchronous Settings
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Master’s thesis: Creation of an LLM-based chatbot for secondary school level I
On November 13, 2025, Maximilian successfully defended his master’s thesis entitled “Creation of a chatbot based on large language models for secondary school students on the topic of quadrilaterals and its testing in the classroom.” Er hat einen Datensatz für ein Finetuning eines LLMs für die Sekundarstufe 1 durchgeführt. Darauf basierend einen hybriden Chatbot entwickelt,…
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Presentation: Developing and Testing a Peer-Review Process for Content Quality Assurance in MOOCs: A Case Study on an E-Assessment Course.
Slides from the presentation of our paper at 28th International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning54th IGIP International Conference on Engineering PedagogyInnovation via Collaborative Learning in Engineering Education
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Presentation: Prompting.School: Teaching AI Literacy through Guided Prompt Engineering Practice
Slides from the presentation of our paper at 28th International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning54th IGIP International Conference on Engineering PedagogyInnovation via Collaborative Learning in Engineering Education in the Special Session From Chalkboards to Chatbots: AI in Austrian Engineering Classrooms (C2C)
