Chair holder of the junior chair

Since 01.01.2024, Jacqueline Schmidt has held the newly created Junior chair for Business Education, in particular Digitalization in Educational and Working Environments.

Jacqueline Schmidt studied Business Education at Leipzig University, where she also completed her doctorate. She successfully completed her dissertation entitled "The basic knowledge of artificial intelligence of (prospective) teachers in the vocational education sector - model-based test development and validation" in September 2023. In her research, she mainly deals with questions of digital transformation in vocational education processes. In particular, she focuses on the assessment and target group-oriented promotion of AI-related skills of (prospective) vocational training personnel.  

since 01/2024 Dresden University of Technology

Junior Professor for Business Education, esp. digitalisation in educational and working environments / Faculty of Business Administration and Economics

10/2018 - 12/2023 University of Leipzig

Research assistant, doctoral candidate / Institute for Business Education

• Degree: Dr rer. pol. (summa cum laude)
• Doctorate on the topic: "The basic knowledge of artificial intelligence among (prospective) teachers in the vocational education sector - model-based test development and validation"

04/2018 - 09/2018 University of Leipzig

Research assistant / Institute for Business Education

10/2016 - 10/2018 University of Leipzig

Studied Business Education with English as a second subject

• Degree: Master of Science

10/2013 - 12/2016 University of Leipzig

Studied Business Education with English as a second subject

• Degree: Bachelor of Science

• Use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the vocational education and training sector
• Modelling and assessment of AI-related competences
• Quantitative methods of empirical (vocational) education research
• Digitalised teaching-learning environments

Membership Full member of the German Association for Educational Sciences (DGfE)

Section 04: Vocational and business education

Section 07: Empirical Educational Research

Fellowship

Teaching Fellow (tandem with Prof Dr Roland Happ) of the KI-Campus (12/2020 - 09/2021)

Honorary position 2007 - 2014                                

Voluntary work in children's and youth work in the Protestant parishes of Windhausen and Badenhausen

ARTICLE

• Schmidt, J., & Happ, R. (2022). Findings from a teaching and research project on the integration of content on AI applications in prospective vocational school teachers. In D.-K. Mah & C. Torner (Eds.), Teaching artificial intelligence with open learning opportunities at universities. Experiences and insights from the AI Campus Fellowship Programme (pp. 57-72). KICampus.
• Schmidt, J., & Happ, R. (2022). Subject-specific knowledge, attitudes and beliefs about artificial intelligence applications among business education students. In K. Kögler, U. Weyland & H. H. Kremer (Eds.), Yearbook of Vocational and Business Education Research 2022 (pp. 89-102). Barbara Budrich publishing house.
• Heidel, S., Schmidt, J., & Moschner, U. (2023). Informal learning opportunities for the acquisition of economic and financial knowledge among young adults without prior economic knowledge in Germany - the (special) role of parents. In M. Hommel, C. Aprea, & K. Heinrichs (Eds.), bwp@ Profile 8: Networks - Structures of knowledge, actors and processes in vocational education and training. Digital commemorative publication for Bärbel Fürstenau on her 60th birthday. 2023. S. 1-21.

LECTURES

• Schlicht, J., & Schmidt, J. (2020). Acceptance-building measures and participatory processes in the introduction of AI. Lecture with workshop part at the network meeting "Work and Innovation" of the IMU Institute Berlin and the Institute for Applied Computer Science (InfAI) e. V. on 09.10.2020. Leipzig
• Schmidt, J. (2021). KI-Campus project seminar - teaching concept and accompanying study. Presentation at the research colloquium of Prof. Dr Manuel Förster at the Technical University of Munich on 26.05.2021. Online.
• Schmidt, J. (2021). KI-Campus - Teaching concept and accompanying study. Presentation at the research colloquium of the chairs of Prof. Dr Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia and Prof. Dr Christian Dormann at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz on 13.07.2021. Online.
• Schmidt, J., & Happ, R. (2021). Integration of learning opportunities on AI applications into business education teaching - possibilities of using the AI Campus. Presentation at the annual conference of the DGfE section on vocational and business education on 16 September 2021. Bamberg (online).
• Schmidt, J., & Happ, R. (2022). Knowledge, attitudes and beliefs toward applications of artificial intelligence of prospective vocational teachers. Presentation at the EARLI SIG14 Conference on 18 August 2022. Paderborn.
• Schmidt, J., & Happ, R. (2022). Validation of a questionnaire to assess subject-specific knowledge of artificial intelligence (AI) applications for prospective vocational teachers. Presentation at the annual conference of the DGfE section on vocational and business education on 28/09/2022. Freiburg.
• Schmidt, J. (2023). The basic knowledge of prospective teachers on artificial intelligence - content modelling and empirical findings. Presentation at the annual conference of the DGfE's Vocational and Business Education section on 7 September 2023.

• "Integrating artificial intelligence into business education training for vocational school teachers" (KiWiPäd project) (12/2020-09/2021)
• "KiWiPäd international - Transfer of a digitally supported course on artificial intelligence in vocational education in the Arqus network" (01/2023-12/2023)
• Leipzig Chance for Science (project duration 06/2022 - 12/2022)

10/2023 Pre-Doc Award of the University of Leipzig

The Institute of Business Education is funded in the 7th cohort as a trio consisting of Elisa Wagner, Dr Jacqueline Schmidt and Prof Dr Roland Happ.

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