Ongoing research projects
ComP-ASS - Computer-assisted learning and teaching in the skilled trades with interactive assistance systems
Project duration: 01.09.2021 - 31.08.2024
Initial situation
The expansion of digital teaching and learning offerings is one approach to meeting the constantly changing educational needs in industrial-technical occupational fields. The development and use of digital teaching-learning settings are also linked to challenges.
The ComP-ASS project is dedicated to improving the quality of teaching-learning offerings for further training in the skilled trades using digital, interactive and tutorial assistance systems, with a focus on supporting occupational field-specific training needs and enabling individual learning paths.
Objectives
The project pursues three objectives:
(1) An existing "CNC learning place" for teaching CNC skills for the woodworking trade as part of a digital further training offer will be further developed. Particular focus will be placed on the practical relevance and target group-oriented design of the learning concept. Innovative formats such as simulations, VR/AR or gamification elements will also be integrated.
(2) The second objective is to develop a tutorial pilot system that guides and assists learners on the "CNC learning platform". The guidance system provides users with suggestions for learning paths based on the targeted evaluation of usage data. This supports individual learning strategies and enables adaptive learning in the digital teaching-learning space.
(3) Objective 3 focuses on supporting employees of training providers or trainers in the skilled trades, who have little or no didactic training, in the design of target group-appropriate, digital teaching-learning offerings. An Interactive Didactic Assistance System (IDA) is being developed for this purpose, which guides the educational stakeholders in carrying out all analysis steps and necessary decisions in the context of developing teaching-learning concepts. Methodological recommendations or best-practice examples are also provided based on the input of the educational stakeholders.
Further information
The chair is responsible for work package 3: Development and testing of the Interactive Didactic Assistance System IDA and thus primarily focuses on the third objective.
Project management
Project staff
ESF junior research group "FioKo" - Promoting women through individual and organizational skills in education and work (STEM)
Project duration: 01.01.2023 - 31.12.2024
Although the advancement of women is regularly called for by politicians and society, women are still underrepresented in science and large parts of the economy.
Valuable findings have already been generated in the past with regard to the reasons for the underrepresentation of women. Nevertheless, our knowledge of the impact of practical measures to promote women is still very limited. It is therefore necessary to take a comprehensive look at the range from school education to professions in the STEM sector in Saxony.
In order to achieve this, not only are two universities (TUD, TUBAF) and two universities of applied sciences (Mittweida University of Applied Sciences, Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences) working together in this project, but cooperation is also planned with numerous other organizations, including schools and vocational schools, companies and start-ups in the STEM sector as well as mentoring and coaching networks.
The junior research group is made up of female graduates from various disciplines such as economics, psychology, education and social sciences. The majority of them bring with them the experience and specialist knowledge resulting from their previous collaboration in the junior research group GAP - Gender Proportions in University Projects (term: 2020-2022).
