Fields of research
Research in the Departments of Metal and Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering and Information Technology focuses on the following areas:
- (Training) education of teachers
- Didactics of vocational learning in the occupational field of metal and mechanical engineering as well as electrical engineering and information technology (didactic approaches, didactic models, structure and process, learning and learning theory ...)
- Vocational field scientific approach
- Learning and work tasks
- Learning and working environments - setting (diversity)
- Work processes/work process knowledge
- Curriculum research and implementation, including learning field structured curricula
- Skills research, general and related to the Departments
- Digitalization: Industry 4.0, Internet of Things (IoT), etc. - Work structure, requirements and competence; developmental learning
- Media and media didactics: reality and virtuality, simulation; binary and multi-valued logics, signs and coding; construction, perception and intentionality (learning theories) ...
- Methodology, especially complex teaching methods
- Product and process-oriented performance assessment
- School development and quality