An Introduction to the Department

The chair of psychology of learning and instruction provides course work and research in the popular and highly competitive academic tracks of psychology (Bachelor, Master) and educational sciences. The main areas of interest for our basic and applied research projects are smart learning, teaching, and instruction – with a particular focus on the design and evaluation of cognitively activating learning tasks and interactive feedback strategies.

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News

Oct 30, 2024

Podcast with Susanne Narciss: Learning from errors an failure in edicational contexts"

Oct 30, 2024

Special Issue „Learning from Errors and Failure in Educational Contexts“

Jul 23, 2024

Finale of the VerDatAs project: Results available to the public under free licenses

The Chair

Chair Holder

Since summer semester 2016, Prof. Dr. S. Narciss has been leading the professorship for the psychology of teaching and learning. She is an expert on feedback. Her research interests include teaching and learning with new media, task design and feedback, the promotion of independent learning, and the promotion of motivation in instructional situations.

Seniorprofessor

During the period from 1993 to 2016 Prof. Dr. H. Körndle led the professorship for the psychology of teaching and learning. His special interests are teaching and learning with digital media, task design, knowledge structuring, human-computer interaction and the topic of motor learning.

Team

Our team is characterized by a shared interest in the research of psychology of learning and instruction. Here you can find out more about the career and the research interests of the members of our team.

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Research
In the field of Smart Teaching, we focus on the professionalisation of pedagogical staff. We are developing concepts for the active, reflected use of learning materials in the area of smart learning. We implement Smart Instruction by designing innovative instructional scenarios.

Education
We teach and supervise students of psychology in the bachelor's and master's degree in Human Performance in Socio-Technical Systems (HPSTS). For teaching degrees students, we offer classes and lectures in the field of the psychology of learning and instruction.