Open Research Tools for the Learning Technologies Innovation Lab

Orchestrating scientific work in educational research laboratories is demanding, especially when many interdisciplinary perspectives are involved. A monolithic approach does not suffice here. This paper describes an open-source architecture for an educational research laboratory. The presented system assists interdisciplinary scientists in implementing prototypes, evaluating new didactical approaches, researching collaborative learning processes, collecting learning analytics data, abstracting and automating experimental procedures, and securely monitoring progress within the lab, even in hybrid or remote setups. Due to both asynchronous and synchronous capabilities, the presented components make it easy to virtualize experiments, incorporate them in courses and lectures, and empower self-regulated but still monitorable learning processes. The ecosystem described originated in the context of collaborative educational Serious Games for interactive table-top displays but is implemented modular and scales well regarding concurrent experiments, connected clients, and other use cases like VR and smart environments

xAPI Made Easy: A Learning Analytics Infrastructure for Interdisciplinary Projects

Learning Analytics provides plenty of pedagogical uses. However, the integration of learning analytics must be accompanied by different perspectives: technical, organizational, and pedagogical. At this point, there are still gaps, e.g., the need to connect the various stakeholders and support the systematic, structured, and sustainable process. This paper presents different approaches to making the learning data standard xAPI for interdisciplinary projects easier by working on other starting points. Starting with a basic infrastructure to support the interdisciplinary collection of definitions for the standardized data format, it continues with a graphical user interface supporting different stakeholders. A modular tool for quickly connecting programming IDEs with the vocabulary is also presented. Last, a connector is shown for easier multi-modal data management using virtual reality as an example

Die Macht der Anerkennung im digitalen Raum - Die Transformation von Anerkennung und ihre Schattenseiten im digitalen Zeitalter

Die Digitalisierung transformiert tiefgreifend unsere Sozialität. So bleibt auch der Prozess der Anerkennung nicht von der digitalen Transformation verschont. Durch die Digitalisierung werden dabei insbesondere die im Anerkennungsprozess per se existierenden Problematiken der Subjektkonstitution sowie Differenz und Partizipation zwischen Subjekten geschürt. In diesen Problematiken werden vor allem Schattenseiten bei der Suche nach Anerkennung und Resonanz sowie die negativen Formen von Anerkennung – Missachtung, Demütigung usw. – durch die Digitalisierung deutlich