Education in the Digital World

Stakeholders in the German education system should be able to assess new technologies and their effects in a differentiated manner and use their potential. Therefore, the Institute researches and develops digital educational media and tools, builds digital teaching-learning infrastructures as well as information platforms and makes them available to educational practitioners. These digital infrastructures are not only used in schools and universities, but also in the field of continuing education. Here, DIPF has reached a leading position in facilitating continuing education and testing low skilled persons for the labour market.

In order to expand the digital development of the German education system, it is also necessary to offer initial and further training to pedagogical staff regarding the use of digital technology. For teachers to use digital educational media in a didactically meaningful way, they must be trained in the critical and reflective use.

Furthermore, DIPF works in technology-based assessment, analyses the effects of digitally supported education and its infrastructure and makes the findings available to international educational research.

Projects

• CERES – Connecting the EdTech Research EcoSystem
• CORE – Critical Thinking in Online Learning Environments in Higher Education
• DiSO – Digital Teaching/Learning & Student Outcomes: A Second Order Meta-Analysis
• Digi-EBF II – Meta-Project "Digital Education II"
• EABU – Emergence and Reducation of Educational Inequalities in Childhood and Adolescence
• EiKlar – EEG in the classroom
• FLINK – How to Read Fluently: Individual Intervention of Reading Competencies
• GEN-CORE – Generic Critical Online Reasoning in Higher Education
• ICILS 2028 – International Computer and Information Literacy Study
• INCLASS – Inclusion of Children on the Autism Spectrum in School
• KI-Lit-Edu – AI Indexing at Literature Information Systems for Educational Research
• KONTEXT Grundschule – Cooperatively Created InfoTEXTs for Primary Schools
• Klima2know – Youth-Oriented Information on Climate Change on the German Education Server
• MASK – Modeling of Integrated Academic-Language Compentences
• ML2MT – From Machine Learning to Machine Teaching – Making Machines AND Humans Smarter
• MYSKILLS – Identifying Professional Competencies (BKE)
• Mental Health in School
• NEPS TBT: Work Package Technology Based Testing
• National Report on Education
• OERinfo – community platform for Open Educational Resources
• PISA-LDW – Assessing Competencies for Learning in the Digital World
• PREDICT – Prediction Generation as a Tool to Activate Children’s Prior Knowledge and Improve Learning
• PROMPT – Optimizing Self-Regulated Learning Processes With Digital Prompts
• ReCo – Automatically Processing Text Responses from Assessments
• TPL-basics – Conditions of acquiring operational knowledge for solving technical problems
• ZIB – Centre for International Student Assessment
• alea.schule – Platform for Formative Assessment
• lernen:digital – Competence Network for a Digital Transformation of Schools and Teacher Training
• zEbra – Social Belonging in the Real and Digital World
• ​Evaluation of Media Literacy Workshops for School Students Organised by Hessischer Rundfunk​