Immersive Quantified Learning Lab

The goal of the research project KAINE (Knowledge based learning platform with Artificial Intelligent structured content) is to better take into account the prior knowledge and experience of the participants in the learning process through AI, so that they can continue their education more efficiently.

Part-time continuing education is increasingly caught between the conflicting demands of family and work compatibility, ever shorter continuing education cycles, the imparting of increasingly complex knowledge, through more complex competence profiles from an interdisciplinary context, increasing demands on learning efficiency, the opening of continuing education for new educational biographies as well as a sustainable transfer of knowledge into everyday business life. The best possible resolution of this tension implies a mandate for research, development and testing of intelligent teaching-learning offers.

The research project KAINE comprises three aspects in the development field III, which complement each other and in interaction promise a great added value for the teaching-learning process in continuing vocational training. First, the algorithm-based individualization of the learning process, implemented by methods of artificial intelligence, and the learning journeys (curriculum) by using user and usage data for clustering (industry, prior knowledge, professional experience) in combination with learning analytics (learning habits).

The almost barrier-free accompaniment of the learning process by a voice or chatbot enables the adaptive support of the learning process independent of time and space. For learning status diagnostics, the learning process is compared with the learner model by means of a guided interview and, if necessary, individualized assistance is offered. In addition, individual learning needs are broadly addressed by specific supplementary material, which is made available through the algorithm-based structuring of unstructured learning materials.

The knowledge transfer of the learned new competencies into the company is supported by a dialog-oriented consulting system. Specific assistance is offered for the individual transfer and implementation phases. Regular surveys of former participants continuously improve the consulting process and increase the sustainability of continuing vocational training. The testing of the new learning assistance systems is carried out by the practical partners, among others, in the in-service continuing education course "Digital Transformation. Co-determine. Mitgestalten" for works councils.

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The anticipating physics textbook, which we are developing in the HyperMind project, is a dynamically adaptive personal textbook and enables individual learning. HyperMind starts at the micro level of the physics textbook, which contains the individual forms of presentation, so-called representations, of a textbook - such as the text of a textbook with a certain proportion of technical terms, formulas, diagrams or images.

The static structure of the classic book is dissolved. Instead, the book‘s content is portioned and the resulting knowledge modules are linked associatively. In addition, the modules are supplemented with multimedia learning content, which can be called up on the basis of attention (eye) data.

Project website Hypermind

The topic of this project is the exploration of innovative human-technology interactions (HTI), which, by merging the real and digital worlds (augmented reality), makes the connection between experiment and theory comprehensible, tangible and interactively explorable in real time for students of STEM subjects.

Knowledge can be shared via the Internet. However, most information is limited to "explicit knowledge" such as text and not "implicit knowledge" as  how the experience of experiencing something oneself. The aim of this project is to record these experiences with the help of sensors and to make them available to others.

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In order to improve the readability of texts, they must first be read by a large group of people, the eye movement recorded and evaluated. GazeSynthesizer generates a data set based on the measurements on a few pages and can simulate artificial eye movements with the help of Deep Learning to simulate the readability of unknown texts depending on parameters such as age or cultural background.

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