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Lecture on “The Effects of Yoga on Sports Performance and Health”

The Effects of Yoga on Sports Performance and Health Lecture by Dr. Tilak Raj (https://www.tiyayoga.org/)   Yoga is much more than stretching or relaxation—it’s a complete system that reshapes how we move, think, and recover. Over the past decade, research has started to catch up with what practitioners have long known: yoga improves both the body’s mechanics and the mind’s resilience. In this talk, Dr Tilak Raj (PhD, Lincoln University; Level 4 […]

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Guest LectureBy Bibeg Limbu

Lecture on “Measuring Educational Innovation”

Lecturer: Erna Engelbrecht  Evaluating educational innovations is essential for determining their impact and potential for broader implementation. However, current course evaluation practices in higher education tend to emphasize student satisfaction and grades, often reducing evaluations to diagnostic tools. These approaches frequently overlook the perspectives of diverse stakeholders and lack a scholarly foundation due to their reliance on standardized metrics. Consequently, opportunities for individualized professional development among educators and impactful improvement […]

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Call for Teaching Assistants

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Call for Teaching Assistants Course: Introduction to Programming (Grundlegende Programmiertechniken), IP101 We are seeking enthusiastic and dedicated Teaching Assistants (TAs) for our upcoming Introduction to Programming course for the MIPSY bachelor program, scheduled for WiSe 2025/26. This course introduces students to fundamental programming concepts, problem-solving techniques, and basic software development skills, using Python. Responsibilities: Assist in delivering lab sessions and tutorials Provide guidance to students during coding exercises Help develop instructional materials and […]

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[Invited talk] Dr. Rwitajit Majumdar: “Context, Data and Inferencing: When Human-AI Meet to Learn”

On Wednesday June 18th at 10:30, we are happy to host Prof. Dr. Rwitajit Majumdar for an invited talk with the title: “Context, Data and Inferencing: When Human-AI Meet to Learn”. Dr. Rwitajit Majumdar is an Associate Professor at Kumamoto University, Japan, affiliated with the Research and Educational Institute for Semiconductors and Informatics, as well as the Graduate School of Social and Cultural Sciences, Division of Instructional System Studies and […]

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Lecture on VR based Cognitive-Behavioral Intervention for Long-distance Running- by Fernando Cardenas

Lecturer: Fernando Cardenas   Fernando presents his study, which investigates the impact of a virtual reality (VR) based mental training on long-distance runners preparing for races. Six participants took part in two different running races: the first without any mental training and the second after completing the virtual reality-based mental training. They used a single-subject multiple baseline design across individuals. Each participant received a virtual reality (VR) headset with an […]

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Lecture on “Introduction to Scien… <80200053>” – by Dr. Jan Schneider

Lecturer: dr. Jan Schneider  The presentation is an introductory lecture on conducting scientific research in Educational Technologies. Using the analogy of construction and building, this presentation aims to work as a site clearance or site preparation. This involves clearing the land of any existing structures, vegetation, and debris to make way for new construction. It often includes demolition, excavation, and grading to ensure the land is suitable for building foundations. […]

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Lecture on Attention biases- by Ali Soleymani

Lecturer: Ali Soleymani Attention biases—systematic tendencies to attend to certain stimuli over others—play a significant role in various psychological conditions, including substance use disorders and eating disorders. In this presentation, Ali will discuss the development and application of a free-viewing multi-stimulus eye-tracking task designed to assess attention biases toward disorder-specific cues. This task has demonstrated satisfactory reliability and criterion validity in measuring attention bias for alcohol versus soda cues. Building […]

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colaps: Mission and Vision Statement

Founded in 2021, the research group “Computational Methods in Modeling and Analysis of Learning Processes” (COLAPS) is one of the 13 scientific fields at the Department of Human-centered Computing and Cognitive Science (HCCS), Faculty of Computer Science, University of Duisburg-Essen. Our mission is to conduct innovative research on the integration of artificial intelligence and data analytics in education with the aim to model how people learn and to foster transformative […]

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