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October 5, 2026October 6, 2026newsBy Bibeg Limbu

Colaps at the ECTEL 2026 Conference

Paella-istic Contributions of Colaps at the ECTEL 2026 Conference “And with that, I declare EC-TEL 2026 in session..” With these words, the director of National University of Distance Education (UNED), Alejandro Cerdá, opened their doors for the participants of the 21st European Conference on Technology-Enhanced Learning (ECTEL) held from 14-18 September in Valencia, Spain. This year, ECTEL once again brought together leading researchers in educational technology, practitioners, educational developers, entrepreneurs, […]

July 31, 2026July 31, 2026news, researchBy ireneAIED, AIED2026, conferences, festival of learning

colaps at the Festival of Learning 2026

We had a great time at the Festival of Learning / AIED 2026 in Seoul, South Korea presenting our work, meeting old and new friends and colleagues 🙂 You can see a short video about our adventures here: https://youtu.be/7geVdmw_5J8?si=Aj-NSel8Mtn6-mLM This year, the group had 4 main contributions: Kai presented our paper “Beyond one-size-fits-all: personalizing computational proxies of the zone of proximal development through help-seeking behaviors“.This paper proposes a computational representation […]

July 29, 2026August 6, 2026job opportunities, newsBy irene

AI Literacy & Learner Modeling at colaps

AI-generated image that depicts a dialogue between a human and an LLM

We are excited to open a new PhD position at colaps at the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE) at the intersection of learner modeling, psychology, philosophy and generative AI. What’s the project about? The position is part of MORAL-ALIGN, a DFG-funded project in the context of the DFG Priority Programme 2573 “Rethinking Disinformation” (Re:DIS) exploring how generative AI systems can gradually shift their moral framing to match a user and how […]

May 12, 2026May 12, 2026colaps statements, newsBy irene

Congratulations, Cleo Schulten! 🎉

We are delighted to share that Cleo M. Schulten has successfully defended her PhD dissertation, “Learning in Hackathons: Proposing a methodological framework for the design, implementation and evaluation of interest-driven, community-based events”, at the Faculty of Computer Science, Universität Duisburg-Essen. The dissertation was awarded magna cum laude, a testament to the quality and rigor of four years of dedicated research. Cleo joined the COLAPS research group in 2021, and from the […]

January 22, 2026January 22, 2026newsBy Bibeg Limbu

AugMENTOR: Augmented Intelligence for Pedagogically Sustained Training and Education

In December 2025, we at the Colaps Group at the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE) successfully concluded the European H2020 AugMENTOR project (https://augmentor-project.eu) AugMENTOR’s project was led by an international consortium of thirteen (13) European Institutions. The Colaps augMENTOR team consisted of Prof. Dr. Irene-angelica Chounta, Bibeg Limbu, and Lisa van der Heyden. AugMENTOR adopts an augmented intelligence approach to develop personalised and collaborative learning paths that promote both foundational and […]