We are EDEN

“Let’s embrace computational thinking and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) including AI-Tools as powerful learning accelerators, advance them, and open them up for ever more people and wiser action.”

Our mission is to support learning ideas, concepts, techniques, and a broad range of interdisciplinary applications of computer science in a way that is engaging, inspirational, and formative for all actors involved in the learning process.
This creates the foundation for well-informed, knowledge-based, and mindful professional action.
Rooted in technology-enhanced computer science learning and research at an academic level, we aim to transfer our experience to formal and informal life-long learning for a vast variety of target groups and subject areas, including students, children, migrants, medical doctors, social workers, managers and people with special needs. In particular, we address and research the rapidly changing challenges urgently needed to be met by educators at the secondary level, by academic staff, by curriculum designers, and by managers and consultants.

Our current key areas of research and interest include

Increasing engagement, effectiveness, and motivation to learn:
  • Person-Centered technology enhanced Learning (PCeL)
  • learner-centered approaches to computational thinking and developing professional skills
  • significant learning communities (SILCs)
  • language technology
  • game-enhanced learning of computer science concepts
  • technology-enhanced mentoring
  • neuroscientific foundations of experiential learning
ICT for inclusion:
  • Human-Centered Design applications for learners with special needs
  • mobile language-learning apps, e.g. for newcomers to Austria
  • bridging digital gaps
  • Life-long learning of digital and future competencies and programming
Other contemporary themes such as:
  • Learning analytics, statistical methods for evaluating learning
  • Interfaces to translational science
  • Communication in agile management and diverse teams, cross-cultural communication and facilitation of significant learning

Teaching

Since Computer Science in Austrian high schools is a highly integrative subject with a strong interdisciplinary component, we cooperate with teacher centers for teacher education in all fields to help preventing too narrow specializations for teachers. In addition to subject specific teacher education the TEL work group helps developing scenarios for effective use of ICT for education across many subject areas and different audiences.

The TEL group is based at the Faculty of Computer Science and has interfaculty, national and international cooperation with scientists from humanities and different science areas (social sciences, mathematics, physics, statistics, etc.).

PCL and its Connection to CSLEARN-Educational Technologies

A major share of research and practice at CSLEARN is devoted to Person Centered Learning (PCL). It is the guiding paradigm in numerous courses, theses, and activities.

» Learn more about PCL