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Professor Zender and his team at the Chair of "Didactics of Computer Science | Informatics and Society" work on a wide range of topics related to educational technologies, the teaching methodology of computer science and socio-technical systems. He focuses on the use of immersive technologies such as virtual and augmented reality in teaching and learning settings. His activities concentrate on the design and development of such VR and AR systems. In his projects, Professor Zender always collaborates with a wide network of interdisciplinary partners from the fields of computer science, media didactics, media pedagogy and various other.
In addition, Professor Zender is the deputy speaker of the specialist group on educational technologies of the German Informatics Society (GI) and initiator of the GI working group on VR/AR-Learning.
- Consulting on the use of educational technologies in concrete teaching and learning settings
- Conception and development of learning-effective applications with virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR)
- Conducting lectures and training courses on the topic of "Teaching and Learning with VR/AR"
- Cooperation with companies and research institutions from vocational education and training: conception and development of teaching/learning systems, realisation of transfer events
- Cooperation with training institutions from the automotive industry in particular: development of VR simulations for training purposes
- Cooperation with companies from the IT sector (e.g. providers of learning systems): design and development of teaching/learning systems
- Cooperation with scientific institutions (universities, private research institutions, etc.): implementation of research projects, scientific events and transfer activities as well as community work
Teaching and Learning with Virtual and Augmented Reality
Accor Hotels Germany
SHS VIVEON realisation of training for interviewers
International executive headhunting company: development of customised personality test
Prof. Ziegler's expertise and that of his team lies in the field of psychological diagnostics and deals with all topics of personnel diagnostics in the HR life cycle. They focus on personality, intelligence and situational awareness. Ziegler and his team develop solutions to measure these in relation to requirements and to use them for performance or learning prediction. Therefore they use the full range of qualitative (e.g. interviews) and quantitative methods (e.g. tests, questionnaires, machine learning).
Prof. Ziegler has already carried out several successful projects with well-known companies in this area, involving the creation of competency models, employee surveys, annual appraisals or job aptitude diagnostics. Prof. Ziegler's working group also trains individuals or teams on topics of personnel diagnostics (e.g. assessment centers or interviews). In addition, Prof. Ziegler develops customized diagnostic processes or evaluates them.
- PC lab with 10 workstations and various performance and personality tests
- Online surveys
- Data analysis
- Consulting
- Trainings - wide range of topics
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Competence model development - Prof. Ziegler and his team have developed competence models for different professions for various clients and made them measurable
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Accor Hotellerie Deutschland GmbH: Development of competence models
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SHS VIVEON AG: Implementation of interviewer trainings
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International headhunting company for executives: Development of a customized personality test
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Evaluation and optimization - In these projects Prof. Ziegler looks at existing personnel processes, evaluates their quality from a psychological point of view and develops optimizations.