News from the ISD

On November 7, 2025, the event "Schule im Wandel - Brücke zwischen Wissenschaft, Vielfalt und demokratischer Verantwortung" will take place at KIT as part of the lecture and seminar "Inklusive Bildung im Jugendalter" (Inclusive Education in Adolescence) in the educational science accompanying studies for the grammar school teaching profession. Various impulse talks as well as a variety of different institutions, centers and initiatives presenting themselves at the "Market of Opportunities" will bring together invited students and guests to exchange, inform and discuss the topic of "Inclusive Education".

We wish all participants an interesting and stimulating event!

As part of the KuMuS-ProNeD and DiäS projects, the team at the Ludwigsburg University of Education and KIT has developed three new training formats for PE teachers on the topics of health promotion, classroom disruptions and virtual reality. Interested schools and teachers can find more information in this flyer (download) and are welcome to contact Carolin Knoke, Jörg Greiner or Pierre Meinokat.

On March 24, 2025, Professor Britta Klopsch took part in the event “Better Education 2035 - Perspectives for a Successful Educational Future” in Berlin. In several discussion rounds, the participants discussed how education in Germany can be improved by 2035. Under the leadership of the education ministers from BW, RP and SH and the decisive moderation of the Wübben Stiftung Bildung, the publication “Better Education 2035" was produced, which also includes a contribution by Professor Britta Klopsch, together with Professor Anne Sliwka (University of Heidelberg).

In the interview with Stefan Troendle (SWR Kultur), Ms Klopsch talks about “This is how much digitalization school lessons can take”.
 

In the episode "Artificial intelligence, topic-oriented learning and further training on AI" of the podcast "Welle Lernen:digital", Professor Klopsch comments on how employees of a university that trains teachers receive further training on the topic of "digital media".

As part of the DiäS and KuMuS-ProNeD projects, an advanced training day for physical education teachers took place for the first time at KIT on 19.11.2024 in cooperation with the ZSL Regional Office Karlsruhe. Moritz Mödinger, Carolin Knoke, Pierre Meinokat and Philipp Rosendahl led the almost 30 teachers through the day and presented the latest findings from scientific research.

With Moritz Mödinger, Carolin Knoke, Pierre Meinokat and two posters, the ISD actively participated in the first conference of the competence network lernen:digital on the topic of "Shaping digital transformation for schools and teacher training". Exciting discussions and informative presentations were held on topics such as existing and future research and the possibilities of implementation in teacher training.

... to Moritz Mödinger and Philipp Rosendahl! Both were able to successfully complete their theses, supervised by Prof. Dr. Ingo Wagner, with their disputations in July 2024. Moritz Mödinger completed his doctorate on the topic of "Physical education in the context of digital transformation", Philipp Rosendahl on the topic of "360° videos as a teaching-learning medium and training tool".

On July 1, we had the pleasure of welcoming STEM teachers from the USA as part of an overseas program of the Goethe-Institut. During their visit, we introduced them to our two student labs MINT Bewegt Nachhaltig and MINT in Bewegung and held interesting discussions on the subject matter and, among other things, on teacher training and everyday school life in Germany and the USA.

The Seasonal School has been successfully completed! One highlight - among many others - was the inspiring keynote speech by Stephen Stirling on the topic of "Transformative Education". He emphasized that not only teaching, but the entire education system needs to be transformed in order to make schools sustainable and future-oriented.

As part of the program "Schule ohne Druck? Frank Seibert und Deutschlands spannendster Schulversuch" in the documentary series ARD Wissen, education expert Prof. Dr. Britta Klopsch answers questions about the requirements for future schools in an interview.

To this end, Dr. Lucia Happe, Kai Marquardt and Prof. Dr. Ingo Wagner presented the latest study results at the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) and discussed innovative educational potential with participants from all over the world.

The Faculty Teaching Award Humanities and Social Sciences 2024 is awarded to Prof. Dr. Britta Klopsch for her seminar "Deeper Learning in Schools - a practice-oriented approach to learning in the digital age". Congratulations from the entire ISD! To the official video

Ingo Wagner, Leander Scholz and Katja Gerstmaier presented the newly founded school laboratory "MINT Bewegt Nachhaltig" at the 19th LeLa annual conference. During the poster session, the lab was presented for the first time to representatives from various institutions in Germany and other interested parties.

As part of the KuMuS-ProNeD project, we were visited by Dr. Helena Rudi and Luisa Heyn from the University of Mainz on Monday, 19.02.2024, to discuss and test the transfer possibilities of 360° videos as innovative training support for dance classes. We are looking forward to developing and testing further 360° video scenarios for dance training together with Dr. Helena Rudi and Luisa Heyn.

Many thanks also to our colleague Alexander Hock from the Center for Technology-Enhanced Learning, who supported us in the technical implementation.