Dissertations

Roland Ambros

Topic: From university to school: process- and learner-centred approaches to teaching digital competences as part of 21st century skills

Supervisor: Fares Kayali

Dates: 2022 - ongoing

Contact: roland.ambros@univie.ac.at

Josephine Baird

Topic: Video game design and trans-subjectivities

Supervisor: Fares Kayali

Dates: 2021 - ongoing

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Christoph Braun

Topic: The virtual mapping of learning and teaching environments

Supervisor: Fares Kayali

Dates: 2021 - ongoing

Contact: Christoph.Braun@fhstp.ac.at

Natalie Denk

Topic: Addressing the Interplay between Gaming Culture and (School) Education: Didactics, Challenges and Potentials

Supervisor: Fares Kayali

Dates: 2023 - ongoing

Contact: natalie.denk@donau-uni.ac.at

Selina Gartner

Topic: (Re-)Connected Learning: Creating Community in Basic Digital Education Classes

Supervisor: Renate Motschnig (ZLB) and Veronika Wöhrer (BIWI)

Dates: 2024 (as part of dig!doc)

Contact: selina.gartner@univie.ac.at

Noémie Gfeller

Topic: Efficacy and long-term effects of interactive audiovisual media consumption on the development of linguistic competencies in multilingual preschool children.

Supervisor: Fares Kayali

Dates: 2022 - ongoing

Contact: noemiegfeller@gmail.com

Anna Kos

Topic: Developing a concept to improve child - parent interaction and the well being of long-term hospitalized children and their parents through songwriting/musiceducation (accompanied by the use of digital media) as part of the project „Your Smile“ at the general hospital Vienna (https://www.yoursmile.wien).

Supervisor: Fares Kayali

Date: 2022 - ongoing

Contact: annakos@live.at

Georg Nöhrer

Topic: To write or to let write. Attitudes, expectations and conduct of German teachers in relation to automatic text generation

Supervisor: Stefan Kramer (Institute for German Studies), Fares Kayali (Centre for Teacher Education)

Dates: 2022 - ongoing

Contact: georg.noehrer@univie.ac.at

Matthias Steinböck

Topic: Self-directed play and learning in formal environments through computer games

Supervisor: Fares Kayali

Dates: 2020 - ongoing

Contact: matthias.steinboeck@univie.ac.at

Petra Weixelbraun

Topic: Ctrl+Shift+Learn: Teacher Insights on Computational Empowerment in Basic Digital Education

Supervisor: Fares Kayali

Dates: 2024 (as part of dig!doc)

Contact: petra.francesca.weixelbraun@univie.ac.at

Georg Wendt

Topic: Developing video game literacy in the EFL classroom by analyzing games’ ‘evoked narratives’

Supervisor: Fares Kayali

Dates: 2022 - ongoing

Contact: georg.wendt@univie.ac.at