Leibniz Institute for Knowledge Media

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Leibniz Institute for Knowledge Media
Leibniz Institute for Knowledge Media
Leibniz Institute for Knowledge Media
Category: research Institute
Carrier: Foundation "Media in Education"
Consist: since 2001
Legal form of the carrier: non-profit foundation under private law
Seat of the wearer: Institute
Membership: Leibniz Association
Facility location: Tübingen
Arose from: German Institute for Distance Learning Research
Type of research: Basic research , application research
Areas of expertise: Psychology , communication science , neuroscience
Basic funding: 50% federal, 50% federal states
Management: Ulrike Cress (Director of the Leibniz Institute for Knowledge Media)
Employee: approx. 200 (as of March 2019)
Homepage: http://www.iwm-tuebingen.de

The Leibniz Institute for Knowledge Media (IWM) Tübingen is a non-university research institute of the Leibniz Association that researches knowledge acquisition and knowledge communication with digital technologies.

history

The IWM emerged from the German Institute for Distance Learning Research (DIFF). On the recommendation of the Science Council, the DIFF was closed in 2000. The state of Baden-Württemberg was against the intention to close.

At the same time, the Science Council recommended the establishment of the Institute for Knowledge Media (IWM) as a continuation of the Department of Applied Cognitive Science under the direction of Friedrich Wilhelm Hesse , who was previously head of this department at DIFF. The Institute for Knowledge Media was founded in 2001 and accepted into the Leibniz Association. Ulrike Cress has headed the institute since January 1st, 2017 .

research

At the Leibniz Institute for Knowledge Media (IWM) it is investigated which processes take place in human information processing and how these can be influenced or supported by digital media.

In numerous projects and collaborations with research and practice partners, the IWM makes a contribution to the research, realization and implementation of innovative media-based teaching / learning scenarios. This fundamental research, which is oriented towards social and cognitive processes, provides insights for practice. The IWM particularly addresses the practical fields of schools, universities, internet use, knowledge work and museums. Examples of this are the portal e-teaching.org , an information and qualification portal for the use of digital media in university teaching , the Tübingen Digital Teaching Lab (TüDiLab) operated in cooperation with the University of Tübingen, or the use of interactive tables to present exhibits in museums or to support collaboration in the context of knowledge-intensive work. The Internet portal Wissensdialoge.de is operated by alumni of the IWM .

IWM exterior view

Institute

The IWM is a non-profit, non-university research institute of the Leibniz Association that empirically researches how people acquire, apply, convey and exchange knowledge with digital media. It looks at cognitive, motivational, emotional and social processes in the use of digital media in the context of social and technical developments. It also addresses the potential and risks that this results in for human experience and behavior.

Research at the IWM is divided into the areas of individual use of knowledge media , social use of knowledge media, and cross- research activities . The subject of the research area " Individual use of knowledge media" is the knowledge- related use and processing processes of individual learners with digital information offers . The research area is divided into three working groups and a junior research group. The research area Social Use of Knowledge Media researches the potentials and dangers of using digital communication and cooperation media in collaboration and collaborative knowledge acquisition. It also consists of three working groups and a junior research group.

The research results of the IWM refer to the following five fields of practice across all working groups:

  • Teaching and learning with digital media in school
  • Teaching and learning with digital media in the university
  • Knowledge transfer in museums and exhibitions
  • Knowledge work with digital media
  • Knowledge related internet usage

The IWM initiated Germany's first Leibniz ScienceCampus in Tübingen together with the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen in 2009 with the aim of creating a strategically oriented network to further develop empirical educational research in Tübingen. From 2009-2016 dealt with the topic "Education in Information Environments", since 2017 with a closer focus on the topic "Cognitive Interfaces".

Furthermore, the IWM maintains an intensive exchange with research institutions at home and abroad and is involved in the following research associations: the Leibniz research associations Educational Potential, Historical Authenticity, Science 2.0 and Nano Security, the DFG research group Analysis and Promotion of Effective Teaching-Learning Processes and the Graduate School of Excellence Learning, Educational Achievement, and Life Course Development (LEAD) and the Machine Learning Excellence Cluster.

The institute promotes the further development of all employees, the compatibility of family and work and is obliged to implement the research-oriented equality standards of the German Research Foundation (DFG). The IWM enables the compatibility of family and work. It has had the berufundfamilie audit certificate since 2012.

Scientific quality

The institute is embedded in a dynamic research environment. In its scientific performance, the IWM is based on international standards and contributes significantly to further developing them. As an institution of the Leibniz Association, the IWM is subject to specific quality management. The Senate of the Leibniz Association reviews the performance of each of the 91 Leibniz Institutes at least every seven years. For a comprehensive evaluation process, he uses an international and independent evaluation group, which checks the performance of the institute to be evaluated on site. The IWM underwent this evaluation in 2013 and was rated as “very good” to “excellent”.

Promotion of young talent

A central concern of the IWM is the promotion of young scientists. Since 2009, the IWM has been offering a structured doctoral program with a comprehensive training and further education program in order to enable doctoral candidates to be optimally supervised and involved in everyday research. This means that the doctoral students are members of a working group at the institute, publish their work results in specialist journals and present their research at national and international conferences. There is also a weekly doctoral colloquium and regular methodology seminars. Participation in the doctoral program is certified for the participants.

In addition, the IWM takes on a pioneering role in promoting postdocs. A postdoc network has existed at the IWM since 2016, with the aim of enabling the people involved to develop an independent research profile and to support them in acquiring the associated third-party funding. For this purpose, the network has financial means at its disposal, which are used to prepare third-party funding applications, research stays abroad, the organization of workshops, mentoring and training, conference visits and the promotion of work-life balance.

organization

• Executive director of the institute: Ulrike Cress
• Chairman of the Board of Trustees: Ministerialrat Peter Castellaz
• Chairwoman of the Scientific Advisory Board: Birgit Spinath

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c The IWM at a glance (IWM website). Retrieved July 1, 2019 .
  2. ^ Statement of the Science Council on the German Institute for Distance Learning Research (DIFF) at the University of Tübingen. 1998, accessed July 1, 2019 .
  3. State Parliament of Baden-Württemberg (1998) printed matter 12/3067
  4. Statement on the structural concept of the Institute for Knowledge Media (IWM). Science Council (2000) Berlin. Retrieved July 1, 2019 .
  5. https://uni-tuebingen.de/de/91502
  6. e-teaching.org
  7. TüDiLab
  8. wissensdialoge.de | Home page. Retrieved on May 12, 2019 (German).
  9. ^ Leibniz ScienceCampus Tübingen
  10. IWM doctoral program
  11. IWM postdoc network
  12. https://www.iwm-tuebingen.de/www/haben/ma.html?uid=ucress

literature

  • Leibniz Institute for Knowledge Media. Activity reports . Tübingen
  • Science Council: Statement on the structural concept of the Institute for Knowledge Media (IWM). Berlin 2000. (Wissenschaftsrat.de)
  • S. Schwan, U. Cress (Ed.): The psychology of digital learning: Constructing, exchanging, and acquiring knowledge with digital media. Springer International Publishing, Cham 2017, ISBN 978-3-319-84080-2 .