New Pub: Social Presence and Psychological Distance

Social presence –the sense that others are ‘real’ and ‘there’– is a key variable in understanding interpersonal dynamics in online learning environments. As students are separated in time and place, social cues are diminished and communication is affected. This is particularly relevant for social learning scenarios like computer-supported collaborative learning. Despite its relevance and decades …

New publication: A simple scale for measuring Student Feedback Literacy

This blog post, co-written by Svenja Woitt and Joshua Weidlich, is about our feedback literacy scale development work, published in Teaching in Higher Education. Background To ensure quality higher education, students should routinely receive feedback on their academic endeavors. Alongside the question of what makes feedback effective, there is also an emerging research literature about …

What is Instructional Resilience?

A short summary from our new publication in ETHE Resilience is a psychological construct that refers to the ability to cope with challenging circumstances. Persons demonstrates resilience if they are able to positively adapt and develop during times that are considered psychologically averse, for example personal setbacks, social crises, and stress. Importantly, resilience is not …