Dr. Jan Delcker
Postdoctoral Researcher at the Chair of Economic and Business Education, Learning, Design and Technology
Credit: Jan Delcker
Main fields of research
- Teaching and learning with digital technologies
- Digitalization in school development
- School development models
- Educational Data Literacy
Curriculum vitae
| 2022 | Dr. rer. pol. (PhD), Phd thesis “Transforming Vocational Schools – Digitalization in School Development“ |
| Since 2015 | University of Mannheim, Research Assistant at the Chair for Economic and Business Education – Learning, Design & Technology |
| 2012–2015 | Hochschule Mannheim, M.A. Social Work, Master thesis “Pfandsammler“ |
| 2008–2012 | Hochschule Mannheim, B.A. Social Work, Bachelor thesis “Computerspiele als Anlass zur medienpädagogischen Arbeit in Familien“ |
Selected publications
- Delcker, J., Heil, J. and Ifenthaler, D. (2025). Evidence-based development of an instrument for the assessment of teachers’ self-perceptions of their artificial intelligence competence. Educational Technology Research and Development : ET R & D, 73, 115–133.
- Spirgi, L., Seufert, S., Delcker, J., Heil, J. and Ifenthaler, D. (2025). Soziotechnische Systemgestaltung im Kontext generativer KI: Eine empirische Untersuchung. In Künstliche Intelligenz in der forschungsgeleiteten Hochschullehre. Sonderheft KI-1 (S. 89–108). Wien: Österreichische Gesellschaft für Hochschuldidaktik.
- Delcker, J., Heil, J., Ifenthaler, D., Seufert, S. and Spirgi, L. (2024). First-year students AI-competence as a predictor for intended and de facto use of AI-tools for supporting learning processes in higher education. International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education, 21, 1–13.
- Delcker, J., Heil, J., Ifenthaler, D., Seufert, S. and Spirgi, L. (2024). First-year students' usage of and attitudes towards mindless and mindful AI-technology. In Artificial intelligence for supporting human cognition and exploratory learning in the digital age (S. 25–40). Cham, Switzerland: Springer.
- Heil, J., Delcker, J., Ifenthaler, D., Seufert, S. and Spirgi, L. (2024). KI-Kompetenz zu Studienbeginn als Prädiktor für die Nutzung von KI-Werkzeugen zur Unterstützung von Lernprozessen. Informatik-Spektrum, 47, 51–59.
- Seufert, S., Spirgi, L., Delcker, J., Heil, J. and Ifenthaler, D. (2024). Umgang mit KI-Robotern: maschinelle Übersetzer, Textgeneratoren, Chatbots & Co – Eine empirische Studie bei Erstsemester-Studierenden. Empirische Pädagogik : EP, 38, 47–72.
- Delcker, J. (2023). Digitalisation in the curricula of vocational schools: text mining as an instrument of curricula analysis. Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 28, 999-1014.
- Konakli, T., Dağ, F., Durdu, L., Öncü, E. ., Demi̇rtaş, D., Anda, E., Daniela, L., Rudolfa, A., Tumase, K., Delcker, J., O'Reilly, M., Figueiredo, M., Alves, V., Sousa, A. C., Amante, S., Operta, F. and Gilardi, L. (2023). Lesson plans from the Higher Education Course Curriculum for a distance learning model reinforced with robotics for 3 to 7 years old children. Viseu, Portugal: Escola Superior de Educação de Viseu.