Publications

On this page, you will find an overview of our scientific publications, which reflect our ongoing research and development in university didactics, as well as selected video clips for illustration purposes.

For better orientation, the articles are sorted by topic and the most important publications are highlighted (“selected publications”).

Interactive Teaching & Learning

Articles on our teaching methods, including Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT), Peer Instruction (PI), whiteboards, Tutorials for physics and engineering subjects (McDermott), teaching materials to promote conceptual understanding, and the HyFlex format.

Selected publications

2025-05: PRO-Aktjv film on innovative teaching in the SCALE-UP room with JiTT, PI on YouTube*
_{Overview film (5 min) about our teaching methods, created on the occasion of the award ceremony for the PRO-Aktjv team - Award for Sustainable Development of University Teaching 2025 by the University Teachers' Association hlb on May 16, 2025, in Berlin.}
2023-08: JiTT mit PI: agil, aktivierend, lernendenzentriert, wirksam
Conference proceedings of Inverted Classroom and beyond ICM 2023, Chur, February 2023
_{Overview of Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT), impact assessment, differences from the inverted classroom, and why it is sometimes effective and sometimes not.}
2022-07: Vorher lesen statt vorgelesen
in Physik Journal 21 (2022) Nr. 7.
_{The Just-in-Time Teaching concept motivates students to engage intensively with course content on their own. Overview of JiTT in physics and other STEM subjects.}
2017-06: Aktivierung in heterogenen Gruppen: Was MINT-Lehre bewirken kann. 2nd Part: Die Heterogenität der Studienanfänger in den Ingenieurstudiengängen: Messungen mit dem "Force Concept Invntory"; DiNa 06/2017.
Didactic news from the Didactic Center; www.diz-bayern.de/publikationen/dina-und-tagungsbaende
_{Correlation between university entrance qualifications, scope of physics lessons in secondary school, and first-year students' prior knowledge of mechanics.}
2017-06: TV report (6 min.) on ARD-Alpha on June 8, 2017 (JiTT, PI, THRO)

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Further publications on this topic

2025-05: HyFlex – aktivierend asynchron im Vergleich mit Präsenz*
Lightning Talk at the University Future Festival.
2024-05: Comparison of Synchronous and Asynchronous Teaching Units in a HyFlex Physics Course
PTEE 2024 Conference in Rosenheim | Abstracts p. 26
2022-08: Physikpraktikum: Präsenz - Online - Lab@home - Hybrid
C. Schäfle summarized the pandemic booster of the Rosenheim physics practicum: Enhanced learning experience and flexibility for students.
2022-05: Elemente gelungener (Online-)Lehrveranstaltungen mit großer Wirkung in der Praxis
R. Kellner explains his teaching concept at the 2022 Teaching Forum.
2021-02: JiTT“ und „PI“: wirksame Lehrmethoden – nicht nur in der Live-Online Lehre (Guest post on the blog of www.hochschuldiaktik-online.de).
2020-06: Physikpraktikum in Zeiten von Corona
Lab@home, Lab@PC, Lab@TH
2020-03: Mich faule Haut zum Studieren bringen!
Poster on the transfer market at the 49th dghd Annual Meeting in Berlin, March 2020. www.dghd2020.de
Audio for dghd poster: Mich faule Haut zum Studieren bringen!
Audio explanations for the poster file
2019-07: Transforming Traditonal Lecturing in Physics to Interactive Teaching
Talk at AAPT-Conference in Provo UT / USA
www.aapt.org/Conferences/SM2019/index.cfm
2019-07: Astronomy the Trojan Horse to Teach Physics Invisibly
Poster PERC-Conference Provo UT / USA July 2019: www.compadre.org/per/conferences/2019/
2019-01: PRO-Aktjv im TH-RO-Forschungsbericht 2018, S.62ff
2018-08: Alles total digital im Hörsaal? (Interview mit Studentin)
Interview on www.abi.de with EGT student Theresa Liegl, TH Rosenheim, on just-in-time teaching: “She has buried the hatchet with physics.”
2018-03: PRO-Aktjv im HRK-nexus Fachgutachten: "Modellansätze ausgewählter HS zur Neugestaltung der Studieneingangsphase", S45ff.
2017-08: Interview by e-teaching.org (JiTT, Ars legendi)
2017-04: Lehre aktuell - SS 2017 (JiTT, PI, Ars legendi)
2016-12: JiTT und PI im stürmischen Physikalltag. DiNa-Sonderausgabe 12/2016
www.diz-bayern.de/publikationen/dina-und-tagungsbaende
2016-02: Gut kombiniert - Gut vorbereitet!
Article in the proceedings of the 5th Conference “Inverted Classroom and Beyond” at the St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, February 23-24, 2016 (www.fhstp.ac.at/de)
Poster at the 5th “Inverted Classroom and Beyond” conference at St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, February 23-24, 2016

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Innovative Learning Spaces

We teach in three SCALE-UP rooms that are specially designed for collaborative work—one of which is equipped specifically for hybrid group work. All publications about our innovative teaching rooms can be found below.

Selected publications

2024-09: Das Labor für Hybride Gruppenarbeit – ein zukunftsweisender Lehr-Experimentierraum für innovative und aktivierende hybride Lehre*
_{Video (7 min) created on the occasion of Digital Teaching Day 2024 at OTH Regensburg, examples of good practice, HigHRoQ.}
2024-08: Dem gemeinsamen Lernen Raum geben – das SCALE-UP Raum- und Lehrkonzept
Didaktik-Nachrichten DiNa 08/2024 by BayZieL; 2nd Article.
_{Overview article on SCALE-UP classrooms in general, the Rosenheim SCALE-UP classrooms in particular, and teaching studies of student learning in SCALE-UP classrooms using the ICAP model.}
2023-04: Das SCALE-UP Raum- und Lehrkonzept*
_{Lightning Talk (5 min) at the University Future Festival.}

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Further publications on this topic

2024-08: Das SCALE-UP Raum- und Lehrkonzept – Einblicke in die Erfahrungen von Lehrenden
Didaktik-Nachrichten DiNa 08/2024 by BayZieL
2023-09: Dem gemeinsamen Lernen Raum geben – das SCALE-UP Raum- und Lehrkonzept | S.29
5th STEM Symposium in Nuremberg
2023-04: Studierende der TH Rosenheim erarbeiten digital ihr naturwissenschaftliches Wissen
vdi news April 14, 2023, available online for VDI members
2021-03: Lehre aktuell - SS2021 (SCALE-UP)

Learning Process Support & Learning Analytics

In addition to information about our physics online bridging course, learning videos, and SMART vhb courses, this section also contains articles on learning analytics, including peer coaching.

Selected publications

2025-09 Predictive Learning Analytics generiert Lernfeedback: KI-Design, Herausforderungen, erste Ergebnisse
Tagungsband des 6.MINT-Symposiums 2025, TH Nuernberg, p.272ff.
_{Use of learning analytics to provide students with personalized feedback and predictions about their potential exam success, promote learning progress, and reduce dropout rates.}
2023-10: Making Effective Videos and Live Online Lectures Quickly with a Live Composite Format International Journal of Innovation in Science and Mathematics Education
_{Article on the production of effective and efficient instructional videos based on multimedia principles of learning through direct integration of the speaker into the presentation, no further post-production necessary.}
2022-11: Making effective videos for (live) online learning quickly*
Proceedings | Contribution to the "IUPAP International Conference on Physics Education (ICPE) 2022"
_{related conference presentation (10 min)}
2021-08: POWER Kurs (Physik-Online-Warmup nicht nur für Erstsemester)
_{Physics bridging course based on the minimum requirements catalog for physics at the Virtual University of Bavaria at OPEN-vhb. Continuously updated. Simply register and get started.}

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Further publications on this topic

2025-12: Förderung fachlicher und persönlicher Weiterentwicklung hoch³
Poster at ICM 2025: Inverted Classroom and beyond, Hochschule Osnabrück
2024-05: Predictive Learning Analytics Generating Learning Feedback: AI Design, Challenges, First Findings
PTEE 2024 Conference in Rosenheim | Abstracts p. 23
2023-09: Einsatz von Learning Analytics zur Entwicklung eines Feedbacktools für höheren Studienerfolg | p. 9
Abstract for presentation 5th STEM Symposium in Nuremberg
2023-09: Physics Education Research-orientierte digitale Lehrmaterialien | p.31
2023-09: Effiziente und Effektive Erklärvideos und Live Online-Lehre | p. 3
5th STEM Symposium in Nuremberg
2023-03: Physics Education Research-orientierte digitale Lehrmaterialien für Studienanfänger
DPG Spring Conference SAMOP23 in Hannover. Abstract
2022-05: SMART vhb Mini-courses at the Virtual University of Bavaria vhb
SMART vhb Mini-courses : "Kräfte und Freischneiden"
SMART vhb Mini-courses : "Arbeit und Energie bilanzieren" → part 1 | → part 2
2022-05: Elemente gelungener (Online-)Lehrveranstaltungen mit großer Wirkung in der Praxis in Forum der Lehre 2022

Discipline-Based Educational Research

Below you will find articles from our research in teaching methodology, focusing on student thinking, concept tests (FCI), the ICAP model, and the approaches of SoTL (Scholarship of Teaching and Learning) and PER (Physics Education Research).

Selected publications

2024-01: Physik gemeinsam konstruieren
Physik Journal, 01/2024, p. 33 (Article only readable by DPG members. Freely accessible from 02/2027)
_{The research-based worksheets “Tutorials” enable students to overcome typical comprehension difficulties. Overview of the use of “Tutorials” in teaching physics and engineering subjects.}
2023-03: Analyse studentischer Fehlvorstellungen mittels des Force Concept Inventory
DPG Spring Conference SAMOP23 in Hannover. Abstract. Conference Proceedings PhyDid B, p. 51-57.
_{By analyzing item response curves, relevant distractors in the answer options can be identified that reflect the most common misconceptions among students.}
2021-06: Student reasoning in hydrodynamics: Bernoulli's principle versus continuity equation
Physical Review Physics Education Research 17, 010147 (2021).
journals.aps.org/prper/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.17.010147.
_{Investigation of students' ideas about fundamental concepts of fluid mechanics.}
2021-04: Der Hörsaal als Labor: Aktivierende Lehre auf dem Prüfstand
Special edition from "Die neue Hochschule, booklet 2021-2". www.hlb.de/die-neue-hochschule
_{Overview article on the development and results of the teaching concept and its impact.}
2019-09: Einfluss aktivierender Lehrmethoden auf die Prüfungsperformance in Physik
Proceedings of the 4th MINT Symposium, Nuremberg, September 2019.
www.didaktikzentrum.de/publikationen/dina-und-tagungsbaende
_{Quantitative study - overall, more students successfully pass the physics exam when active teaching methods are used.}
2017-06: Aktivierung in heterogenen Gruppen: Was MINT-Lehre bewirken kann. DiNa 06/2017
3rd Part: Lernzuwachs in Mechanik DiNa 06/2017 | BayZiel
_{Correlation between teaching methods, university entrance qualifications, and prior knowledge on the one hand, and learning gains among first-year students in mechanics on the other.}

Further publications on this topic

2024-05 PTEE 2024 Conference
PTEE 2024 Program and Abstracts
PTEE 2024 Proceedings
2024-05: Classroom Observation in SCALE-UP Settings – First Results
PTEE 2024 Conference in Rosenheim | Abstracts p. 31
2024-05: Analysis of Student Conceptual Development Using the Force Concept Inventory
PTEE 2024 Conference in Rosenheim | Abstracts p. 48
2024-03: Dem gemeinsamen Lernen Raum geben - das SCALE-UP Raum- und Lehrkonzept
DPG Spring Conference SAMOP24 in Greifswald
2024-03: Physik lernen in hybrider Gruppenarbeit - ein innovativer Lehrraum als didaktisches Labor
DPG Spring Conference SAMOP24 in Greifswald
2023-09: Entwicklungsstufen studentischer Fehlvorstellungen in der Mechanik: Vergleich deutscher und US- amerikanischer Erhebungen mittels des Force Concept Inventory | p. 21
5th STEM Symposium in Nuremberg
2022-05: Towards a thermal conceptual assessment for first-year engineering students: TCA-1Y
PTEE Proceedings Tampere p. 34, May 2022.
More about PTEE: www.sefiphysics.be
2020-03: Einfluss aktivierender Lehrmethoden auf das Prüfungsverhalten im Fach Physik
Poster on the transfer market at the 49th dghd Annual Meeting in Berlin, March 2020. www.dghd2020.de
Audio for dghd poster: Einfluss aktivierender Lehrmethoden auf das Prüfungsverhalten im Fach Physik
Audio explanations for the poster file
2019-05: Impact of Interactive Teaching Methods on Heterogeneity
PTEE Proceedings Delft May 2019. www.sefiphysics.be
2019-05: Students' Reasoning in Fluid Dynamics: Bernoulli's Principle vs. the Continuity Equation
PTEE Proceedings Delft May 2019. www.sefiphysics.be
2018-07: Student Reasoning in Fluid Dynamics
Poster at PERC-Conference in Washington DC / USA
2018-07: Impact of Teaching Methods on Heterogeneity
Poster at AAPT-Conference in Washington DC / USA
2017-06: Aktivierung in heterogenen Gruppen: Was MINT-Lehre bewirken kann. DiNa 06/2017
2nd Part: Die Heterogenität der Studienanfänger in den Ingenieurstudiengängen
www.diz-bayern.de/publikationen/dina-und-tagungsbaende
_{Correlation between university entrance qualifications, scope of physics lessons in secondary school, and first-year students' prior knowledge of mechanics.}
2016-12: JiTT und PI im stürmischen Physikalltag. DiNa Special Edition 12/2016
www.diz-bayern.de/publikationen/dina-und-tagungsbaende

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