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Laura Köbis

Research Fellow

Allgemeine Pädagogik
Haus 7
Marschnerstraße 29 a, Room 233
04109 Leipzig

Phone: +49 341 97 - 31392
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Abstract

Researcher in the BMBF joint research project ‘tech4compKI - Personalised competence development and hybrid AI mentoring’ at the Chair of General Education, Leipzig University


Teaching experience in the field of German as a foreign language at the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages at the University of Cambridge, UK.


Research and teaching interests:

- Mentoring at universities

- AI in education: chatbots, knowledge graphs, matching tools and tech ethics

- Education systems in international comparison

- German as a foreign and second language

- Didactics and methodology of foreign language learning

Professional career

  • since 12/2018
    Researcher in the tech4comp/tech4compKI project (on mentoring, AI in education and tech ethics), General Education, University of Leipzig
  • 10/2022 - 06/2023
    Certificate training for mindful university lecturers (ZAH), University of Leipzig
  • 09/2023 - 10/2023
    Research stay in Kyoto, Japan, at Kyoto University
  • 09/2019 - 03/2020
    Research stay in Boston, USA, guest student at Harvard University
  • 10/2014 - 12/2018
    German Language Supervisor & German Language Teaching Officer, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
  • 02/2013 - 06/2013
    German language teacher, Universidad de Salamanca
  • 07/2013 - 08/2013
    Assistant in the German as a Foreign Language department, Klett-Verlag
  • 10/2012 - 02/2013
    Research assistant at the Chair of German as a Foreign Language: Didactics and Methodology, University of Leipzig

Education

  • 10/2012 - 09/2014
    Master of Arts German as a Foreign Language (Joint Degree), University of Leipzig & Universidad de Salamanca
  • 10/2009 - 09/2012
    Bachelor of Arts German as a Foreign Language, University of Leipzig

Research on innovative mentoring at universities, AI in Education, chatbots, matching tools, knowledge graphs and tech ethics.


  • tech4comp - technology for competence
    Wollersheim, Heinz-Werner
    Duration: 10/2018 – 03/2022
    Funded by: BMBF Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
    Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Allgemeine Pädagogik
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Teacher of the seminar ‘Educational systems: historical, systematic, and comparative perspectives on research trends and findings’ at the Chair of General Education.


Teaching experience at six universities in Germany and abroad, at interDaF and the Goethe-Institut in the field of German as a foreign and second language (A1-C2).

  • Educational systems: historical, systematic, and comparative perspectives on research trends and findings