Daniel Ebbert

PhD candidate at the University of South Australia

University of South Australia

Biography

Daniel is a PhD candidate at the University of South Australia. After having worked in the field of providing educational technology to lecturers at universities in Germany, he joined the University of South Australia to start his PhD. His research focuses on improving educational videos provided to students at higher education institutions, with a specific emphasis on exploring mind wandering and self-regulated learning. By delving into these aspects, Daniel aims to develop insights and techniques that can enhance the effectiveness and engagement of educational materials in a university setting.

Interests

Self-regulated learning
Mind wandering
Learning Analytics
Video usage in higher education
Open Science

Education

PhD in Education, Started in 2022
University of South Australia
Master of Science in Technical Communication, 2017
University of Twente
Bachelor of Communication in Information Services and Management, 2015
Saxion University of Applied Sciences

Experience

Tutor

University of South Australia

March 2024 – Present Adelaide, Australia

Tutor for the course “Developing Academic Skills”. Tasks included delivery of the tutorials and assisting the students with developing learning strategies.

Tutor

University of South Australia

February 2023 – November 2023 Adelaide, Australia

Tutor for the course “University Studies”. Tasks included delivery of the tutorials, assisting the students with developing a research question, finding relevant sources and writing an essay to address their chosen research question.

Research Assistant

University of South Australia

January 2023 – October 2023 Adelaide, Australia

Assist in extracting data from published papers on the complexity of research questions in learning analytics.

Course Quality Assessor

University of South Australia

October 2022 – April 2023 Adelaide, Australia

Assessing the quality of online courses and provide constructive feedback to course coordinators, helping them optimise the learning experience for their students.

Research Associate

University of Cologne

January 2021 – June 2022 Cologne, Germany

Planning and setting up the lecture capture, video management and delivery service (educast.nrw) for all higher education institutions in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. This includes requirement analysis, coordinating external contracts with internal software development as well as advising and supporting the participating higher education institutions.

Research Associate & System Administrator

ELAN e.V.

April 2020 – December 2020 Osnabrück, Germany

Installing and maintaining the lecture capture and video management software Opencast for clients in the higher education sector.

Research Associate

University of Münster

December 2017 – March 2020 Münster, Germany

Managing the universities lecture recording system (Opencast), including coordinating the equipment of lecture halls with recording technology and advising the teaching staff on how to use the lecture capture system.

Research Assistant

University of Münster

December 2015 – November 2017 Münster, Germany

Planning and setting up a lecture capture system (Opencast) for the whole university, including market research on available software solutions, lecture hall equipment and integration in the learning platform (Moodle).

Research Intern

Vilnius University

February 2015 – June 2015 Vilnius, Lithuania

Researching the information search behavior of foreign tourists in Vilnius. This was a cooperation between the Media Research Lab at Vilnius University and Saxion University of Applied Sciences to enable the writing of the bachelor thesis as part of an internship.