Staff Positions
The University of Saarland (Germany) invites applications for two two-year postdoc/Research Scientist positions (TVL13) in the Group 'Intelligent Learning Technology' at the Computer Science Department and the CelTech. Alternatively, very good and motivated PhD students can apply as well. The two will work/research in the following projects.
- A DFG-funded project focuses on adapting feedback in interactive exercises (in the ActiveMath system) to the user's, context, and task variables. This work is performed in collaboration with pedagogical psychologists.
- The second project develops an instance of the multi-lingual Activemath platform for remedial purposes. Several European partners work on this EU project and also several researchers in Saarbrücken.
- A third project is a joint project with Carnegie Mellon University and UC that investigates adaptation services for erroneous examples.
Masters or Ph.D. degree in computer science or a related field is required. The candidate should be proficient in programming languages such as Java and PHP and should have some working knowledge of database systems. XML, XSL,CSS skills are a plus, prior experience and future goals of publishing research as well. Candidates with an interest in ITS, educational data mining, student modeling, adaptive web systems, personalised eLearning, and/or (semantic) web technology should apply! Applicants should enjoy teamwork and have a taste for interdisciplinary work.
Please send a cover letter and CV to melis@dfki.de
and siekmann@dfki.de. Application review will begin August 19, 2010 and will continue until the positions are filled. The University of Saarland is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages applications from women. For any questions regarding this position, please contact
melis@dfki.de
Job Openings of the ActiveMath Group at the University of Saarland (UdS) and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) in Saarbrücken, Germany
ActiveMath is a web-based intelligent learning environment for mathematics. It is being developed at the DFKI and at the University of Saarland. See the group's home page http://www.activemath.org. Both, the CS Department of UdS and DFKI are well-known for their execellent research environment.The Intelligent Educational Technologies Group (or ActiveMath Group) in the Department of Computer Science od UdS and at DFKI is seeking to recruit motivated candidates for a number of positions in the area of Personalised Technology-Enhanced Learning/Adaptive Learning Platform.The positions include- developer/software engineer
- researcher for student modeling (motivational and meta-cognitive)
- researcher for collaborative authoring
The expected salary range is between 33,000 and 45,000 euro.
The anticipated starting date in April 2009 for a duration of 33 months with the possibility of an extension.Please submit your applications to
PD.Dr. Erica Melis
melis at dfki dot de
HIWI Positions
Assembly of Learning Items
Supervisor: Martin HomikActiveMath provides a means for authors to assembly books based on learning items stored in ActiveMath's repository. Another way to create a course is to ask the course generator to build a tailored book according to the learner's goals and current knowledge. However, both ways do not provide the facility for students to create their own books and to work with content and its structure actively. This task is solved by ActiveMath's assembly tool. Actually this tool has much more potential than the mere assembly of ActiveMath's learning items. The task for this position is as follows:- enhance the assembly tool;
- provide sharing of books;
- integrate external objects;
- provide a means for collaboration, and
- distinguish between an assembly tool for students and one for teachers.