Karin Schweizer

Karin Schweizer serves as Rector and Professor specializing in educational innovation, with core research in teaching/learning with new media, media literacy, teacher professional competence, and mental model development.

Her research spans critical educational domains:

• Teacher professionalization through self-efficacy and epistemological belief analysis
• Bilingual education impacts on cognitive abilities and motivation
• Usability engineering for model-driven PLC programming education
• E-Learning methodologies for collaborative knowledge building

Key projects include longitudinal studies on teacher training in geography education, bilingual program evaluations in German secondary schools, and human-computer interaction research in technical education contexts. The Weingarten research group led her PLC software usability study examining cognitive factors in programming paradigms.

Regarding academic supervision and funding, the source material provides no specific student names or grant details despite her leadership in multiple interdisciplinary projects.