Prof. Ulrike Cress

• 1993
  Diplom degree in Psychology, University of Tübingen, Germany
  
  

• 2000
  Doctorate, University of Tübingen
  
  

• 2006
  Habilitation (postdoctoral qualification), University of Tübingen
  
  

• 2007
  Offer of a W3 professorship in education with a research focus on empirical educational research, at the FernUniversität (distance learning university) in Hagen, Germany (declined).
  
  

• 2008
  Offer of a W3 professorship in the psychology of modern media and methodology at the TU Berlin, Germany (declined).
  
  

• 2008
  Offer of a W3 professorship in educational psychology at the Helmut Schmidt University – University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg (declined).
  
  

• Since 2008
  W3 professor of empirical educational research at the University of Tübingen and head of lab the Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien (Knowledge Media Research Center)
  
  

• 2014
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  2016
  Deputy director of the Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien (Knowledge Media Research Center), Tübingen
  
  

• Since 2017
  Executive director of the Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien (Knowledge Media Research Center), Tübingen
  
  

• Jirschitzka, J., Kimmerle, J., Halatchliyski, I., Hancke, J., Meurers, D., & Cress, U. (2017). A productive clash of perspectives? The interplay between articles’ and authors’ perspectives and their impact on Wikipedia edits in a controversial domain. PLOS ONE, 12: e0178985. https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0178985 Open Access

• Jirschitzka, J., Oeberst, A., Göllner, R., & Cress, U. (2017). Inter-rater reliability and validity of peer reviews in an interdisciplinary field. Scientometrics, 113, 1059-1092. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11192-017-2516-6

• Schwan, S., & Cress, U. (Eds.). (2017). The psychology of digital learning: Constructing, exchanging, and acquiring knowledge with digital media. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. 

• Cress, U., & Moskaliuk, J., & Jeong, H. (Eds.). (2016). Mass collaboration and education. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing.

• Halatchliyski, I., Moskaliuk, J., Kimmerle, J., & Cress, U. (2014). Explaining authors' contribution to pivotal artifacts during mass collaboration in the Wikipedia's knowledge base. International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning., 9, 97-115.

• Oeberst, A, Halatchliyski, I., Kimmerle, J., & Cress, U. (2014). Knowledge construction in Wikipedia: A systemic-constructivist analysis. Journal of the Learning Sciences, 23, 149-176.

• Schweiger, S., Oeberst, A., & Cress, U. (2014). Confirmation bias in web-based search: A randomized online study on the effects of expert information and social tags on information search and evaluation. Journal of Medial Internet Research, 16(3), e94.

• Fischer, U., Moeller, K., Cress, U., & Nuerk, H.-C. (2013). Interventions supporting children's mathematics school success: A meta-analytic review. European Psychologist, 18, 89-113.

• Kimmerle, J., Thiel, A., Gerbing, K.-K., Bientzle, M., Halatchliyski, I., & Cress, U. (2013). Knowledge construction in an outsider community: Extending the communities of practice concept. Computers in Human Behavior, 29, 1078-1090.

• Held, C., Kimmerle, J., & Cress, U. (2012). Learning by foraging: The impact of individual knowledge and social tags on web navigation processes. Computers in Human Behavior, 28, 34-40.

• Cress, U. (2008). The need for considering multi-level analysis in CSCL research. An appeal for the use of more advanced statistical methods. International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 3(1), 69-84.

• The influence of opposing concepts of health on information processing and on doctor-patient communication (http://www.iwm-kmrc.de/www/de/projekte/projekt.html?name=Gesundheitskonzepte_Infoverarbeitung_Arzt_Patient&dispname=Gesundheitskonzepte_Infoverarbeitung_Arzt_Patient)

• e-teaching.org (http://www.iwm-kmrc.de/www/de/projekte/projekt.html?name=E-Teaching&dispname=E-Teaching)

• The collaborative construction of knowledge on Wikipedia (http://www.iwm-kmrc.de/www/de/projekte/projekt.html?name=SozialeNetzwerkanalyse&dispname=SozialeNetzwerkanalyse)

• MIRROR – Reflective Learning at Work

• The use of collective knowledge by means of Social Tagging (http://www.iwm-kmrc.de/www/de/projekte/projekt.html?name=SocialTagging&dispname=SocialTagging)

• German Research Foundation (DFG) project: Reception and production of scientific information on Wikipedia: The influence of hindsight bias and social categorisation (http://www.iwm-kmrc.de/www/de/projekte/projekt.html?name=RueckschaufehlerSozialeKategorisierungen&dispname=RueckschaufehlerSozialeKategorisierungen)

• DFG project: Embodied learning of numerosities – Math with the mat (http://www.iwm-kmrc.de/www/de/projekte/projekt.html?name=VerkoerperlichtesLernenNumerositaet&dispname=VerkoerperlichtesLernenNumerositaet)

• German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) project: Comprehension of the fragility of medical findings in participatory media formats (http://www.iwm-kmrc.de/www/de/projekte/projekt.html?name=Fragilitaet_medizinische_%20Befunde_partizipativen_Medienformaten&dispname=Fragilitaet_medizinische_%20Befunde_partizipativen_Medienformaten)

• Knowledge exchange using shared databases

• Member of the programme advisory committee to the Virtual University of Bavaria (VHB)

• Academic reviewer for the German Federal Institute of Sport Science

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