Andreas Bollin

Andreas Bollin studied Telematics at Graz University of Technology and received his PhD in Applied Computer Science/Software Engineering in Klagenfurt, where he also got the venia docendi in the field of computing science in 2012. Since 2002, he has been researching and working on many projects on new media in teaching, didactics of computer science, teaching through simulations, and computational thinking.

He currently heads the Institute for Computer Science Didactics at the Faculty of Technology of the University of Klagenfurt. Since 2015, he has been jointly responsible for teacher training in computer science in Austria. His research interests are software engineering education, serious games, computational thinking, programming strategies, competence and maturity models in teaching, and gender- and personality-optimized teaching. Recently, he is running two ministry-funded projects in cooperation with other Austrian universities, where, based on established competency models, different target groups (children, teachers, students, but also the general public) are able to improve their knowledge of (and interests in) computer science through personalized online courses.