Curriculum Vitae

• Year of birth: 1977
• Degrees:
  M.A., Educational Sciences, LMU Munich
  Dr. rer. nat., Psychology, University of Tübingen
• Important positions:
  April 2002 – March 2005: Member of the Virtual Ph.D. Program „Knowledge Acquisition and Knowledge Exchange with new media“ (sponsored by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) at the University of Tuebingen
  April 2005 – September 2006: Scientific assistant at the Knowledge Media Research Center, Tuebingen
  October 2006 - September 2010: Assistant professor at the Chair of Education and Educational Psychology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich
  since October 2010: Substitute professor (W2) in the M.A. program "Psychology of Excellence in Business and Education"

Teaching

Information from HIS-LSF

Research topics

• Computer-supported Collaborative Learning
• Inquiry learning
• Future Learning Spaces

Current projects

• Embedding small group collaboration scripts into classroom scripts (DFG project; Kickoff: 04/07; Part of the DFG research group "Orchestrating Computer-Supported Processes of Learning and Instruction")
• Future learning spaces - Developing concepts for the use of furniture and digital technologies in school, university and further education settings (in collaboration with Steelcase)
• ELK-MATH: Effects of heuristic worked-out examples and collaboration scripts on the acquisition of individual and discursive components of argumentation competence (DFG project; Kickoff: 01/10)

Selected publications

• Kollar, I., & Fischer, F. (2010). Commentary: Peer assessment as collaborative learning: A cognitive perspective. Learning & Instruction, 20, 344-348.
• Kollar, I., & Fischer, F. (2008). Was ist eigentlich aus der neuen Lernkultur geworden? Ein Blick auf Instruktionsansätze mit Potenzial zur Veränderung kulturell geteilter Lehr- und Lernskripts. Zeitschrift für Pädagogik, 54 (1), 49-62.
• Kollar, I., Fischer, F., & Slotta, J. D. (2007). Internal and external scripts in computer-supported collaborative inquiry learning. Learning & Instruction, 17 (6), 708-721.
• Fischer, F., Mandl, H., Haake, J. M., & Kollar, I. (Eds.)(2007). Scripting computer-supported communication of knowledge – cognitive, computational, and educational perspectives. New York: Springer.
• Kollar, I. (2006). Webbasiertes Forschendes Lernen in der Biologie: Effekte internaler und externaler Kooperationsskripts auf Prozesse und Ergebnisse des gemeinsamen Argumentierens. Berlin: Logos.
• Kollar, I., Fischer, F., & Hesse, F. W. (2006). Collaboration scripts - a conceptual analysis. Educational Psychology Review, 18 (2), 159-185.