Member of the e-teaching-Transfer Lab

Kathrin Nieder-Steinheuer has been a research associate at the IWM since 2020. There she is involved in research and transfer activities on the use of digital media in education. Her current work focuses on transfer concepts that support STEM teachers in using innovative digital technologies in a way that is beneficial for learning in different classroom scenarios. Within the framework of the MINT (STEM) Competence Centre, funded by German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Kathrin Nieder-Steinheuer is involved in the preparation of good practice examples, current research findings, and didactic materials for STEM education. Previously, she investigated successful implementations of hybrid learning spaces at universities and designed formats on the information and qualification portal e-teaching.org to transfer those research results into the practice of university teaching.

Kathrin Nieder-Steinheuer studied Communication Studies, German Philology as well as Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Münster (Magister Artium 2007). Her doctoral thesis in Communication Science on "Religiotainment – A Constructivist Grounded Theory of Christian Religion in Fictional Television Format" (2016) resulted from her work in the Excellence Cluster "Religion and Politics in the Cultures of Premodernity and Modernity" – also at the University of Münster. Digital and hybrid learning environments have been the focus of her work since 2017 – first as a researcher at the Stuttgart Media University and subsequently as the development coordinator of a study orientation platform at the University of Tübingen.