Kerstin Wagner

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I’m Kerstin Wagner, and I work at Berliner Hochschule für Technik (BHT), a university of applied sciences, in faculty VI “Computer Science and Media.” In the project Students Advice, we are developing a course recommendation system based on student data to reduce the risk of dropping out of university. We involve students in the development to ensure that it meets their needs, for example, through surveys and as part of project work and final theses.

I received my bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Business Informatics from HTW Berlin and worked as a technical consultant in Enterprise Architecture Management at Deutsche Bahn. In 2018, I decided to return to university and began studying Data Science at BHT.

Over the years, I’ve learned that my work needs to be diverse above all and allow me to try out new things - and research is probably the best way to do that.

In my spare time, I like to be outdoors :dog::biking_woman::evergreen_tree:, swim :dolphin:, and coach other swimmers at the sports club :swimmer::swimming_woman:

News

Jun 27, 2024 Our journal article about a course recommender system built on success to support ttudents at-risk in higher education has been published
May 3, 2024 Poster presentation @CSEDU in Angers, France
Apr 23, 2024 Presenting the project at the CSES research group at Humboldt University :calendar:
Apr 22, 2024 Our article “A Course Enrollment System Built on Success to Support Students At-Risk,” has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Educational Data Mining :grin:
Feb 8, 2024 Our paper “About the Perceived Quality of a Course Recommender System”, has been accepted as a Short Paper at CSEDU 2024 (Angers, France) :blush:
Jul 15, 2023 I have to say, the Educational Data Mining Conference 2023 in Bengaluru, India was a wonderful experience!
Jul 5, 2023 Invited to talk at the online session "Using data and predictive models to promote study success in higher education" hosted by OECD Portugal
Jul 5, 2023 Realized, that our paper at EDM23 is nominated for the Best Paper Award :astonished:
Jun 8, 2023 Invited to submit an extended journal manuscript to JEDM :blush:
Apr 10, 2023 Long paper at EDM 2023 (Bengaluru, India) accepted!
Feb 2, 2023 Full paper at CSEDU 2023 (Prague, Czech Republic) accepted!

Selected Publications

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    A Course Recommender System Built on Success to Support at Risk Students in Higher Education
    Kerstin WagnerAgathe MerceronPetra Sauer, and Niels Pinkwart
    Journal of Educational Data Mining (JEDM), 2024
    https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11384083
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    About the Perceived Quality of a Course Recommender System
    Kerstin WagnerAgathe MerceronPetra Sauer, and Niels Pinkwart
    In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computer Supported Education (CSEDU), 2024
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    Can the Paths of Successful Students Help Other Students With Their Course Enrollments?
    Kerstin WagnerAgathe MerceronPetra Sauer, and Niels Pinkwart
    In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Educational Data Mining, Jul 2023
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    Which Approach best Predicts Dropouts in Higher Education?
    Kerstin Wagner, Henrik Volkening, Sunay Basyigit, Agathe Merceron, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Computer Supported Education, Apr 2023
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    Eliciting Students’ Needs and Concerns about a Novel Course Enrollment Support System [Workshop]
    Kerstin Wagner, Isabel Hilliger, Agathe Merceron, and Petra Sauer
    In Companion Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge, Apr 2021