Applied Education Technologies

The paper On-Premise Kubernetes in Software Engineering Education: An Experience Report has been accepted at the ICSE-SEET track (Software Engineering Education and Training) and will be presented at ICSE’26 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Modern software engineering courses increasingly need Kubernetes experience, but many universities face strict data protection requirements, limited budgets, and constrained IT resources. This paper reports how we designed and operated a multi-node, on-premise Kubernetes setup tailored to these educational constraints using RKE2, Ansible, and Rancher.

Lukas and Ramona have been awarded the Women in CIT Travel Awards. This allows both to attend conferences in the respective fields and fosters exchange within the international STEM community. Lukas will attend the Serious Play Conference Europe in Mainz, discussing insights from his master’s thesis. Ramona will join the Interaction Design and Children (IDC) Conference, a key venue for research on human-computer interaction and computing education. Both look forward to engaging with peers and gaining new impulses for their ongoing research projects.

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The paper Investigating Student Interaction with Competency-Based CS Education led by Maximilian Anzinger and co-authored with Annika Hecking-Veltman, Maxie Bichmann, and Stephan Krusche, has been accepted for the International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge 2026 in Bergen, Norway. It expands the area of research in Competency-Based Education (CBE) to Computer Science in European Higher Education. The study investigates associations between voluntary student interaction with Atlas, a CBE Learning Analytics system integrated in Artemis, and learning outcomes across performance, engagement, and perceptions in a large-scale Computer Science course at TUM.

The paper Scaling Assessment of Student Models with LLMs: Integrating Feedback into Practice has been accepted at the ICSE-SEET track (Software Engineering Education and Training) and will be presented at ICSE’26 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Automated assessment for UML modeling exercises is hard to scale: diagrams are open-ended, graphical, and highly contextual. This paper presents a production-ready extension of Athena, integrated into Artemis, that supports human-in-the-loop assessment by generating feedback suggestions that graders can review, adapt, or discard within their existing workflow.