Teaching and Educational Technology
Short portrait
Research on teaching deals with theories and models for effective teaching. It offers teachers a scientifically based knowledge of action and reflection for planning, carrying out, evaluating and improving their lessons. With its interdisciplinary approach, it contributes to understanding across subject boundaries. It has many disciplinary references, from educational theory to empirical teaching and learning research. It cooperates with the fields of subject specific methodologies and teaching methods for school subjects in order to develop teaching holistically.
Educational Technology develops guidelines for the deliberate use of tools in teaching and learning contexts. This includes the development and selection of technology for teaching and learning, the planning of technology-supported teaching units as well as their implementation and empirical testing. A special focus is on digital teaching and learning technologies. Ideally, the use of such technology should make teaching more vivid, activating, motivating and ultimately more effective. Furthermore, learners should be enabled to use these technologies in a self-determined, competent and responsible manner.
Research topics
In particular, our research focuses on the following topics:
Teaching methods and teachers’ beliefs;
Personalized teaching and learning methods;
Integration of educational technology in schools;
Information literacy and media literacy education;
Technology in teacher education: mobile note taking and reflective writing;
Serious games and gamified learning.
Aktuelle Publikationen / Recent Publications
- Candido, V., Lam, F., Petko, D., & Cattaneo, A. (2026). No News Is Good News Testing Modality and Redundancy in Immersive Augmented Reality. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 42(1), e70185. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcal.70185
- Consoli, T., Petko, D., Gonon, P., & Cattaneo, A. (2026). Herausforderungen bei der Integration generativer Künstlicher Intelligenz in die Berufsbildung. Transfer. Berufsbildung in Forschung und Praxis. https://doi.org/10.64829/15177
- Brianza, E., Schmid, M., Tondeur, J., & Petko, D. (2026). Contextualizing Student Teachers’ TPACK: Understanding the Benefits of Field Experience. Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 1-35. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10758-026-09961-y
- Martínez-Moreno, J., Zhou, X., Petko, D., & Chiu, T. K. (2026). Motivation to shape the future of education with Artificial Intelligence: An international comparison between Switzerland and China. Computers and Education Open, 10, 100327. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.caeo.2025.100327
- Antonietti, C., Consoli, T., Schmitz, M.-L., Cattaneo, A., Gonon, P., & Petko, D. (2025). Digital constructivists, activators or presenters? Different profiles of technology integration among Swiss upper secondary school teachers. Computers & Education, 227, 105225.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2024.105225 - Antonietti, C., Schmitz, M. L., Consoli, T., Cattaneo, A., Gonon, P., & Petko, D. (2025). Examining technology integration in upper secondary schools: A comparative analysis across school programs and subjects. Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 1-26.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10758-025-09889-9 - Candido, V., Cattaneo, A., & Petko, D. (2025). Exploring multimedia principles and learning from errors in augmented reality and video. Learning and Instruction, 101, 102244.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2025.102244 - Cattaneo, A., Schmitz, M.-L., Gonon, P., Antonietti, C., Consoli, T., & Petko, D. (2025). The role of personal and contextual factors when investigating technology integration in general and vocational education. Computers in Human Behavior, 163, 108475.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2024.108475 - Consoli, T., & Petko, D. (2025). Which educational approaches predict students’ generative AI confidence and responsibility?. Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence, 9, 100431.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.caeai.2025.100431 - Désiron, J. C., Wolfensberger, A., Clack, L., & Petko, D. (2025). Do prompts to foster negative knowledge lead to more mistakes? The effects of exploratory behavioural prompts in medical training. Interactive Learning Environments, 1-13.
https://doi.org/10.1080/10494820.2025.2521332 - Désiron, J. C., Schmitz, M. L., & Petko, D. Teachers as creators of digital multimedia learning materials: are they aligned with multimedia learning principles. Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 30(2), 637–653. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10758-024-09770-1
- Michos, K., Schmitz, M. L., & Petko, D. (2025). Learning Analytics in Schools: Is Digital Data Use Influenced by Teacher-Level or School-Level Factors?. Journal of Learning Analytics, 1, 12(3), 87–101. https://doi.org/10.18608/jla.2025.8567
- Petko, D., Mishra, P., & Koehler, M. J. (2025). TPACK in context: An updated model. Computers and Education Open, 100244. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.caeo.2025.100244
- Schmitz, M. L., Antonietti, C., Consoli, T., Gonon, P., Cattaneo, A., & Petko, D. (2025). Enhancing teacher collaboration for technology integration: the impact of transformational leadership. Computers & Education, 234, 105331. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2025.105331
