Profile

Hi, I’m Dominik.

Under the name PyTales I develop learning games, inclusion-sensitive materials and small AI tools of my own.

Dominik Töpper · Research associate at TU Dresden

Current focus

PyTales

Game-based learning and serious games
Design-based research
Media education and media didactics
Implementation research in education

SensAble

Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
Inclusive teaching and learning
Immersive learning (AR/VR)
XR development
Cross-platform development

Lora

Harness cultivation
AI: knowledge distillation and fine-tuning
NLP engineering

Doctorate

At the Chair of General Didactics and Empirical Research on Teaching (ADEU) at TU Dresden, with “Die verlorene Drachme” as research prototype.

Doctoral thesis (working title, in German)

Designprinzipien für Educational Visual Novels im Geschichtsunterricht

Eine Design-Based-Research-Studie zu Implementierungsbedingungen aus Lehrkräfteperspektive

Design principles for educational visual novels in history teaching. A design-based research study on implementation conditions from the teachers’ perspective

Research question and cycles To “The Lost Drachma”

Teaching and inclusion

Teaching in the module “Designing school and teaching for inclusion” (EW-SEGY-BW4) and projects at the chair under the guiding theme of inclusion – this is where the SensAble applications come from.

To SensAble

Career

since 2023
Doctorate at the ADEU chair, TU Dresden
Design principles for educational visual novels from the teachers’ perspective; design-based research with the prototype “Die verlorene Drachme”. To the research
2022
Recorded History
Learning platform with modules on video games, created as part of the state-examination thesis. To the archive (German)
2017 – 2023
Teacher training for upper secondary schools (state examination)
Subjects: geography and history.

Contact

dominik.toepper@tu-dresden.de

For questions about the projects, the research and classroom use.

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