| Time Period | Position |
|---|---|
| Since March 2026 | Senate member at RPTU, Academic Staff Status Group |
| Since 02/2026 | Board Member of the Association for the Promotion of Computer Science e. V. |
| April 2025 – September 2025 | Tutor at RPTU for the course “Algorithms and Data Structures” |
| Oct. 2022 – Mar. 2023 | Tutor at RPTU for the course “Fundamentals of Programming” |
| 10/2020 – 03/2021 | Tutor at RPTU for the course “Fundamentals of Programming” |
| Funding Period | Project | Project Name |
|---|---|---|
| November 2025 – March 2027 | FLINK (STiL) | FLINK: Feedback-Based Learning Support in Computer Science Studies |
2026
- Ballat, M. (2026). Interactive Learning of Recursion: A Tool-Based Approach of Schools. In The 20th WiPSCE Conference on Primary and Secondary Computing Education Research (WiPSCE 2026), Aachen. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1145/3801749.3801785.
2026
- Ballat, M.; Schiebelbein, E.; Bieniusa, A. & van Waveren, L. (2026) AI-Supported Feedback Generation in Programming Education: Learning-Effective Feedback to Address Heterogeneity in Prior Knowledge. Conference on Learning Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Mining in Higher Education (LearningAID), September 1–2, 2026, Bochum.
2026
- Ballat, M. (2026). Interactive Learning of Recursion: A Tool-Based Approach of Schools. Poster at The 20th WiPSCE Conference on Primary and Secondary Computing Education Research (WiPSCE 2026), 11-13.03.2026, Aachen.
- Ballat, M.; Schiebelbein, E.; Bolender, M.; Bieniusa, A. & van Waveren, L. (2026). AI-supported feedback generation in programming teaching: Learning-effective feedback to address heterogeneity in prior knowledge. Poster at the Teaching-Learning Conference, 12.03.2026, Kaiserslautern.
Workshop Offerings for Teachers
- March 9, 2026, Fobizz for Advanced Users. AI Study Day at BBS Pirmasens.
- May 4, 2026, Fobizz for Advanced Learners. AI Study Day at Rittersberggymnasium in Kaiserslautern.
Various workshop offerings for students:
- July 6, 2026, Introduction to the World of Ozobots: Programming with Color Codes (3rd–6th grade), workshop as part of the Wipotec Foundation’s student summer program, at RPTU Kaiserslautern.
- July 8, 2026, Introduction to Block Programming with Ozobots (Grades 5–8), workshop as part of the Wipotec Foundation’s student summer program, at RPTU Kaiserslautern.