Dr. Eric Richter
Head of the “Multiplikator:innen” work area at the learning:digital Competence Network
Campus Griebnitzsee
Marlene-Dietrich-Allee 16
14482 Potsdam
consulting hours
after arrangement
Research interests
- Teachers' professional development
- Digitization and Virtual Reality in Teacher Education
- Career changers into the teaching profession
Prizes and awards
Ernst Meumann Award of the Working Group for Empirical Pedagogical Research 2023.
Contribution: Richter, E., Lucksnat, C., Redding, C. & Richter, D. (2022). Retention intention and job satisfaction of alternatively certified teachers in their first year of teaching. Teaching and Teacher Education, 114, 103704. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2022.103704
Innovative Teaching Award of the Faculty of Human Sciences at the University of Potsdam (1st place) (2023)
Teaching Project: Become a VR Teaching Partner: Practicing Teaching, Analyzing, and Giving Feedback
Nomination for the Best Paper Award of the AERA SIG “Technology as an Agent of Change in Teaching and Learning” (2023)
Presentation: Uncover Teachers' Movement and Eye Movement Patterns in Virtual Reality: Relevance for Visual Attention Performance
Innovative Teaching Award of the Faculty of Human Sciences at the University of Potsdam (2nd place) (2022)
Teaching project: #TeacherMoments - How prospective teachers can learn with the help of Twitter
AERA SIG “Instructional Technology” Best Paper Award (2021)
Presentation: Presence and Efficacy: Training Preservice Teachers' Classroom Management Skills in Virtual Reality
delina Award for innovative digital education of the international conference Learntec (2nd place) (2020)
Educational project: Virtual Reality in the training of future teachers
Innovative Teaching Award of the Faculty of Human Sciences at the University of Potsdam (1st place) (2020)
Teaching Project: Using a Virtual Reality Classroom in Teacher Education to Develop Classroom Management Skills
Award for an innovative teaching project as a distinguished project of the University of Potsdam (2019)
Educational project: Virtual Reality in the training of future teachers
Member of Professional Associations
- Working group for Empirical Educational Research (AEPF)