Jakob Ott
Jakob Ott
ZHAW
School of Management and Law
Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning
St.-Georgen-Platz 2
8400 Winterthur
Work at ZHAW
Focus
- E-Learning
- Software-Architecture
- full stack software development
Experience
Software-Developer
ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences
05 / 2009 - today
Education and Continuing education
Education
computer scientist / Informatics
training qualification in informatics
01 / 1992 - 12 / 1993
Continuing Education
CAS Agile Requirements Engineering
ZHAW
07 / 2020
Network
ORCID digital identifier
Projects
- RESOLVE Swiss: a new treatment approach in patients with low back pain / Team member / ongoing
- Integrating Generative AI-based assessment with Thesis Writer / Team member / completed
- myScripting / Team member / completed
- Seamless Writing: Expanding Technologies to Support Thesis Writing / Team member / completed
- Implementing state-of-the-art didactics – methods and research tools in academic teaching / Team member / completed
- Social Media for Education / Team member / completed
- Thesis Writer: A Web-based Learning Environment to Support Dissertation Projects (BA, MA and Doctoral Theses) / Team member / completed
- Social Media as a Catalyser for Cross National Learning / Team member / completed
- Implementing state-of-the-art didactics / methods and research tools in academic teaching / Team member / completed
- Rubberball – Enhancing Societal Resilience / Team member / completed
- MINT Agenda (Swiss Academy for Engineering Sciences) / Team member / completed
- Professional internet research for scientific information and knowledge management / Team member / completed
- Teaching Social Policy / Team member / completed
Publications
Book chapters, peer-reviewed
Rapp, C., Kruse, O. and Ott, J. (2022) 'Thesis Writer : digitale Anleitung zum wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten, Schreiben und Denken', in Dilger, B. et al. (eds) Seamless Learning. Wiesbaden: Springer, pp. 147–175. doi: 10.1007/978-3-658-34698-0_7.
Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed
- Müller Werder, C. et al. (2020) 'myScripting : Entwicklung eines digitalen Educational Design Assistenten', in Müller Werder, C. and Erlemann, J. (eds) Seamless Learning : lebenslanges, durchgängiges Lernen ermöglichen. Waxmann, pp. 177–181. doi: 10.31244/9783830992448.
- Rapp, C. and Ott, J. (2017) 'Learning analytics in academic writing instruction : opportunities provided by thesis writer (TW)', in Igel, C., Ullrich, C., and Wessner, M. (eds) Die 15. e-Learning Fachtagung Informatik (DeLFI 2017), Chemnitz, Deutschland, 5.-8. September 2017. Bonn: Gesellschaft für Informatik, pp. 391–392.
- Rapp, C. et al. (2015) 'Thesis writer : a system for supporting academic writing', in Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference Companion on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 57–60. doi: 10.1145/2685553.2702687.
Other publications
- Stehrenberger, A. et al. (2025) 'Effect of pain science education and graded sensorimotor retraining on disability in patients with chronic low back pain : a study protocol of a cluster-randomized clinical trial', in 19th International Forum for Back and Neck Pain Research in Primary Care (IBNP Forum), Davos, Switzerland, 24-27 June 2025.
- Ott, J. and König, A. (2009) Podcasting an der Hochschule : zu Definition, Nutzen, Einsatzgebieten, Einsatz in der Lehre, Umsetzung und Bereitstellung, strategischen Aspekten. Winterthur: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.
Oral conference contributions and abstracts
Müller Werder, C., Ott, J. and Erlemann, J. (2017) 'Detection, coordination and reporting of individual student competency development with myCompetence', in 17th Biennial EARLI Conference for Research on Learning and Instruction, Tampere, 29. August - 2. September 2017.