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., & Ott, J. (2022). Thesis Writer : digitale Anleitung zum wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten, Schreiben und Denken. In B. Dilger, J. Erlemann, C. Müller, & C. Rapp (eds.), Seamless Learning (pp. 147–175). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-34698-0_7
Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed
- Müller Werder, C., Rapp, C., Erlemann, J., Ott, J., Reichmuth, A., & Steingruber, D. (2020). myScripting : Entwicklung eines digitalen Educational Design Assistenten [Conference paper]. In C. Müller Werder & J. Erlemann (eds.), Seamless Learning : lebenslanges, durchgängiges Lernen ermöglichen (pp. 177–181). Waxmann. https://doi.org/10.31244/9783830992448
- Rapp, C., & Ott, J. (2017). Learning analytics in academic writing instruction : opportunities provided by thesis writer (TW) [Conference paper]. In C. Igel, C. Ullrich, & M. Wessner (Eds.), Die 15. e-Learning Fachtagung Informatik (DeLFI 2017), Chemnitz, Deutschland, 5.-8. September 2017 (pp. 391–392). Gesellschaft für Informatik.
- Rapp, C., Kruse, O., Erlemann, J., & Ott, J. (2015). Thesis writer : a system for supporting academic writing [Conference paper]. Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference Companion on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing, 57–60. https://doi.org/10.1145/2685553.2702687
Other publications
- Stehrenberger, A., Careddu, S., Degenfellner, J., Pfeiffer, F., Meier, M., Ott, J., Rapp, C., Koponen, M., Luomajoki, H., & Benz, T. (2025, June 26). 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. 19th International Forum for Back and Neck Pain Research in Primary Care (IBNP Forum), Davos, Switzerland, 24-27 June 2025.
- Ott, J., & König, A. (2009). Podcasting an der Hochschule : zu Definition, Nutzen, Einsatzgebieten, Einsatz in der Lehre, Umsetzung und Bereitstellung, strategischen Aspekten. ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.
Oral conference contributions and abstracts
Müller Werder, C., Ott, J., & Erlemann, J. (2017). Detection, coordination and reporting of individual student competency development with myCompetence. 17th Biennial EARLI Conference for Research on Learning and Instruction, Tampere, 29. August - 2. September 2017.