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MSc Charlotte Vössing

PhD Student

Charlotte Vössing is a research assistant at the Educational Psychology Lab at UniDistance Suisse. After completing her Master's degree in Psychology at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau, she is now pursuing her doctorate on the design of complex learning materials. Her research focuses on how learning materials can be structured to foster learners' interest development and thereby improve learning outcomes.

In the KeBNE project, she applies this perspective to the communication of findings in the field of Education for Sustainable Development.

Research focus

In my doctoral research, I investigates the design of complex learning materials. I focus on the interplay between cognitive and motivational processes that occur when learners engage with such materials. Specifically, I examine how learning materials can be designed to support learners' interest development, for example through emotional design or narrative framing. When learners develop an interest in the learning content, they are better able to deploy their cognitive resources effectively, which in turn can improve learning outcomes.

The KeBNE project focuses on how research findings on Education for Sustainable Development can be presented in a way that sparks teachers' interest. Since teachers bring very different attitudes to this topic, the project emphasizes the adaptive design of learning materials:  materials that are tailored to each teacher's individual beliefs as starting point.

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Educational Psychology Lab

Faculty of Psychology

Type and Tale: The Effects of Typography and Narratives on Comprehension
2025-10
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.5678368
  • Tino Endres
  • Juliette C. Désiron
  • Charlotte Vössing
  • Lukas Beck
  • Erik Spiekermann
  • Alexander Renkl
preprint
Sustaining focus when It's hardest: Emotional design strengthens sustained learning, especially in contexts with attractive alternatives
2025-08 | Computers & Education
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2025.105313
  • Tino Endres
  • Charlotte Vössing
  • K. Ann Renninger
  • Alexander Eitel
  • Alexander Renkl
Journal article
Interesse wecken und halten - Wie emotional gestaltete Lernvideos ausdauerndes Lernen in der BNE fördern und die MINT-Bildung unterstützen könnten
2025-05 | KlimaWandelBar
DOI: 10.60530/OPUS-3478
  • Tino Endres
  • Charlotte Vössing
  • Christian Hörsch
Journal article
Why narrative frames matter for instructional videos: A value-evoking narrative frame is essential to foster sustained learning with emotional design videos
2024-12 | Learning and Instruction
DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2024.101962
  • Tino Endres
  • Alexander Eitel
  • K. Ann Renninger
  • Charlotte Vössing
  • Alexander Renkl
Journal article

Teaching

B1 Pädagogische Psychologie I Master of Science in Psychology
B2 Pädagogische Psychologie II Master of Science in Psychology

Functions at UniDistance Suisse

Faculty of Psychology

  • PhD Student

Educational Psychology Lab

  • Research Assistant