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Individual Digital Study Assistant for Higher Education Institutions: Status Quo Analysis and Further Research Agenda

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Today, digital assistants can support students during their studies. A quick and easily useable and accessible information transfer, individually tailored to the students’ needs is required. Individual educational biographies and an increasing number of students require individual information provision and advice. Research on digital assistance systems has increased dramatically over the past decade. We focus on the individual digital study assistant (IDSA) field with its functionalities embedded in a typical student life cycle (SLC). In order to determine the status quo of DSA, we conduct a literature review with a focus on their functionalities. One research finding indicates that the DSA field generates a wide range of DSA functionalities. We structured them developing a morphological box. Finally, we discuss a further research agenda for the development, adaption, introduction, and success of IDSA.

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Our research project “SIDDATA” is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (FKZ 16DHB2123).

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Karrenbauer, C., König, C.M., Breitner, M.H. (2021). Individual Digital Study Assistant for Higher Education Institutions: Status Quo Analysis and Further Research Agenda. In: Ahlemann, F., Schütte, R., Stieglitz, S. (eds) Innovation Through Information Systems. WI 2021. Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organisation, vol 48. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86800-0_8

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