Jara Martens holds a Master’s degree in Psychology with specialisation on Educational Psychology. During her studies, she investigated the possibilities of integrating artificial intelligence in education and thereby focused on the impacts conversational agents can have on collaborative learning.

She teaches the “Tech Trends & Gadgets” course from the Educational Technology M.Sc. program, which explores how technology can be integrated in the educational settings. 

Publications

Martens, J. (2023). Artificial Intelligence in Education: AI Conversational Agent for Online Collaborative Learning (Bachelor's thesis, University of Twente).

de Araujo, A., Martens, J., & Papadopoulos, P. M. (2024, July). Enhancing student dialogue productivity with learning analytics and fuzzy rules. In International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (pp. 397-404). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.

Martens, J. (2025). Conversational Agent for Online Collaborative Learning: Facilitating Productive Discussions (Master's thesis, University of Twente).