Dr. Robert Rentzsch

"Behind the many buzzwords, a lot of in-depth conceptual work is required to promote digitalisation in education. Together with extensive research, also to avoid 'reinventing the wheel' (or the whitepaper), this is what I do at the iit."
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Focus of work

  • Digitalisation in education
  • Data standards
  • Digital credentials
  • Skills intelligence
  • Microcredentials
  • Data science and AI

Curriculum vitae

At the Institute for Innovation and Technology (iit), Robert Rentzsch works as a senior consultant and project manager on topics related to the digitalisation of the education system. His expertise covers, for example, data standards, digital credentials, competency frameworks, skills intelligence, and the microcredentials movement. Methodologically, his work is based on in-depth research and extensive publication experience on the one hand, and on data science and the development of data pipelines on the other. Before joining the iit, Dr. Rentzsch spent several years as a postdoctoral researcher focusing on data science and applied machine learning. He earned his PhD in bioinformatics from University College London. Over the years, he has peer-reviewed more than 30 scientific papers and authored several highly cited articles.

Publications

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Rentzsch, Robert (2023): Microcredentials auf Hochschulniveau – Ansätze zum Umgang mit einem bildungspolitischen Trend
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Rentzsch, Robert; Goluchowicz, Kerstin (2022): Datenaustausch im Bildungssystem
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Rentzsch, Robert (2021): Digital Credentials in Education - The Situation in Germany and Europe in 2020
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Rentzsch, Robert (2021): Digitale Bildungsnachweise
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Bertini, Anastasia ; Pentenrieder, Elisabeth Anna ; Rebentisch, Jan; Schaat, Samer; Rentzsch, Robert (2020): Manipulationssichere und per Knopfdruck verifizierbare Digital Credentials: Die Blockchain als Initiator internationaler Kooperationsprojekte. In: Hochschulforum Digitalisierung (Hrsg.). Digitalisierung in Studium und Lehre gemeinsam gestalten. Innovative Formate, Strategien und Netzwerke. HFD-Sammelband.
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Rentzsch, Robert; Staneva, Mila (2020): „Skills-Matching“ und „Skills Intelligence“ durch kuratierte und datengetriebene Ontologien, Proceedings des Workshops „Kompetenzen digital“ der DELFI/EC-TEL Konferenz 2020.
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Rentzsch, Robert; Shajek, Alexandra; Vogel-Adham, Elke; Hartmann, Andreas Ernst (2020): Standardisierung in der wissenschaftlichen Weiterbildung als ein Kernprozess der Professionalisierung. In: Zeitschrift Hochschule und Weiterbildung (2). S. 19-26.
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Rentzsch, Robert; Renard, Bernhard Y.; Nitsche, Andreas; Deneke, Carlus (2019): Predicting Bacterial Virulence Factors: evaluation of machine learning and negative data strategies. In: Briefings in Bioinformatics. Vol. 21, No. 5. S. 1596–1608.
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Bartoszewicz, Jakub M. ; Seidel, Anja; Rentzsch, Robert; Renard, Bernhard Y. (2019): DeePaC: predicting pathogenic potential of novel DNA with reverse-complement neural networks. In: Bioinformatics, Vol. 36, No. 1. S. 81–89.