Prof. Dr. Nicolae Nistor

• Year of birth: 1962
• Degrees:
• Engineer, Applied Electronics, TU Bucharest
• PhD, Educational Sciences, LMU Munich
• Habilitation (professorial dissertation), Media Education, LMU Munich

• Shortbio:

Nic. Nistor studied Electrical Engineering at „Politehnica“ University of Bucharest, earned his doctoral degree in year 2000 in Educational Sciences at the LMU, where he also completed his professorial dissertation in 2012 and serves as a professor since 2019. He teaches Educational Psychology of Teaching and Learning and Knowledge Media for students of Educational Sciences and teacher students. His research includes the design and evaluation of media-based learning environments, the acceptance of educational technologies, online communities, learning analytics, and media literacy focused on fake news. He is a member of the Munich Center of the Learning Sciences and an associate editor of „Computers in Human Behavior."

• Teaching and Learning with Technology
• Educational Technology Acceptance
• Knowledge Communities
• Learning Analytics

Nistor, N., Artmann, B., Isik, D., Neziri, N., & Stanciu, D. (2025). Knowledge types and cognitive processing modes associated with online news credibility assessment: An interview study. Computers in Human Behavior, 172, Article 108721. Link

Nistor, N., Hernández-García, A., Conde, M. A. (guest eds.) (2025). Learning analytics ten years after: A retrospective and research agenda. Special issue of Computers in Human Behavior. Link

Artmann, B., Scheibenzuber, C., Fendt, M., & Nistor, N. (2023). Lateral readingagainst misinformation: The cognitive processing level mediates the interventioneffect on the news credibility assessment performance. In O. Viberg, I. Jivet, P. J. Muñoz-Merino, M. Perifanou, & T. Papathoma (Eds.), Responsive and sustainableeducational futures. The 18th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, EC-TEL 2023, Aveiro, Portugal, September 4–8, 2023 (pp. 531–535), Proceedings. Springer. Link

Artmann, B., Scheibenzuber, C. & Nistor, N. (2023). Elementary school students’ information literacy: Instructional design and evaluation of a pilot training focused on misinformation. Journal of Media Literacy Education, 15(2), 31–43. Link

Fendt, M., Nistor, N., Scheibenzuber, C., & Artmann, B. (2023). Sourcing against misinformation: Effects of a scalable lateral reading training based on cognitive apprenticeship. Computers in Human Behavior, 146, Article 107820. Link

Scheibenzuber, C., Neagu, L. M., Ruseti, S., Artmann, B., Bartsch, C., Kubik, M., Dascalu, M., Trausan-Matu, S., & Nistor, N. (2023). Dialog in the echo chamber: Fake news framing predicts emotion, argumentation and dialogic social knowledge building in subsequent online discussions. Computers in Human Behavior, 140, Article 107587. Link