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From 29 to 31 July 2019, a total of 31 participants* from the fields of teaching, media and didactics met at the Akademie Berlin-Schmöckwitz for the Summer School 2019 of the Hochschulforum Digitalisierung under the motto “Shaping Higher Education Teaching Together in the Digital Age”. The map of Germany shows it: Representatives* of universities from […]
Every university uses them, (almost) every teacher and student is regularly registered here: Learning Management Systems (LMS). As part of the “University Network for Innovation in a Digital Age” initiative (Uni-D) we held a workshop on Open Source LMS and Open Educational Resources (OER) in July. In this article some of the participants report about […]
“The disruptive effect of private online platforms is underestimated”. Based on his “Paper Disruption or Evolution? Systemic framework conditions of digitisation in higher education“, Justus Henke, research associate at the Halle-Wittenberg Institute for Higher Education Research (HoF), explains, to what extent political prioritisation influences digitisation in higher education. This article was automatically translated using DeepL Translator. Please […]
On 09 September 2019 the registration for the international strategy conference Strategies Beyond Borders opens. The event is organized jointly by the Hochschulforum Digitalisierung and the German Academic Exchange Service and will take place in Berlin on 9 and 10 December. What is to be expected at the conference? Alexander Knoth of the DAAD and […]
In the guest article, Sven Störmann, Project Manager E-Learning at the Centre for Legal Learning (ZJL), and Jonathan Schramm, personal consultant to the management (both Bucerius Law School, Hamburg), explain the advantages of individual feedback through video-assessment as an alternative to conventional exam correction using the example of exam preparation in law studies. This article […]
“The aim is to promote the exchange of practical knowledge across university boundaries.” This is a success factor for sustainability. Johannes Moskaliuk, Bianca Diller and Elke Kümmel from the Leibniz Institute for Knowledge Media in Thübingen in the guest article. This article has already been published in: Synergy. Specialist magazine for digitization in teaching #07, […]
Hans-Christoph Koller, Angelika Paseka and Sandra Sprengler from the University of Hamburg discuss four dimensions of an educational perspective on sustainability in university teaching. A guest article. This article has already been published in: Synergy. Specialist magazine for digitization in teaching #07, (pp. 38 – 41). We would like to thank Synergie, the journal for […]
Prof. Dr. Michael Jäckel explains his comments on the recommendation paper of the Council for Information Infrastructures (RfII) “Digital competences – urgently needed! Recommendations on career and training prospects for the science labour market“. A guest article. This article was automatically translated using DeepL Translator. Please excuse any errors. “Every new Silicon Valley output […] is an […]
“Digitisation’ serves only as a ‘door opener’, as a Trojan horse in the best sense of the word, in order to fundamentally question old habits and old forms of learning.” A guest article by Peter England and Stefanie Brunner from eCult about digital sustainability. This article has already been published in: Synergie. Fachmagazin für Digitalisierung in […]
How can innovative teaching succeed? Prof. Dr. Ralph Sonntag has initiated a fund for innovative teaching projects at the HTW Dresden. He reports on his experiences in our blog. This article was automatically translated using DeepL Translator. Please excuse any errors. Hands support a buildingTeaching at universities is constantly changing. It is not just a matter […]
