Author: Thomas Koehler

Prof. Dr. Thomas Köhler studied psychology and sociology in Jena and Swarthmore (USA) and received his doctorate in communication psychology from the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena. After a junior professorship at the University of Potsdam, he has held the professorship for educational technology at the TU Dresden since 2005. There he is also director of the media center and spokesperson for the e-learning working group (advisory board) of the Saxony Rectors' Conference.

OER for all – Theses on the conclusion of the OERinfo project at DIPF Frankfurt/Main

As a member of the advisory board of the "Information Center for Open Educational Resources" (OERinfo), Prof. Dr. Thomas Köhler, Director of the Media Center at TU Dresden, calls for increased support for the development and use of OER (see OER_Abschlusspraesentation_201102_final.pdf (open-educational-resources.de): "With the ban on large parts of classroom teaching in schools, the demand for OER was particularly boosted. Not only students, but also...

Workshop "Digital Transformation - the school as a place for digital (learning) everyday life"

Workshop "Digital Transformation - the school as a place for digital (learning) everyday life" Under the title "Digital Transformation - the school as a place for digital (learning) everyday life", the pre-conference for the conference "Communities in New Media 2020" (www.GeNeMe.de) will take place on October 7th from 3:30 p.m. at the HTW Dresden. This pre-conference will discuss new educational concepts that arise from digitization...

Open Workshop “Educational media technology and its inclusive potential”

Not only with the recent corona pandemic the inclusive potential of digital media has been considered as innovative in the light of supporting accessibility and heterogeneity in any educational context. Formal education, namely general and higher education, does have a further educational mandate and is encouraged to submit innovative offers for social participation. Teaching at school and university – so...

Social Media in Studies – the Student Life Cycle

What are the possibilities for the effective use of social media in studies? Although learning always takes place in social communities, it is only recently that higher education teaching has become more focused on the use of media in this social dimension. It is undoubtedly necessary and important to understand what support can look like in higher education teaching and for university teachers. But although...

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