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Digitalisation in the changing state-country interrelations

Town and country are often seen as opposites. City life is generally associated with ideas of social density, economic dynamism and social innovation. While rural areas on the one hand evoke romantic ideas of peace, slowing down and traditionality, on the other hand they are often perceived as structurally weak, outdated and backward. In reality, the living environments of people in town and country are intertwined and...

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...

Does urban nature make us healthy and happy? – A short report from the STUPS project: Urban nature supports psychological well-being

The anchoring effect using the example of Dresden's urban nature If you want to observe a psychological phenomenon in real life, we recommend a small experiment on the anchoring effect. All you have to do is ask a small group of people a question: How many allotment garden associations are there in Dresden? One person from the group makes the first estimate (e.g. 35 associations) and...

Digitalization of education – the Media Center’s research topic for over 15 years. What can we use from this now?

The Media Center of the TU Dresden has been conducting research and development projects on topics related to digitally supported teaching, learning and research in almost all educational sectors for over 15 years in third-party funded research and development projects. The current situation shows how important and in demand digital educational infrastructures and quickly implementable didactic concepts are. Both topics are central to our research projects. Therefore, with this article we would like to present a series of...

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