Category: Digital education

Meetings in virtual space: Review of the GeNeMe pre-conference

This year, participants in the annual conference of the Communities in New Media (GeNeMe) were able to enjoy a real novelty: The pre-conference on September 13, 2023 was held for the first time as a "didactic double-decker". Under the title "Building bridges or creating barriers? Participation and exclusion through virtual reality in education and society", the application of virtual reality in the context of...

The OSM of the TU Dresden: The way to a secure choice of study

What should I study? Which course of study really suits me? Do I even want to study? The Orientation Course (OSM) at TU Dresden is intended to provide answers to these questions that prospective students ask themselves. With the OSM, interested parties have the chance to get a taste of various courses of study at TU Dresden for up to two semesters. They can attend lectures, take part in workshops and excursions, take exams,...

What has Corona taught us? – D2C2 examines digital testing at universities

Digital testing - i.e. conducting exams using digital tools - is not entirely new, but since Corona it has become more relevant than ever for universities and their students. What are the aspects, topics and needs in this regard? What developments will digital testing take in the future and what will the examination culture at Saxon universities look like in general? A working group of the joint project “D2C2 -...

Hopepunk, Skills Gap and Gasta – Keywords of the EDEN Conference in Dublin

A hoan, A dó, A trí, A Ceathair, A Cúig – Gasta! From now on, you have 5 minutes to represent your own position or project. This entertaining format characterizes the EDEN Conference 2023 in Dublin in many ways: it was entertaining, hospitable, typical of the country and familiar in Dublin. From June 18th to 20th, 2023, the MyEduLife project was present with a contribution...

What does EMIL actually do? – Adaptive learning in the learning management system ILIAS

In the joint project ELe-com, CODIP, in cooperation with various partners, is developing and testing a digital adaptive learning application for job-related training on the topic of customer journey/e-commerce for the ILIAS-based learning management system myFlexNet.de. In recent months, in addition to producing micro-learning units in text, audio and video format on the topic of customer journey, we have also worked intensively on the AI-supported decision module EMIL. The aim of the...

Research results on self-directed learning reach school practice

For the second time, GWT TUD GmbH, under the project management of Prof. Dr. Köhler, in collaboration with CODIP and the Ministry of the German-speaking Community of East Belgium, has conducted further training for teachers at secondary schools in East Belgium. The training is based on the results of our research project "Self-organized further training", which was carried out from 2016 to 2018, and serves to incorporate our research results into the...

Call for Papers: GeNeMe 2023 – Inclusive digital: Shaping community openly

The annual GeNeMe conference "Communities in New Media" discusses online communities in particular from an integral perspective of several disciplines such as computer science, media technology, economics, education and information science, as well as social and communication science. As a forum for a transdisciplinary dialogue, GeNeMe enables the exchange of experience and knowledge between participants from a wide range of disciplines, organizations and institutions with a focus on both research and practice. The 26th...

New learning areas in the UndiMeS project – teaching with digital media

In the learning area MEDIA DIDACTIC 2 - Teaching and learning with digital media, teachers learn how they can integrate self-created and existing digital media into their lessons in a didactically meaningful way. Finally, they implement what they have learned in a teaching concept and take part in a collegial peer review. In this way, teachers get to know this functional module of OPAL School by trying it out for themselves...

Review: Empirical status conference on digitalization in education and society

On February 6, 2023, the virtual "Empirical Status Conference on Digitalization in Education and Society" organized by CODIP took place. In addition to the subject-specific innovations presented, our research center also experienced a technical first. Instead of conventional video conferencing tools, immersive virtual reality (VR) software was used as the "venue" and meeting point. The use of the VR software "TriCAT Spaces Congress" was intended to provide a platform for the scientific online conference...

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