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April 24, 2024

CODIP supports immersive virtual exchange of nutritionists

The Federal Working Group for Vocational Training in the Field of Nutrition and Home Economics (BAG E&H) organizes an annual winter school that offers teachers and students in this field from all over Germany a platform for cross-university exchange, networking activities and the opportunity to get to know new colleagues and didactic practices. The junior professorship for this year's event, which took place from February 19 to 22, was responsible for organizing...
Categories Digital education/Digital research tools/Higher Education
April 22, 2024

Exploring historical photographs of Dresden in 4D: TU Dresden's online research tool in an exhibition for the first time

Since April 16, visitors have been able to take a journey through time through Dresden at the COSMO Science Forum in Dresden. There, the online research tool 4D Browser, developed at the Center for Open Digital Innovation and Participation (CODIP) at the Technical University of Dresden, will be presented to the public for the first time via a touch screen. Until now, the tool, which has been jointly developed at the TU Dresden and the University of Würzburg since 2016, was only available in a...
Categories Digital research tools/City and country
December 11, 2023

Learning through play: Gami|cation as an innovation bridge between gamification and education

As the challenges of getting young people excited about complex learning content and motivating them in the long term increase, gamification is becoming increasingly important as an experience-oriented approach in education. This is why the CODIP's Digital Learning and Gaming Cultures (DLSK) cluster focused this year on the fusion of gamification and education, which resulted in the game Gami|cation - The Learning and Teaching Adventure. Gami|cation aims to...
Categories Digital education/Digital research tools
October 6, 2023

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...
Categories Digital education/Digital research tools
September 20, 2023

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,...
Categories Digital education/Digital research tools
February 28, 2023

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...
Categories Digital education/Digital research tools
February 13, 2023

Lecturers live out of a suitcase!? – Start of development of a methodology toolbox for the cooperative design of digital university teaching

The aim of the recently launched BMBF project "KoKoN2 - Competent Collaboration in the Network" is to provide university lecturers with easy and secure access to high-quality and didactically prepared teaching and learning methods via the "Digital Networking Infrastructure Education". The developments of the pandemic years have made us very aware of the challenges of digitization and digital transformation in education and in particular in university teaching....
Categories Vocational training/Digital education/Digital research tools/Teacher training
July 12, 2022

6 years of gOPAL – over 2000 users – summary and a look into the future.

The digital study assistance system gOPAL serves as an interface for new students in STEM and economics as well as teacher training courses to the wide range of support services at the Technical University of Dresden. It provides gamified knowledge modules on subject content, campus, study processes and strategies to support the precarious initial phase of study in a timely and needs-based manner. Since the start of the gOPAL era (2016), over 2000 students have been enrolled in the gOPAL courses. In comparison to the...
Categories Digital education/Digital research tools
May 30, 2022

Experience self-directed learning for yourself: A workshop for teachers

As part of the “weiter.digital” project, Michelle Pippig from the Center for Open Digital Innovation and Participation (CODIP) at the Technical University of Dresden, together with her colleague Jana Riedel, conducted a three-hour, practice-oriented workshop on the topic of “Self-directed learning in vocational education” for teachers at the Academy of Business and Administration (AWV) and the Academy for Vocational Education (AFBB) Dresden on May 9, 2022...
Categories Vocational training/Digital education/Digital research tools/Teacher training
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