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April 7, 2021

The Third Way (T3W): Developing a new curriculum for social enterprise for European graduates

The Third Way (T3W) is a project devised to improve communication and knowledge sharing between the vocational and higher education sector and social enterprises (The so-called Third Sector). At the heart of the project proposal is the development of a new curriculum pathway for students from different educational domains around vocational and business subjects wishing to become social entrepreneurs. The...
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October 19, 2020

Let's go – with Playful OPAL

With the digitalization of education, universities are being asked to provide new teaching and learning formats enriched with digital technologies. Almost all universities in Saxony can rely on a central e-learning infrastructure to support everyday teaching and individual, flexible online studies: the learning management system (LMS) OPAL. But how can OPAL courses be gamified? Playful OPAL can provide an initial answer. In addition to scripts and...
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September 9, 2020

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...
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July 7, 2020

Onboarding by Gamification – the study assistance system gOPAL breaks new ground in supporting the initial study phase

Willi is new to the TU Dresden. He is a freshman at the Faculty of Economics and, upon entering the university, he has immersed himself in a new world that is completely different to school. Examination regulations, internships, OPAL, Schumann Building, student council and SLUB are just a few things that he still has to understand and learn - and that's in addition to...
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June 5, 2020

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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16.04.2020

Enabling scalable individual support and supervision for students – development of design concepts in the tech4comp project

In the current situation, the digitization of courses must be done ad hoc and raises many fundamental questions: How do students get access to the materials? How can teachers and students communicate securely with each other? How can students exchange ideas? There are already a number of tools available for this purpose that are currently being intensively tested, used and...
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