September 26, 2022

Invitation to the project rally – The training course “undime – teaching with digital media” introduces itself

Digital media make school lessons more interactive, individual, efficient and inclusive - if they are used by teachers in a targeted and tailored manner. The BMBF-funded development project "UndiMeS - Teaching with Digital Media in Saxony" has intensively examined how prospective or already employed teachers can be qualified to do this. The project results and products to date will now be presented, discussed and used in an exciting project rally...
Categories Teacher training
August 10, 2022

MyEduLife: Results of the online survey of continuing education participants

How are continuing education certificates currently stored and used? How could this be done digitally in the future? The MyEduLife project aims to use blockchain technology to create a comparable, verified and networked way of documenting continuing education activities in an application (wallet). In order to take the requirements of the user groups into account, the current usage routines of continuing education participants and the storage methods of the certificates were recorded using an online survey. About the...
Categories Vocational training/Digital education
July 26, 2022

Project completion: EFA has escaped the jungle of obligations

After a total of more than three years, the project "EFA - Digital adaptive learning game for vocational training and further education" came to a successful conclusion in June 2022. Since May 2019, we in the project team have been working on the goal of supporting the acquisition of skills by Saxon micro and small enterprises in the social services sector with regard to the topic of occupational health and safety. To this end, we developed, among other things, an adaptive...
Categories Generally/Vocational training/Digital education
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
June 27, 2022

Adaptive and individual learning with digital learning formats: Survey results in the ELe-com project

  Have you ever acquired knowledge on the Internet for your professional activities? This is one of 25 questions that had to be answered in an online survey lasting around 15 minutes as part of a target group analysis. Here is the background: In the ELe-com project, a digital adaptive learning application for job-related further training on the subject of e-commerce is being developed and tested in the ILIAS learning management system. As part of...
Categories Uncategorized
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
April 27, 2022

More than marketing: Competence development for the real estate industry using virtual reality

Virtual Reality (VR) has been a trending topic in our society for a long time, and not just since a world-famous IT company started working hard on a digital metaverse. One of the industries that is increasingly making use of the advantages of this technology is the real estate industry. The current status, background and prospects of the application of VR in this area were also addressed...
Categories Generally/Vocational training
April 4, 2022

Call for Papers: GeNeMe 2022 – Digitality and Diversity

The GeNeMe "Communities in New Media" looks particularly at online communities at the interface or from the perspective of several disciplines such as computer science, media technology, economics, education and information science, and social and communication science. As a forum for transdisciplinary dialogue between science, business, organizations and administration, it enables the exchange of experience and knowledge between participants from a wide range of disciplines, organizations and institutions. The focus of this year's GeNeMe is...
Categories Generally/Vocational training/Digital education/Digital research tools
March 15, 2022

Making learning experiences visible and comparable – approaches in the MyEduLife project

Occupations and the requirements for professional activities are changing faster and more frequently due to social developments. Traditional job profiles are disappearing, and new job profiles such as social media manager, sustainability manager or IT security manager are emerging. But existing job profiles are also changing, and in many jobs, new tasks are being added that require the use of digital technologies (keyword: digital skills) or the consideration of environmental requirements (keyword:...
Categories Vocational training/Digital education
January 11, 2022

weiter.digital: Start of the final test phase

In the research and development project "weiter.digital", digital learning tools for workplace-integrated further training in small and medium-sized companies (in Saxony) are being developed and tested. After an iterative conception and implementation period of more than two years, the final testing phase of the learning tools developed in the project began with the virtual network conference "Digitally supported education in the context of an innovative working world" on November 24, 2021. Do your employees also work...
Categories Vocational training/Digital education/Digital research tools/Higher Education
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