Tag: Digital research environment

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Learning outcome-oriented documentation of further training in the blockchain

The current challenges of digitalization, globalization and individualization are leading to an ever faster change in job profiles and growing pressure on the lifelong development of professional skills. The importance of standardized documentation of lifelong learning biographies is increasing. Against the background of increasing micro-qualifications and constantly changing requirements, it is therefore difficult for learners to keep up with the abundance of...

ELe-com: Empowering Learning – Enabling adaptive learning in continuing professional education using the example of e-commerce

Online retail is in a steady growth phase, which has been further intensified by the Corona pandemic. This is demonstrated by rising e-commerce sales, which emerge from the current survey by the Federal Association of E-Commerce and Mail Order Germany (Bevh). This development results in a need for qualification in the area of professional training in retail - but conventional offers are no longer sufficient to cover this. There is an increasing...

EFA in testing

The current digital prototype of the learning game EFA - Safely through the jungle of obligations has been tested together with Saxon companies since May 18, 2021. The project aims to support the acquisition of skills by Saxon micro and small companies in the social services sector with regard to occupational health and safety. Test companies are thus actively involved in the game development with the aim of adapting it to the needs of social service companies.

Dresden from historical perspectives – a 4D city model for virtual exploration

Have you ever wondered how (urban) photography has changed over time? For example, was the Kronentor photographed more often or from different perspectives at the beginning of the 20th century than during the GDR era? You can find answers to these questions here: The junior research group HistStadt4D, a group of young scientists from the TU Dresden and the University of Würzburg, is developing...

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