Tag: New teaching/learning cultures

G4C:NGE Multiplier Event 2024: Playful Learning in Next Generation Entrepreneurship Education

The Erasmus+ project G4C:NGE cordially invites all gamification enthusiasts to the first Multiplier Event “Playful Learning in Next Generation Entrepreneurship Education” in Rotterdam. The conference offers an exciting opportunity to explore gamification as a tool to improve entrepreneurship education and to network with like-minded people from all over the world. Experience innovative approaches developed during this EU-funded project and...

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 -...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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