Tag: New teaching/learning cultures

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...

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...

Digitalisation in vocational training: The DiBBLok project team is investigating factors influencing successful cooperation between learning locations

The dual system of vocational training is characterized by the cooperation between different learning locations. How the cooperation between different actors in vocational training (learning location cooperation) can be as successful as possible is the central question of the joint project "DiBBLok". The online report book "BLok" serves as the object of investigation. Based on user information on this instrument, the research project aims to find answers to questions such as...

Book publication: e-Science – Open, Social and Virtual Technology for Research Collaboration

The eScience – Research Network Saxony was an ESF-funded joint project of all Saxon universities under the leadership of the TU Dresden, the TU Bergakademie Freiberg and the HTWK Leipzig (project duration: 01.10.2011 – 31.12.2014). The goal was to conduct fundamental and differentiated research into the approaches and methods of electronically supported science (e-science). Within three thematic clusters, e-business, e-learning...

Virtual teaching collaborations – For an open, digital learning world

On December 31, 2020, the joint project "Virtual Teaching Cooperations" at the Media Center ended, which included five sub-projects at various Saxon universities: Initiative to develop a multilingual teaching and learning environment (Prof. Dr. Kirstin Hoffmann, West Saxon University of Applied Sciences Zwickau and Dr. André Matthes, TU Chemnitz) An open, digital learning world for virtual teaching cooperation using Building Information Modeling (Prof. Dr. Karsten Menzel, TU Dresden and Prof. Dr. Ulrich Möller,...

The WIR alliance “ZukunfTAlter” is committed to making Upper Lusatia a place worth living in!

Upper Lusatia will face many challenges in the future. These include demographic changes, the departure of the younger population to urban centers, the phase-out of coal and the associated problems with regard to employment and income. Nevertheless, Upper Lusatia as a region is characterized by a high degree of heterogeneity and diversity. Not least declared a "land of many opportunities", Upper Lusatia offers potential and breeding ground for innovations. The...

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...

Digitalization of education – the Media Center’s research topic for over 15 years. What can we use from this now?

The Media Center of the TU Dresden has been conducting research and development projects on topics related to digitally supported teaching, learning and research in almost all educational sectors for over 15 years in third-party funded research and development projects. The current situation shows how important and in demand digital educational infrastructures and quickly implementable didactic concepts are. Both topics are central to our research projects. Therefore, with this article we would like to present a series of...

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