Projektbericht – Page 4 – Digital für Alle

March 9, 2021

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...

City and country

November 26, 2020

Media competence on the move - the mobile learning app "Ausbilderwissen"

Flexible location and time-related training for company training staff Company training staff in the skilled trades and especially in small and micro enterprises (SMEs) are extremely busy. In addition to the responsibilities for the trainees, there are other company-related tasks that need to be completed every day. Training courses lasting several days are often not possible under these circumstances. Flexible location and time-related training with a smartphone or tablet -...

Vocational training/Digital education

November 8, 2020

Digitalisation in the changing state-country interrelations

Town and country are often seen as opposites. City life is generally associated with ideas of social density, economic dynamism and social innovation. While rural areas on the one hand evoke romantic ideas of peace, slowing down and traditionality, on the other hand they are often perceived as structurally weak, outdated and backward. In reality, the living environments of people in town and country are intertwined and...

Generally/City and country

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...

Higher Education

September 17, 2020

Does urban nature make us healthy and happy? – A short report from the STUPS project: Urban nature supports psychological well-being

The anchoring effect using the example of Dresden's urban nature If you want to observe a psychological phenomenon in real life, we recommend a small experiment on the anchoring effect. All you have to do is ask a small group of people a question: How many allotment garden associations are there in Dresden? One person from the group makes the first estimate (e.g. 35 associations) and...

Generally/City and country

July 20, 2020

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...

Digital research tools

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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