At the latest annual conference of EDEN, the European Digital Education Network, the theme was "Yes, we can" - Digital Education for a Better Future. Johannes Schleiss was there to share with us seven insights that will have a lasting impact on our understanding of education. Let's get inspired and dream about the future of education.
“Yes, we can” was this year’s theme of the...
The digital transformation of higher education has revolutionised how universities operate and engage with their stakeholders. However, it also brings about new challenges, for instance in the realm of cybersecurity. The increase of the number of cyber attacks on universities – as Hans Pongratz, expert at the Zentrum für HochschulBildung (zhb) of TU Dortmund, pointed out as well at the...
An exciting line-up of thought-provoking panels and talks showcased at the University:Future Festival 2023 will explore the innovative approaches that are shaping the future of higher education today. In the following, HFD's own Channa van der Brug walks you through some of the most anticipated English language sessions of the festival.
With a diverse range of topics...
How will artificial intelligence affect our academic culture? Recent debates about GPT-3 raised concerns about AI possibly outpacing well-known forms of publication and assessment. In our Blog, Manuel Dolderer, Co-Founder and President at CODE University of Applied Sciences, pleads for new learning environments that embrace and shape technological progress.
As universities, it...
In November 2022, Hochschulforum Digitalisierung co-organised and led a range of activities, bringing interoperability challenges and solutions for Higher Education Institutions into focus at a German and international stage. What is interoperability in higher education about - and why is it such a relevant issue? Oliver Janoschka, managing director of HFD, interviewed Evelien Renders, advisor...
After the full-scale war in Ukraine started in February 2022, local universities were taken by surprise and had to adapt to a completely new and unpredictable reality overnight. After the first destructions, ongoing missile attacks and Russian troops coming closer to Ukrainian cities, academic institutions went “on hold...
Where does the use of a certain technology - for example a learning management system or the use of OER - stand in the higher education landscape? A stage model, developed by Martin Ebner et al., could help to describe this in the future.
Anyone who has written technical proposals for European projects knows that value is placed on an assessment of the status quo and the "...
The Kremlin's attack on Ukraine is shocking. But as stunned as the situation and the view of the news situation makes us, the willingness to help strikes us as equally impressive. The offer is growing daily and digital possibilities such as Twitter are also being used highly creatively to inform and organise offers of help, as our list of offers of help for university staff shows.
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During the University:Future Festival 2021, Bronwen Deacon and Anne Leiser led a panel discussion that focused on inequalities in global higher education at an individual, institutional, and systemic level. The two experts in the field of international education projects work at institutions that facilitate the exchange and achievement of global education goals. In this blog entry...
The importance of an interactive campus culture for students and faculty was clearly emphasized by the COVID-19 pandemic through its harsh encroachment on this very part of the university experience in recent years. The desire to be able to ensure this interactivity in educational spaces again in the future is great. According to Christian Kohls, one possible solution is clear: hybridity! He...
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