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The long-term integration of those seeking refuge in Germany will be one of the central tasks facing our society in the coming years. In this regard, education will have a key role with regard to integrating refugees and enabling them to gain qualifications. Higher education institutions, together with other players in the field of adult […]
At the beginning of the new academic year, three ad-hoc working groups will again be starting in the Higher Education Forum – one of them this time again being the Studentische Zukunfts-AG “DigitalChangeMaker“. While the last year’s class of digitisation enthusiasts recently published their thesis paper on the digitisation of universities from a student perspective […]
As we look back on one year of remote learning in higher education due to Covid-19, it is time for a recap. What modes of teaching work and how are the students doing? This month, we focus on Digital Campus Culture, asking the question: What have we learned so far and what can we learn […]
To what extent can universities still be considered digitally sovereign in the age of AI? How dependent are they on commercial AI providers, and what can they shape themselves? And: do universities also need to take language models into their own hands to ensure independent scientific thinking? Dr. Peter Salden from the Centre for Science Didactics at Ruhr University Bochum provides an overview and assesses the current situation. The text was written on the basis of his contribution to the expert hearing Digital Sovereignty, which was Hochschulforum Digitalisierung organized in Cologne in December 2024.
How can universities prepare students for the challenges of cyber security in a practical way - and what can be learned from other countries? As part of a delegation trip to Estonia, Cyber Campus NRW is looking for international impulses for digital teaching, student participation and cooperative education models. The blog post highlights the expectations of the trip and its relevance for the German higher education landscape.
The trip to the USA and the conference participation of Frontiers in Education and Learning with MOOCs presented as a Learning Journey. Marco Winzker reports on the use of virtual reality in diversity management, cloud software for universities and predicts a change in the education system through MOOCs. During his stay in Chicago, Winzker experienced the future of digitized everyday […]
The release of ChatGPT in November 2022 has led to the wider use of artificial intelligence (AI) reaching into the mainstream. AI tools have long since found their way into colleges and universities. But how do students and teachers actually view this change? What are the opportunities and challenges of using AI tools in university teaching? Lukas Erle, Thomas Hoss and Prof. Dr. Sabrina Eimler (Department of Human Factors & Gender Studies at the Institute of Computer Science at the Ruhr West University of Applied Sciences in Bottrop) put these and other questions to students and teachers at various German colleges and universities.
Artificial intelligence in higher education raises great expectations for improved quality of teaching and learning. As a professor of educational theory and media pedagogy at the FernUniversität in Hagen, Claudia de Witt researches methods and applications of AI in studying, teaching and further education. In an interview with Prof. de Witt, Lavinia Ionica, program manager […]
An interview with Prof. Siân Bayne on building a vision for the future of digital education.
On December 14th 2018, Hochschulforum Digitalisierung hosted an international expert workshop on ‘Bologna Digital 2020’ in Berlin. In the next phase the participants will continue to work together to formulate a white paper for a Bologna Process, which fully harnesses the potential of digitalisation to improving teaching and learning in the EHEA.
