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In our blog, we regularly publish articles, opinion pieces, good practices and much more on the future of academic education. Would you also like to publish something with us? Then contact us at kommunikation@hochschulforum.org.

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Digital Campus Culture: Karlstad University’s Method “Follow A Distance Student”

Digital Campus Culture: Karlstad University’s Method “Follow A Distance Student”

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 […]

Digital and intellectual sovereignty in the age of AI: An assessment for the higher education sector

Digital and intellectual sovereignty in the age of AI: An assessment for the higher education sector

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.

Delegation trip to Estonia: Preliminary insights into modern educational approaches in cyber security and digital teaching

Delegation trip to Estonia: Preliminary insights into modern educational approaches in cyber security and digital teaching

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.

Conference Trip to the USA – Thoughts on Digitization and University Teaching

Conference Trip to the USA – Thoughts on Digitization and University Teaching

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 […]

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ChatGPT and Co. in university teaching – perspectives from students and teachers

ChatGPT and Co. in university teaching – perspectives from students and teachers

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.

Can AI revolutionise higher education? An interview with Claudia de Witt

Can AI revolutionise higher education? An interview with Claudia de Witt

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 […]

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Building a Vision for the Future of Digital Education – Interview with Siân Bayne

Building a Vision for the Future of Digital Education – Interview with Siân Bayne

An interview with Prof. Siân Bayne on building a vision for the future of digital education.

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Bologna Digital 2020 – Harnessing the potential of digitalisation in the European Higher Education Area

Bologna Digital 2020 – Harnessing the potential of digitalisation in the European Higher Education Area

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.

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Blended Learning – a Comparison of the approaches at HdM Stuttgart and NTU Singapore

Blended Learning – a Comparison of the approaches at HdM Stuttgart and NTU Singapore

The status quo of blended learning and its future. In this interview, two experts from Hochschule der Medien in Stuttgart and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore give insights into their teaching apporaches. 

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Between Margin Notes and Exam Clinic: video-assessment of legal exams

Between Margin Notes and Exam Clinic: video-assessment of legal exams

In the guest article, Sven Störmann, Project Manager E-Learning at the Centre for Legal Learning (ZJL), and Jonathan Schramm, personal consultant to the management (both Bucerius Law School, Hamburg), explain the advantages of individual feedback through video-assessment as an alternative to conventional exam correction using the example of exam preparation in law studies. This article […]

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