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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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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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Prof. Dr. Marco Winzker
05.12.19
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Digital Changemakers: Full of Ideas and Zest for Action — Kick-Off of the New Year of the Student Future AG

Digital Changemakers: Full of Ideas and Zest for Action — Kick-Off of the New Year of the Student Future AG

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 […]

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René Rahrt
08.11.19
The twelve new DigitalChangeMakers, together with their AG coordinator Yasmin Djabarian and Oliver Janoschka, head of the office of the Stifterverband, are looking forward to future cooperation.

My Learning Journey – Educational Experts 2019 in Boston and New York

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My Learning Journey – Educational Experts 2019 in Boston and New York

In early October 2019, a group of 17 Germans and eight Americans embarked on a learning journey through Boston and New York. They visited the MIT, Harvard University, edX and The New School – just to name a few. Susanne Staude of University of Applied Sciences Ruhr West kept a learning diary of the journey and shares […]

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Prof. Dr. Susanne Staude
08.11.19
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Fab-Labs and Makerspaces as Digital University Infrastructure – Potentials of Open Workshops for an Open University

Fab-Labs and Makerspaces as Digital University Infrastructure – Potentials of Open Workshops for an Open University

“Digital prototyping and experimentation with hardware offers many potentials for universities: (interdisciplinary) research, (applied) teaching, student projects offer space for further development, cooperation and exchange with civil society and companies as well as cooperation with schools and public institutions that cannot operate such an infrastructure”. In her guest article, Melanie Stilz, from the BMBF-funded research […]

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Melanie Stilz
29.10.19
Fab-Lab & Maker-Space.

What motivates university teachers to digitise their teaching? New HFD Working Group wants to provide answers!

What motivates university teachers to digitise their teaching? New HFD Working Group wants to provide answers!

The new HFD Community Working Group (CWG) is investigating what motivates university teachers to digitise their teaching. The HFD Community Working Group (CWG) “Motivational factors for lecturers to implement digitally supported teaching” is a group of participants* of the HFD Summer School 2019 within a “barcamp session”. The digital transformation of all areas of life […]

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Anika Kneiphoff, Fabian Schumacher, Tobias Ademmer, Sophie Bülter, Prof. Dr. Stefan Sesselmann
23.10.19

How does online teaching work in fragile contexts? A guest article by Dr. Katja Jung

How does online teaching work in fragile contexts? A guest article by Dr. Katja Jung

Blended learning models are able to facilitate access to international educational opportunities for students in fragile contexts. A new handbook provides guidelines and ideas for donors, university leaders and practitioners on how to do this. This article was automatically translated using DeepL Translator. Please excuse any errors. One of the most bitter consequences of violent political conflicts […]

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Dr. Katja Jung
23.09.19
The course takes up the special atmosphere of the intellectual encounter of the past and transfers it to the present by primarily addressing Israeli and Palestinian students.

Digital higher education at European level. An interview with Dr. Valerie Lemarquand

Digital higher education at European level. An interview with Dr. Valerie Lemarquand

“We are behind America and China relating to artificial intelligence, so Europe has to do something to exist.” In this interview, Dr. Valerie Lemarquand, University Attaché at the Embassy of France in Germany, talks about digitisation in higher education on a European level. What status does higher education have for the European community? Higher education is […]

Philipp Kürten
20.09.19
An interview with Dr. Valerie Lemarquand on digital higher Education at European Level.

Welcome to the HFD Summer School 2019

Welcome to the HFD Summer School 2019

From 29 to 31 July 2019, a total of 31 participants* from the fields of teaching, media and didactics met at the Akademie Berlin-Schmöckwitz for the Summer School 2019 of the Hochschulforum Digitalisierung under the motto “Shaping Higher Education Teaching Together in the Digital Age”. The map of Germany shows it: Representatives* of universities from […]

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Anika Kneiphoff, Matthias Kostrzewa
16.09.19

Open for all: Learning Management Systems and OER in university teaching

Open for all: Learning Management Systems and OER in university teaching

Every university uses them, (almost) every teacher and student is regularly registered here: Learning Management Systems (LMS). As part of the “University Network for Innovation in a Digital Age” initiative (Uni-D) we held a workshop on Open Source LMS and Open Educational Resources (OER) in July. In this article some of the participants report about […]

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Matthias Andrasch, Dr. Alexander Classen, Dr. Tina Ladwig
06.09.19

Digitisation in higher education is also a matter of policy prioritisation. An article by Justus Henke

Digitisation in higher education is also a matter of policy prioritisation. An article by Justus Henke

“The disruptive effect of private online platforms is underestimated”. Based on his “Paper Disruption or Evolution? Systemic framework conditions of digitisation in higher education“,  Justus Henke, research associate at the Halle-Wittenberg Institute for Higher Education Research (HoF), explains, to what extent political prioritisation influences digitisation in higher education. This article was automatically translated using DeepL Translator. Please […]

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Justus Henke
04.09.19
"Disruption or evolution? Systemic framework conditions of digitisation in higher education".
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