In the series SemesterHack Spotlight we take a look behind the scenes at the winning projects of SemesterHack 2.0, which was held in November 2020 as part of the global hackathon DigiEduHack. Amy Pradell conducted the following interview with Dr Andreas Lingnau from the winning project “Learnflix.” It is one of 12 global finalists at DigiEduHack. ...
Students at German universities are in the middle of the third examination phase during the pandemic – and many universities are still ill-prepared for it. In the following, Leonie Ackermann explains why online proctoring is (still) not a good idea and at the same time gives an insight into the technical functioning of common service providers such as Proctorio and Examity.
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In March 2020, the Corona School was created within 48 hours in the #WirVsVirus Hackathon of the German government. The student initiative addresses the problem of school closures across Germany with an idea that is as simple as it is progressive: students* receive free and digital 1-to-1 learning support from dedicated students. In May 2020, the Corona School team at the ...
Due to COVID-19, it will not be possible to start operations at the universities in the usual form for the winter semester either. Up to now, the switch to digital teaching has sometimes worked better and sometimes worse. One thing is certain, however: it happened at a speed that would not have been possible under other circumstances. Thanks are also due to software providers who offered...
"The good will of students and lecturers for activating teaching and learning through digital offerings is mostly present. The misery does not only begin with the application of digital tools and services, but already with the availability of hardware and software". A commentary on "media literacy and the end of commitment in the online semester" by Linda Budde and Jana Panke, both from...
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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...
The effects of digitisation on work and life are gender dependent. This is not the only reason why women need to be more involved in the research and design of digitisation in order to participate equally in decision-making processes and help shape the digital transformation. In the guest article, Prof. Dr. Swetlana Franken, Professor of Business Administration and Head of the Think Tank...
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 and was busy with the final...
"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...
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".
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