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Video conferences have proven to be an online solution for many formats of ad-hoc digital teaching during the Corona crisis. However, especially in lectures, but even in smaller seminars, the camera on the student side often remains switched off. Teachers speak against a silent wall and the hoped-for interactivity is opposed by inactivity. Professor Jörn […]
What happens when 25 German and American higher education experts* go on a joint trip? They discover many differences between the two education systems – some amazing, some expectable, some bizarre or funny. In direct exchange, however, there are also a lot of similarities. Editor Katharina Frier-Obad accompanied the Educational Experts Seminar and reports on […]
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 […]
For the second part of our learning journey, we (17 German and eight American leaders in higher education) met in Berlin from 8–13 December 2019 for another five days of talks, visits and discussions. Read part one of the learning story from the educational experts seminar taking place in the U.S. earlier this year here. […]
The use of technology in teaching should help to prepare content in a target-group oriented way and to use the high affinity of students towards new media and digital content. It is often overlooked that the integration of new technologies also implies changing demands on students and lecturers. Students who are to develop their own […]
High Tech is the flagship of South Korea. For the Asian region, the country’s progress in online education at universities is exemplary. But the demands of the digital age require approaches that cannot be solved by technology alone. Lisa Messenzehl’s article portrays Korea’s digital higher education in the balancing act between technology and Confucianism, competition […]
“Without the universities themselves having noticed it, they have become data- and software-driven institutions. This means that in many areas they use complex software systems in which data is generated on a large scale without these data (apart from research) being subjected to an evaluation.” Dr Hubertus Neuhausen, Director of the University and City Library […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
