In this blog post, Saskia Weißenbach gives insights into the – mostly digital – project management of the DAAD project 'OpenU/ Online Pedagogical Resources for European Universities'. The project aims to test innovative policy measures to promote digital collaboration, mobility and digital teaching and learning between European universities. Weißenbach poses a.o. the following questions: How...
#SemesterHack 2.0 joined the international stage in November 2020 as part of the worldwide idea hackathon DigiEduHack. Organised by HFD, DAAD and KI-Campus, #SemesterHack 2.0 brings together idea drivers and players from the education sector. They are all united by one goal: to make digital higher education sustainable and thus change it. The Hackathon is one of over 60 teams worldwide that...
Erasmus+ Virtual Exchange is a pilot project of the European Commission within the Erasmus+ program. Since its launch at the beginning of 2018, Virtual Exchange enables young people aged 18-30 years from Europe and the Southern Mediterranean to participate in an international exchange "from home". This year the three-year term of the program will end. Not least because of the current...
"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...
The updated Digital Education Action Plan (2021-2027) of the European Commission was published in September 2020. The publication was preceded for the first time by a public consultation due to the effects of the Corona crisis on almost all stakeholders in the field of (digital) education. In the following interview with HFD, Dr. Georgi Dimitrov, Deputy Head of the Innovation and EIT...
How can diverse skills, resources, prior knowledge, experiences and needs be taken into account in digital teaching? The design of gender- & diversity-reflecting teaching is a cross-sectional task not only in the corona-conditioned exceptional mode. Together with the Network for Gender and Diversity in Teaching we are realizing a blog series in the new thematic dossier accessibility...
The Corona crisis has suddenly hit the universities. Teachers and students suddenly find themselves in virtual learning rooms. Students who were already disadvantaged before the pandemic are particularly affected by this crisis. Students with health impairments often belong to the risk group of people who are particularly at risk from corona. They have to reorganize their everyday life, with...
The corona virus is not yet over & the winter semester is approaching. Which models will the universities use to ensure teaching in autumn and winter 2020/2021? Dr. Yasmin Djabarian and Leonie Ackermann dare to take a look inside the crystal ball. The authors identify what they consider to be the most important resource of the universities for mastering the second #CoronaSemester: the...
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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...
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 Loviscach has been asking about the...
