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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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.
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"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.
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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 many parts of the Federal Republic of...
"Acceptance and use of the technical possibilities are the yardstick for the success of the digitization process." In the guest article Jacqueline Gasser-Beck, head of the "Teaching Innovation Lab" at the University of St.Gallen, writes a practical report about the application of the new Learning Management System "Studynet 3.0".
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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 the results....
"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.
On 09 September 2019 the registration for the international strategy conference Strategies Beyond Borders opens. The event is organized jointly by the Hochschulforum Digitalisierung and the German Academic Exchange Service and will take place in Berlin on 9 and 10 December. What is to be expected at the conference? Alexander Knoth of the DAAD and Florian Rampelt of the Hochschulforum provide a...
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.
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"The aim is to promote the exchange of practical knowledge across university boundaries." This is a success factor for sustainability. Johannes Moskaliuk, Bianca Diller and Elke Kümmel from the Leibniz Institute for Knowledge Media in Thübingen in the guest article.
This article has already been published in: Synergy. Specialist magazine for digitization in teaching #07, (pp. 50 - 53...
