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 ...
Artificial intelligence in higher education raises great expectations for improved quality of teaching and learning. As a professor of educational theory and media pedagogy at the FernUniversität in Hagen, Claudia de Witt researches methods and applications of AI in studying, teaching and further education. In an interview with Prof. de Witt, Lavinia Ionica, program manager 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...
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Digital university teaching without presence formats - a state of affairs that would not have been conceivable without a worldwide pandemic. It remains to be seen what changes will take place in the New Normal as soon as the corona virus no longer forces us to keep our distance. At the beginning of October, the University:Future Festival (UFF) made the disruption to university teaching...
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...
