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 and open education....
"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 Cologne and member of the ad-hoc...
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...
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...
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 her insights in this blog post.
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"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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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.
The course takes up the special atmosphere of...
"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.
Higher education is very important in...
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...
