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At the last annual conference of EDEN, the European Network for Digital Education, the motto was “Yes, we can” – Digital Education for a Better Future. Johannes Schleiss was in Dublin for us and draws seven important lessons from the presentations. “Yes, we can” was this year’s motto of the annual conference of EDEN, the […]
The digital transformation of higher education has revolutionized the way universities operate and engage with their stakeholders. However, it brings new challenges, for example in the area of cybersecurity. The increasing number of Cyberattacks on universities – as does Hans Pongratz, an expert at the Center for Higher Education (zhb) at TU Dortmund University, at […]
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 […]
In this article, Professor Andreas Schleicher delineates his vision of the digital turn in global higher ecducation.
Philipp Höllermann was one of experts who took part in an official visit to several higher education institutions in Southeast Asia, organised by Hochschulforum Digitalisierung (HFD). In this blog post, he shares his insights on what Souteast Asia might teach us regarding the digitisation of higher education institutions in Germany. It’s a funny thing with […]
“Leadership is a process by which a person or group influences the behavior of others. In this sense, it is associated with authority. Humans want to be the strongest. While they are currently physically stronger than most other creatures on Earth due to their ability to use tools, this advantage is rapidly diminishing as artificial […]
The importance of an interactive campus culture for students and faculty was clearly emphasized by the COVID-19 pandemic through its harsh encroachment on this very part of the university experience in recent years. The desire to be able to ensure this interactivity in educational spaces again in the future is great. According to Christian Kohls, […]
The written word has a lasting effect, it is fixed and almost irrevocable. Can e-learning make a decisive contribution to combating discrimination and maintain fairness and transparency? And how does this compare to classroom teaching, where communication is situational and spontaneous? Dipl.-Ing. Julia Knopp from the RWTH Aachen University is investigating these questions.
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”. The digital transformation of all areas of life […]
In November 2022, Hochschulforum Digitalisierung co-organised and led a range of activities, bringing interoperability challenges and solutions for Higher Education Institutions into focus at a German and international stage. What is interoperability in higher education about – and why is it such a relevant issue? Oliver Janoschka, managing director of HFD, interviewed Evelien Renders, advisor […]
