The study “Making Interoperability Work” calls for more guidance and orientation from policy makers and mandated stakeholder organisations to reduce systemic uncertainty, generate (technical) directionality, and actively shape a trajectory towards an interoperable European university system.
How will artificial intelligence affect our academic culture? Recent debates about GPT-3 raised concerns about AI possibly outpacing well-known forms of publication and assessment. In our Blog, Manuel Dolderer, Co-Founder and President at CODE University of Applied Sciences, pleads for new learning environments that embrace and shape technological progress. As universities, it is our job […]
Ein Jahr lang arbeitete die HFD-AG KI, Big Data und Algorithmen an der Frage, wo die Verantwortung der Hochschulen bezüglich einer immer mehr durch Algorithmen geprägten Gesellschaft und damit auch Bildungslandschaft liegt. Mit diesem Diskussionspapier legt sie ihren Abschlussbericht vor.
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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
During the EMOOCs 2019 in Naples Oliver Janoschka (Hochschulforum Digitalisierung) will chair the session “Policy Track – National Digital Initiatives”. Ville Valtonen, Chief Marketing Executive of Reaktor, is one of the speakers. Reaktor developed the Elements of AI course in collaboration with University of Helsinki. Elements of AI is a MOOC designed to teach the basics […]
The “Feasibility Study for an Inter(national) Higher Education Platform” tackles the question of if and when, and if so, how or in what guise and at what cost, a platform for digital teaching that spans all of university-level education in Germany – but also internationally – can be realized. It is a design proposal intended […]
