science communication // University of Oldenburg

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Opportunities, limits and side effects of educational technologies

Technological innovations are changing institutions, teaching and learning processes and the roles of teachers and students. Educational technologies and digital learning infrastructures at universities are analysed from a conceptual, critical and sustainability-oriented perspective. The focus is less on individual technical systems and more on their embedding in the institutional, economic, ecological and social contexts of digital higher education. This includes central paradigms in the context of Open, Distance, and Digital Education (ODDE), dependence on commercial platforms and resource consumption. Aspects of ethics, transparency and power structures are in focus, as is the governance of digital infrastructures.

Teachers

Prof. Dr habil. Olaf Zawacki-Richter

Professor of Knowledge Transfer and Learning with New Technologies at the University of Oldenburg

Dr Berrin Cefa

Research Associate at the University of Oldenburg

Your gain in expertise

The participants can...

analyse and classify digital learning infrastructures from a critical, sustainability and organisational perspective.

can analyse and evaluate the carbon footprint of digital educational offers and infrastructures.

make a well-founded assessment of the opportunities, risks and side effects of digital educational technologies, in particular ecological and social sustainability aspects.

understand basic concepts of data-based infrastructures (e.g. learning analytics, artificial intelligence) and critically reflect on their use in terms of ethics and transparency.

analyse structural dependencies, power relations and control issues in connection with commercial and open digital education platforms.

are able to transfer international trends and discourses on educational technologies and sustainable digital higher education development to their own institutional practice and evaluate them in a reflective manner.

analyse and critically evaluate digital learning ecologies with regard to social participation, inclusive educational processes and the sustainable support of successful learning processes.

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Further education at a glance

University certificate

Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS)

Dates

The module starts on 21 October
and ends on 9 March 2027

On-site workshop
27/28 November

Online workshops
13. February

Time required and scope

5-8 hours per week, 10 credit points

Teaching format

Online plus a compact workshop at the weekend

Prerequisites

None

Costs

1,200 euros for students (1,500 euros for guest students) plus university fee

Who is the programme aimed at?

The programme is aimed in particular at

(prospective) university and science managers
Junior staff from administration, science and research
Researchers in higher education and science
School, Dean's Office or department heads

The module can be taken as certified further education or as part of the part-time degree programme in education and science management. It concludes with a Certificate of Advanced Studies. The certificate is fully credited for the MBA programme as the study module "Selected Aspects of Education and Science Management". So you can start your studies without enrolment!