Didactics of Computing Science
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The workrooms of the Department of Didactics of Computing Science are located on the central Haarentor campus, at Uhlhornsweg 84, in building A2 (Brückengebäude), 2nd level. (currently largely home office)
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Didactics of Computing Science
The "Didactics of Computing Science" department is responsible for the training and further education of Computing Science teachers at the University of Oldenburg. It also offers a specialisation for students of specialised subjects with a career aspiration in education-related fields of Computing Science. In our research projects - often financed by third-party funding and in co-operation with other subject didactics departments - teaching materials are developed and student perceptions and conditions for teacher training in Computing Science are investigated.
In co-operation with the ofz, the Teacher Training Centre for Computing Science also offers many teacher training courses and advice for teachers.
The Computing Science Learning Lab is used for university teacher training as well as for further education and research.
You will find information on our websites
- about research activities and projects,
- about the people who belong to the department,
- especially for Computing Science teachers
- about topics for final theses
and much more.
If you have any questions or suggestions, please get in contact with us.
Future Day 2025
On 3 April 2025, the University of Oldenburg opened its doors to pupils with various workshops as part of Future Day. The Didactics of Computing Science department also took part with a workshop in which nine schoolgirls learnt about 3D printing. During the introduction to BlockCAD, a small name tag was created, which the pupils were allowed to take home with them immediately after the workshop. They then had the opportunity to model their own 3D objects with BlockCAD. Due to the brevity of the workshop and the duration of the printing process, these were printed in the following days and have since been sent to the students' schools.
Ahoy Mint Days 2023
There were exciting hands-on activities at The Smart House Oldenburg on 8 and 9 August 2023! Children, young people and parents were invited to discover and get to know STEM activities (STEM = Mathematics, Computing Science, Natural Sciences and Technology) and the variety of extracurricular learning centres in the Northwest region. Just like at the AHOI_MINT Festival 2022, you could experiment, programme, tinker and try things out to your heart's content. The MINT Cluster NordWest would like to thank you for your visit! Thanks also to all the members who got involved!
MI(N)T-MACHSTÄNDE were organised by:
- AHOI_MINT Cluster NordWest
- The Smart House Oldenburg
- OLELA Oldenburg Teaching-Learning Rooms
- EWE Netz GmbH
- State Museum of Nature and Man
- Jade University
- Anna Schwarz House
- Weiss Technik Vierol AG
- Oldenburg Energy Cluster - OLEC
- OFFIS - Institute for Computing Science
- Oldenburg City Library
Year 7 gets a taste of IT in Oldenburg
Excursion for Year 7 pupils to the Computing Science lab at the University of Oldenburg
What do eye blinks, a 3D printer and a pocket spy have in common? All three played a central role in the Computing Science Learning Lab at the University of Oldenburg, where classes 7c and 7d spent an interesting and educational morning on Friday, 6 December 2019. They were given an insight into the content and methods of the subject of Computing Science. Two weeks earlier, classes 7a and 7b had already taken part in an identical event.
Part of the morning consisted of station-based learning, in which various basics of the subject of Computing Science were taught. The topics covered included encryption, information transfer, 3D printing, the mobile phone as a "spy in your pocket", the dangers of public Wi-Fi networks, mobile communications, artificial intelligence and the limits of computers, with the focus on exploring and trying things out for yourself.
The second workshop was an Internet game designed to familiarise the pupils with how the Internet works. In role-playing games, the seventh-graders took on the roles of client, server, provider and router and simulated the processes that take place when a website is opened.
The extracurricular learning centre offered numerous insights into the work of the subject Computing Science. The collaboration with students and lecturers from the University of Oldenburg was particularly exciting.
Many thanks to the learning lab at the University of Oldenburg for the instructive insights. We would also like to thank the Verein der Eltern und Freunde des Gymnasiums Brake e.V. for their financial support in organising the event.
Picture and article credits: Mrs Küwen
www.presse.uni-oldenburg.de/mit/2019/387.html
13 November 2019 387/19 Personnel
Discovering Computing Science together
Computer science didactics expert Ira Diethelm honoured for Oldenburg's IT2School teaching concept
Oldenburg. Getting children and young people interested in maths, Computing Science, Natural Sciences and Technology (MINT): Oldenburg computer science didactics expert Prof. Dr Ira Diethelm has been awarded a certificate of honour in the competition for the Polytechnik Prize for STEM Didactics for her computer science teaching concept "IT2School". Diethelm received the certificate, which recognises IT2School as one of the eight best concepts for "dealing with diversity in STEM education", at the award ceremony in Frankfurt am Main. The prize, which has been awarded by the Polytechnische Gesellschaft foundation since 2011, is under the patronage of the Federal Minister of Education and Research.
In the IT2School project, Diethelm and her team have developed and tested materials to make computer science lessons more attractive - or to be able to offer them in schools in the first place. The materials are also intended to introduce non-specialist teachers to computer science lessons. They and their pupils learn together how data is transferred, how to programme apps or how 3D printing works. Supported by project partner "Wissensfabrik", a corporate network, more than 100 schools across Germany are already putting the concept into practice.
Diethelm has been teaching and researching the didactics of Computing Science at the University of Oldenburg since 2008. She studied at the Technical University of Braunschweig before teaching maths, chemistry and Computing Science from 2001 to 2008 and completing her doctorate at the University of Kassel at the same time. Diethelm has been a member of the Presidential Board of the Gesellschaft für Computing Science e.V. since 2017.
13.06.2019 Polytechnic Prize 2019
The Polytechnic Society Foundation announces eight nominees for this year's
Polytechnic Prize on the topic of "Dealing with diversity in STEM education"
FRANKFURT AM MAIN, 12 JUNE 2019. The application phase for the Polytechnic Prize for the Didactics of Mathematics,
Computing Science, Natural Sciences and Technology (STEM), which is endowed with a total of
70,000 euros, has ended. Numerous
outstanding teaching concepts have been submitted to the Polytechnische Gesellschaft foundation
Frankfurt am Main. After two selection rounds, the selection committee nominated eight candidates
from all the applications received
who have developed particularly good, innovative teaching concepts for this year's
focus topic "Dealing with diversity in STEM education" and have already successfully trialled
them. The spectrum covers almost all STEM subjects and
school levels, with half of the submitted concepts focussing on the subject of mathematics
Wolfgang Heilmann Prize: Dr Christian Bauer's analysis "Digital Maturity" was honoured
Dr Christian Alexander Bauer (centre) and Professor Dr Ira Diethelm (2nd from right) received an award together with Dr Richard Rahlfs at the Wolfgang Heilmann Prize ceremony. (Photo KMK / BEHRENDT&RAUSCH)
At the Learntec trade fair in Karlsruhe, the Integrata Foundation presented this year's Wolfgang Heilmann Award - the prize was awarded to Dr Christian Alexander Bauer from the Würzburg-Schweinfurt University of Applied Sciences for his analysis "Digital Maturity"; he received the award together with Professor Dr Ira Diethelm and Dr Richard Rahlfs. The Integrata Foundation for the Humane Use of Information Technology is a non-profit foundation that supports research projects, educational institutions and realisation projects that contribute to the humane use of information technology.(www.fhws.de/service/news-presse/pressemeldungen/)
7 February 2017
Susanne Boll-WeStermann and Ira Diethelm appointed to the Digital Council of Lower Saxony
State government sets up expert committee on digital change
Oldenburg. Prof Dr Susanne Boll-Westermann, Professor of Media Informatics and Multimedia Systems, and Prof Dr Ira Diethelm, Professor of Didactics of Computing Science, have been appointed to the Digital Council of Lower Saxony. The 20-member body is made up of representatives from science, politics, business, associations, media, education, ethics, labour and consumer protection. The inaugural meeting of the newly established council will take place during the CeBIT computer trade fair in Hanover on 20 March. In future, it will meet three times a year and advise the state government of Lower Saxony on issues relating to digital change, such as broadband expansion, automated driving and digital learning.
Source: University press service
"The path of data through the internet"
Generate your own teaching material - customised for your school![Inspiring enthusiasm for Computing Science]