Teaching and learning with digital media - qualification and information programmes in university didactics for teaching staff

Director: Dr. Simone Schipper

Team and contact
Email  
Web https://uol.de/lehre/hochschuldidaktik/ 
Instagram @lehre_uol 

Inspiration in a nutshell - lunch meetings, tutor qualification and other short formats

The monthly lunchtime meetings focus on didactic aspects of teaching and suitable digital tools. In a compact one-hour format, there are inspirational inputs and the opportunity to contribute and discuss your own questions and experiences.

Selection: Lunch meeting topics from the years 2022 and 2023

• New features in Stud.IP - in cooperation with the IT services
• Didactic scenarios with individual tools in Stud.IP: wiki, courseware, vips
• Flipped classroom
• Digitally supporting face-to-face teaching - in cooperation with SOUVER@N
• Gender and diversity-conscious design of digital teaching
• Low-barrier design of digital teaching
• Research-based learning with digital media
• Digital examination administration - in cooperation with the examination office
• Generative AI in teaching - in cooperation with participate@UOL and SOUVER@N
• Open Educational Resources in teaching - in cooperation with participate@UOL and twillo
• Interaction in online meetings
• Collaborative scenarios with OnlyOffice and NextCloud
• Good practice: lecturers present their concepts for digital teaching

In addition, overview events on the Stud.IP learning management system for beginners and advanced users will be organised in cooperation with the IT services.

The tutor qualification is offered by the Central Student and Career Counselling Service (ZSKB). As part of the qualification, tutors can acquire extensive skills to organise tutorials in a way that promotes learning. The courses on the didactically meaningful use of digital media in tutorials and online tutorials in the focus area ‘Media and Information Competence’ have been designed and implemented by the University Didactics department, among others, since 2021.

Collection of teaching concepts - learning from others

Teachers at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg present their teaching concepts in the collection. These are from the area of research-based learning, the teacher training programmes or from funded projects. You will also find concepts that organise teaching and learning with digital media and those that have been awarded the Teaching Prize.

Curious? https://wp.uni-oldenburg.de/lehrkonzepte/

Workshops - further develop your own teaching

In our one- to two-day training courses for lecturers, teaching and learning with digital media is partly the focus itself, and partly this aspect is included as a cross-cutting topic. In addition to teaching content, the workshops offer the opportunity to (further) develop the concept of your own course with digital media. Other important elements are the workshop character, the reflection of one's own role as a teacher and the exchange with other teachers.

Selection of topics from the years 2022 and 2023

• Teaching and learning with digital media
• Designing teaching with LEGO® Serious Play® - in cooperation with participate@UOL
• Producing podcasts made easy - creative work with Audacity - in cooperation with participate@UOL
• Understanding and applying student participation and open educational practices in teaching - in cooperation with participate@UOL
• Teaching Out Loud: Developing networking skills - in cooperation with participate@UOL

Further information 

On our website, we also provide a wide range of information on designing teaching - including in connection with digital teaching:

• Didactic scenarios with Stud.IP
• Generative artificial intelligence in teaching
• Barrier-free design of digital teaching materials

Feedback, evaluation and further development of the programme

What lecturers say about the university didactics programme:

• ‘It was a really great workshop, very insightful. I left with a lot of new insights! Many, many thanks!’
• ‘You do a really great job! The university didactics workshops are very helpful, otherwise as a lecturer you sometimes feel a bit ‘left alone’ with the conception of teaching.’

Teachers find them particularly helpful:

• ‘Getting to know new digital tools’
• ‘Systematically linking learning objectives with digital tools’
   

The university didactics programme is constantly being further developed based on feedback from the evaluations. This concerns topic requests as well as the design of the formats (e.g. online or face-to-face, time frame). Suggestions are always welcome! Customised offers can also be created on request. Please feel free to contact us!

Directory: Prof Dr Karsten Speck (former Vice President of Studying and Teaching) , Isabel Müskens (Head of the Department of Studying and Teaching)

Project duration 01.08.2021 - 31.07.2024

Project goals

• Strengthening the participation of students and lecturers in innovative, digital and hybrid teaching/learning formats
• Enabling the joint testing of contemporary teaching/learning formats and sustainable implementation in teaching/learning practice
• Shaping the university as a place of learning in the digital age that invites a diverse student and teaching staff body to jointly develop studies and teaching

Project content

• Creation of digital support programmes for students during the introductory phase of their studies
• Creation of open spaces for digital and hybrid learning and teaching (development of teaching and learning labs, creation and use of OER)
• Development of virtual spaces for the creation of virtual labs
• Support for digital and hybrid teaching for lecturers and students

Use of digital tools

• UbiSim software for VR glasses for simulations in medicine (FK VI)
• Labster for simulations of laboratory experiments in the natural sciences (open to all FKs)
• ViTeLLO - Virtual Teaching Lab based on Gather.Town (FK II)
• Multi-touch table and interactive whiteboards in the Learning Lab in the media centre, BIS, ZW4 (planned: PodCast studio)
• Canva for creating graphics, logos, marketing material

Requests for networking​

• Innovative teaching/learning methods
• Use of digital tools to improve classroom teaching
• Student participation in the development of teaching/learning designs
• Virtual rooms and development of new methods in the labs

Project management: Prof Dr Olaf Zawacki-Richter (international joint project)

Project website: https://uol.de/coer/research-projects/projects/aied
Funding organisations: Volkswagen Foundation and State of Lower Saxony

Project questions 

• What are possible scenarios for AI applications in higher education and what opportunities do they offer for teaching and learning?
• What risks, ethical and legal implications - with a particular focus on issues of fairness in relation to gender and diversity - need to be considered?
• What further training is required for university lecturers in the context of AIEd? 

Project content

• Researching global perspectives on the current and potential use of artificial intelligence applications in teaching and learning
• Development of future scenarios, which will be comparatively evaluated by university lecturers from five countries/regions (Germany, China/Japan/South Korea, USA, Spain and Turkey) and two subject areas (social sciences and humanities and STEM). 

Methods

• Online focus groups
• Web-based questionnaires

Sub-project leader: Prof Dr Maja Brückmann (joint project of eight universities in Lower Saxony)

Project website: https://hochschuledigital-niedersachsen.de/home/souvern/
Funding organisation: Foundation for Innovation in University Teaching

Project duration 2021- 2024

Project goals 

• The competent and learning goal-orientated (i.e. confident) use of digital tools by teachers and students (digital literacy)
• The professional development of high-quality digital teaching/learning concepts and content
• The sovereignty of the universities as institutions strengthened by the alliance

Project content

• Development of digital learning content for the basic qualification in German/maths and subject teaching (primary school teacher training)
• Development of a learning programme to impart digital teaching skills for eTutors
• Media-didactically orientated collection of best-practice examples of digital teaching/learning concepts

Project clusters

• Establishment of an agile network for the joint development of tools as well as support and services in digital and hybrid teaching (in short: Agile Innovation Network - Services)
• Targeted development and provision of content of digital materials in the form of OER in common areas of need (in short: shared teaching/learning materials - content/OER)
• Clarification of existing and emerging legal issues relating to digital and hybrid teaching (in short: clarification of the legal framework)
• Coordinated, secure, reliable and independent operation of basic technologies for digital and hybrid teaching (in short: IT basis)

Project management: Prof. Dr Maja Brückmann (joint project with several cooperation partners)

Project website: https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/einrichtungen/bised/lfb-labs-digital/index.xml

Project duration 2023-2025

Project goals 

• Development of student laboratories into innovative locations for teacher training (LFB) in the STEM field
• Supporting the research-based, cross-phase quality development of STEM-related initial, continuing and further teacher training institutions and their transfer efforts
• Creation of digital learning centres to train teachers in digital skills and promote student motivation for STEM subjects

Project levels

• Level 1: Conditions for success at student lab level
• Level 2: Cross-curricular conditions for success and implementation
• Level 3: Implementation conditions at system level

Project management: Prof. Dr Felicitas Macgilchrist (Digital Education Group) in cooperation with Prof. Dr Thomas Höhne (Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg)

Funding organisation: German Research Foundation

Project duration 2020-2024

Project goals 

• Answering the question of which discourses, economic theories and controversial debates are (re)produced in textbooks and in what form
• To answer the question of how the multimedia elements that are increasingly included in digital textbooks change economic knowledge
• Investigating the influence of development processes of digital textbooks, production and the discursive entanglements of actors on this mediated knowledge
• Answering the question of how the process of development and production of educational media, which are increasingly conceived ‘born digital’, has changed as a result of technological change in the publishing industry

Project content 

• Level 1: Discourse-analytical approaches to answer the first two questions
• Level 2: Conducting interviews with developers of digital textbooks to answer the last two formulated questions

Project management: Prof Dr Felicitas Macgilchrist (Department of Digital Education)
Cooperation with Prof Dr Kerstin Rabenstein (Department of School Pedagogy/ Empirical Teaching Research and School Development at the Georg-August University of Göttingen) 

Project website: https://www.gei.de/forschung/projekte/etic?sword_list%5B0%5D=etic&no_cache=1

Funding organisation: Volkswagen Foundation

Project duration 2021 - 2023

Objectives

• Starting point: inequalities existing under Corona
• How have these inequalities increased during the pandemic?
• How are actors shaping the unusual situation?

Project content

• Recording narratives from interviewees on how inequalities occurring in everyday working life during the Covid-19 pandemic were dealt with
• Conducting 65 interviews with social workers, teachers, educators and education administrators, among others

Project publications (selection)

• Dünkel, Milena (2022). Schule, Digitalität und soziale Ungleichheiten vor dem Hintergrund der COVID-19-Pandemie - Eine qualitative Untersuchung der Perspektiven (außer-)schulischer Unterstützungsangebote. Master thesis, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.​
• Kuke, Kirsten (2022). Konstruktionen von Zukunft in Interviews zu Schule während der Corona-Pandemie. Eine Grounded Theory Studie. Master thesis, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.​
• Schütte, Gesa (2022). Soziale Ungleichheiten im Lebensraum Schule während der Corona-Pandemie. Eine qualitative Interviewstudie über Reaktionen auf Verstärkung von sozialen Ungleichheiten. Master thesis, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.​

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Project management: Prof Dr Felicitas Macgilchrist (Digital Education Group)

Funding organisation: Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (https://www.edu-digitalinequality.org)

Project duration 2020 - 2024

Research questions

• How do policies and data infrastructures for digital education address inequalities?
• How do selected privileged and disadvantaged schools deal with digital technologies and thus (re-)create or eliminate inequalities?
• How are the ‘data profiles’ of schools related to (in)equality?

Project content
Using ethnographic methods as well as digital methods, the following objectives are pursued.

• Mapping global phenomena and local particularities
• Developing a contextualised understanding of technology use in disadvantaged schools
• Profiling how and by whom student data is colonised in global contexts
• Problematising simplistic representations of how technology can alleviate inequalities
• Identify mechanisms through which technology and/or data sovereignty promote equity

Project publications (selection)​

• Büchner, F., Bittner, M. & Macgilchrist, F. (2023). Imaginationen von Ungleichheit im Notfall-Distanzunterricht: Analyse eines Policydiskurses und seiner Problemrepräsentationen. MedienPädagogik, 20, 347-373. https://doi.org/10.21240/mpaed/jb20/2023.09.14.X (open access)​
• Jornitz, S. & Macgilchrist, F. (2021). Datafizierte Sichtbarkeiten: Vom Panopticon zum Panspectron in der schulischen Praxis. MedienPädagogik , 45, 98-122. https://doi.org/10.21240/mpaed/45/2021.12.21.X (open access) ​
• Macgilchrist, F. (2021). Theories of Postdigital Heterogeneity: Implications for Research on Education and Datafication. Postdigital Science and Education, 3(3), 660-667. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42438-021-00232-w (open access) ​
• Macgilchrist, F. (accepted/forthcoming). Design justice and educational technology: Designing in the fissures. In B. Williamson, J. Komljenovic & K. N. Gulson (Eds.), World Yearbook of Education 2024 (Digitalization of Education in the Era of Algorithms, Automation, and Artificial Intelligence). Routledge.

Project management: Prof Dr Till-Sebastian Idel (in cooperation with other universities)

Project website: https://www.digischukumpk.de/

Funding organisations: European Union - NextGenerationEU and BMBF

Objectives of the competence network

• Digitalisation-related and digitally supported professionalisation of teaching staff at all-day primary schools
• Development of further training programmes to promote multi-professionalism as a core element of inclusive school culture development through
• intra-, inter- and transprofessional school and teaching development focussing on inclusion and all-day education
• Focus on the country-specific implementation of the developed concepts and formats, the provision of materials via digital infrastructures and the monitoring of development processes

Communities of Practice (CoP)​

• Heterogeneity-sensitive cooperation development
  Conception of further training courses to promote multi-professionalism as a core element of inclusive school culture development at project schools; gaining insights into the success of the further training courses, their optimisation and implementation
• Social space-orientated school development
  Initiating, monitoring and analysing social space-oriented school development processes in the project schools. The focus is on the actions of school stakeholders in multi-professional teams that are integrated into internal and external networks of interaction.
• Data-based school development
  Supporting project schools in building joint capacities for data-based school development. This includes the collaborative development and use of digital tools, e.g. to establish an infrastructure for data collection.
• School culture of self-regulated learning (SRL)
  Development of SRL concepts for schools, taking into account their framework conditions in co-constructive development workshops

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Project management: Prof Dr Felicitas Macgilchrist (Digital Education Group) and Prof Dr Kerstin Rabenstein (University of Göttingen)

Project website: https://www.gei.de/forschung/projekte/lerndiwa

Funding organisation: Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture (MWK)

Project duration 2019 - 2023

Project aims

• Research into everyday ‘digital practices’ in schools
• Investigating the question of how school learning culture is changing in a digitally networked world
• Developing successful interventions that are highly relevant for policy and school development

Project content

• Interdisciplinary approach: combination of school and teaching research, media and cultural studies approaches and ethnography
• Differentiated and situational description of everyday school life as a linguistic and physical activity with objects and media
• Investigation of digital change in everyday school life with regard to digital media and the associated new routines or ambivalences

Projektpublikationen (Auswahl)​

• Macgilchrist, F., Rabenstein, K., Wagener-Böck, N. & Bock, A. (2023). 'Google_Suche‘: Suche als soziale Praxis in Unterricht und Schule. In M. Proske, K. Rabenstein, A. Moldenhauer, S. Thiersch, A. Bock, M. Herrle, M. Hoffmann, A. Langer, F. Macgilchrist, N. Wagener-Böck, & E. Wolf (Eds.), Schule und Unterricht im digitalen Wandel. Ansätze und Erträge rekonstruktiver Forschung (pp. 67-89). ​
• Rabenstein, K., Wagener-Böck, N., Macgilchrist, F. & Bock, A. (2022). Interferenzen in digitalen Praktiken der Bereitstellung von unterrichtlichen Aufgaben. Ethnographische Beobachtungen in der Pandemie. Sozialer Sinn, 297-316. https://doi.org/10.1515/sosi-2022-0016​
• Proske, M., Rabenstein, K., Moldenhauer, A., Thiersch, S., Bock, A., Herrle, M., Hoffmann, M .,Langer, A., Macgilchrist, F., Wagener-Böck, N. & Wolf, E. (Eds.). (2023). Schule und Unterricht im digitalen Wandel. Ansätze und Erträge rekonstruktiver Forschung. Klinkhardt. https://doi.org/10.25656/01:26251 ​
• Wagener-Böck, N., Macgilchrist, F., Rabenstein, K. & Bock, A. (2023). From automation to symmation: Ethnographic perspectives on what happens in front of the screen. Postdigital Science and Education, 5, 136–151. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42438-022-00350-z 

Project management: Prof Dr Felicitas Macgilchrist (Digital Education Group) in collaboration with several project partners

Project website: https://fabulous.uni-bremen.de/​

Funding organisation: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)

Project duration 2020 - 2023

Research question

How can offers for educational processes of children and young people be designed in and with FabLabs and which change processes can be observed through such cooperations?

Project goals

• In cooperation with selected schools (primary school, lower secondary level), design of educational formats that promote skills such as abstraction, modelling, algorithmic thinking, problem-solving strategies and systems thinking and take subject curricula into account
• Identification of heterogeneous competences acquired by young people outside of school and development of suitable forms of recognition for these informal competences
• Formulate principles for linking informal competences through non-school educational opportunities (but in the context of school educational goals)
• Identification of organisational conditions for successful cooperation between schools and labs and investigation of processes of change in professional roles, pedagogical relationships and didactic actions in these non-school educational settings

Project publications (selection)​

• Coers, L. & Dittbrenner, E. (2023): Grundschüler*innen in deinem FabLab. https://doi.org/10.26092/elib/2044​
• Coers, L. & Dittbrenner, E. (2023): Mit Grundschulen ins FabLab. https://doi.org/10.26092/elib/2045​
• Macgilchrist, F., Jarke, J., Allert, H. & Cerratto Pargman, T. (2023). Designing postdigital futures: Which designs? Whose futures? Postdigital Science and Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42438-022-00389-y ​
• Macgilchrist, F. (2024). Design justice and educational technology: Designing in the fissures. In B. Williamson, J. Komljenovic & K. N. Gulson (Eds.), World Yearbook of Education 2024 (Digitalization of Education in the Era of Algorithms, Automation, and Artificial Intelligence) (pp. 294-310). Routledge. ​
• Poltze, K.; Demuth, K.; Eke, S.; Moebus, A. & Macgilchrist, F. (2022): Erfahrungen des Partizipierens. Reflexionen zu partizipativen Forschungs- und Gestaltungsprozessen. Bildungsforschung 2022(2). ​1-14. https://doi.org/10.25539/bildungsforschung.v0i2.900​

Project management: Prof. Dr. Karsten Speck, Prof. Dr. Bernd Siebenhüner, Dr. Malve v. Möllendorff​

Project website: https://www.digiface.org  ​

Funded by the DAAD with funds from the Federal Foreign Office; project partners: Kehl University of Applied Sciences, Nelson Mandela University (South Africa)

Project duration 01.01.2020 - 31.12.2025​

Project goals

• The development and provision of a digital platform for the 15 DAAD-funded subject centres in Africa (approx. 40 universities in Sub-Saharan Africa)
• The improvement of digital teaching/learning conditions in the African centres of expertise
• Supporting the African centres of expertise in the development and implementation of digitally supported teaching and the promotion of digital teaching/learning skills
• Creating further training opportunities in the areas of academic work, research methods and (technology-supported) university didactics
• Promotion of interdisciplinary cooperation in the digital network of the Africa Centres of Expertise

Project content

• Development and provision of digital training modules for Master's students, doctoral candidates and academics on the DIGI-Face platform
• Training of multipliers for digital teaching/learning formats
• Regional training programmes for digital teaching and learning and Moodle management in South, West and East Africa
• Project and conference management for the Africa centres of expertise
• Publications (OER) and support for alumni work​

Use of digital toolss​

• WordPress Project Manager Pro: Centres, Members, Blogs, Publications, Projects, Alumni, Events​
• Moodle & H5P: Course Info, Grades, Course, Content ​
• Design tools: Canva & Adobe InDesign, Freepik, Articulate, Doodly, Midjourney​
• Communication: Zoom, DeepL​
• Padcaster studios​
• VMWare support, Candy ticketing system

Requests for Networking​

• Possibilities and benefits of AI-supported tools in teaching and research
• Courses on generative AI for teachers and students

Project management: Prof. Dr. Karsten Speck ​

Scientific project management: Prof. Dr. Ira Diethelm​

Project website: https://uol.de/dioll​

Funding organisation: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) as part of the ‘Teacher Training Quality Campaign’

Project duration 01.03.2020 - 31.12.2023​

Project goals​

• Sustainably strengthening the digitalisation-related skills of student teachers and school teachers.
• Strengthening the contextualised use of digital media and technologies in the classroom.
• Development, testing and implementation of a practice-oriented teaching and further training programme that promotes both the skills of student teachers and school teachers in the use of digital media and the skills required to teach digitalisation-related topics.
• Establishment of a career-biographically orientated and cross-phase coordinated offer for digital education.

Focus of Faculty I: Digitalisation in subject teaching
Development and testing of concepts for digitally supported teaching of professional skills for the use of digital-interactive materials (primary level): OER self-learning modules that are made available to students and teachers online for self-regulated learning.

Work centres that are located in Faculty I
‘Digitalisation in teacher training’ (DiLL) for the further development of teacher training courses

• Konzeption, Erprobung und Implementierung von Lehrangeboten​
• Digitalisierung und sprachsensibler Fachunterricht​
• Digitalisierung in den Naturwissenschaften​
• Digitalisierung im Sachunterricht​

Digital teacher training centre (DiFo) for the further development of further training courses for school teachers

• Development, testing and provision of blended learning formats
• Development, testing and provision of digital self-study modules
• Conception and support of school digitalisation strategies

Joint work package: Internal and external communication and networking

Project results and materials
The materials and concepts were developed by project staff or by students in DiOLL-related seminars:

• concrete teaching material for lesson planning.
• Podcasts for inspiration and information.
• self-learning modules, for their own further training
• Concepts for planning further training courses
• Glossary with various terms relating to the topic of digitalisation. Didactic suggestions and tips for lessons as well as further materials.

Link to the project results: https://uol.de/dioll/projektergebnisse

​Professorships related to digitalisation

• ‘Digital Education in Schools’ (Prof. Dr Felicitas Macgilchrist, Institute of Education)
• ‘Digital Social Science’ (Prof. Dr Marius Sältzer, Institute of Social Sciences)
• ‘Knowledge transfer and learning with new technologies’ (Prof. Dr Olaf Zawacki-Richter, Institute of Education)

Courses related to digitalisation (selection)

• Comics, podcasts, movies - media pedagogical practice with open source (lecturer: Anja Roß)
• Critical Data Literacies for Teachers (Stephanie Troff)
• Design Futuring: The future of school in a digitally networked world (Felicitas Macgilchrist)
• Diagnostics, prevention and intervention with a focus on digitalisation in schools (Lecturer: Kirsten Gronau)
• Digital education: Current topics (Felicitas Macgilchrist)
• Digital education in practice: planning, development, implementation (Prof. Dr Olaf Zawacki-Richter, Joachim Stöter)
• Digital media in schools and lessons: Podcasting! Digital learning with auditory media (Anja Roß)
• AI, education and digital culture (Felicitas Macgilchrist)
• AI in schools: practice, reflection and design (Felicitas Macgilchrist)
• Teaching and learning with explanatory videos - creative and digital (Anja Roß)
• Teaching and learning with explanatory videos - creative and digital (Anja Roß)
• AI, education and digital culture (Prof. Dr Felicitas Macgilchrist)
• Digital education: Current topics (Prof Dr Felicitas Macgilchrist)
• Media education: Research and practice (Stephanie Troff)
• Media education and digitalisation (Prof. Dr. Felicitas Macgilchrist)
• Media education and digitalisation in social work (Lecturer: Melanie Schaumburg)
• Media workshop - active and creative with digital media (Melanie Schaumburg)
• Podcasting! - Digital learning with auditory media (Anja Roß)
• Stop motion animation - audiovisual media in child and youth work (Anja Roß)

Plans for study programmes

A new Master's degree programme with the working title ‘Digital Technologies and Society’ is being planned in cooperation between the social sciences and computer science.

Computer Science degree programmes

All computer science courses have a connection to digitalisation, as computer science is at the heart of all digitalisation activities. On the one hand, it is the technological basis, and on the other, computer science is a service provider for all application areas. The degree programmes include 

• Bachelor of Computer Science
• Bachelor of Business Informatics
• 2-subject Bachelor of Computer Science
• Master of Computer Science
• Master of Science in Business Informatics
• Master of Education Computer Science
• Master Engineering of Sociotechnical Systems
• Master Digitalised Energy Systems

The degree programmes themselves use digital infrastructures and impart the knowledge and methodology for designing digitalised processes.

Included specialised courses are:

• biw330 ‘Media Education and Digitalisation’ for all teacher training students (Prof. Dr Ira Diethelm, together with FK I)

Plans for degree programmes

Planning for new degree programmes, which are usually created cross-faculty: 

• Data Science in Medicine
• Digital Technologies and Society
• Consecutive Bachelor's/Master's degree programmes on digitalisation in the natural sciences (esp. chemistry)

In addition to the standard repertoire of smaller tools (e.g. Canva, Mentimeter, oncoo etc.), the Department of Vocational and Business Education has been using and creating various digital teaching and learning formats as part of teaching and learning events for many years.

In recent semesters, the focus has been on the following two digital formats in particular.

• Digital worksheets offer learners a variety of ways to acquire knowledge. The main advantage is that it is possible to interact directly with the learning objects (e.g. graphics, tables, etc.) so that learning processes can be customised and dynamically designed. Digital worksheets can be developed using the GeoGebra tool. The worksheets developed by students can be found here:: https://www.geogebra.org/u/bwp_oldenburg​
• Educational videos are now one of the key media used in school education. As part of a seminar organised as a project, students learn how to make technically justified didactic selection and reduction decisions and how to design educational videos professionally. A selection of educational videos developed by the students can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/@fgberufs-undwirtschaftspad8407/videos

Digital Transformation: Strategies and Sustainability

Head: Prof Dr Jörn Hoppmann

Since 2020

The aim of the course is to give students an insight into the economic, social and ecological effects of digital transformation. 

About the OX-Lab

• Implementation of digital and analogue classroom experiments
• Support for research-orientated teaching and learning processes
• Integration of digital platforms (classEx, Teacheconomy, etc.)
• Subject-specific didactic development research
• Cross-phase networking of various stakeholders in teacher training
• Curricular anchoring of experiments in the curriculum

Offerings of the OX-Lab

• (Digital) instructions for experiments for lectures and economics lessons
• Courses, workshops and further training in analogue and virtual learning environments (OX-Lab x ViTeLLO)
• Competence centre for digital experiments
• Learning centre for school classes and teacher training

Further digital offerings in economic education

• ‘Digital classroom’ with tablet and videography equipment
• Platform solution (Ecedon), e.g. for the implementation of qualification measures for teachers
• Digital vignette pool for the counselling skills of students
• Didactic seminars on digital media and methods of economic education
• Current research and development projects on adaptive learning, digital practical contacts, digital skills for the use of experiments and the connection between economics, ethics and digitalisation

Project management: Prof. Dr Alexander Nicolai and Andreas Scheel (project position)

Project duration: 01.01.2023 - 31.12.2023

Project goals/contents

Testing and further development of the game-based learning approach for various teaching and learning formats (digital competition formats in which students ‘duel’ on the respective learning content and thus consolidate their knowledge in a playful way and are encouraged to network with each other. 

Project management: Prof Dr Ira Diethelm

Project duration: 01.03.2020 - 31.12.2023

Project goals/contents

Strengthening the digitalisation-related skills of student teachers and teaching staff (funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) together with the Department of Studies and Teaching, FK II - Computer Science, FK I - Sachunterricht, FK IV - German Studies and FK V - Chemistry Didactics). 

Project management: Prof Dr Ira Diethelm

Project duration: 01.04.2023 - 30.09.2025

Project goals/contents

Strengthening the digital skills of STEM teachers, especially non-subject computer science teachers from primary and lower secondary schools (together with FK II and FK I and partners in NRW)

Project management: Prof Dr Ira Diethelm

Project duration: 01.04.2023 - 30.09.2026

Project goals/contents

Strengthening the computer science skills of science teachers (together with FK II and FK I). 

Project management: Prof Dr Ira Diethelm

Project duration 01.04.2023 - 30.09.2025

Project goals/ content

ViTeLLO is part of OLELA (Oldenburg Teaching-Learning Spaces)
(https://uol.de/lernlabor-informatik)

Project management: Prof Dr Karsten Speck (former VPL) and Isabel Müskens (former Head of Department of Studying and Teaching)

Project collaborator Faculty II: Hardo Schencke

Project duration 01.08.2021 - 31.07.2024​

Project goals

• Strengthening the participation of students and lecturers in innovative, digital and hybrid teaching/learning formats
• Enabling the joint testing of contemporary teaching/learning formats and sustainable implementation in teaching/learning practice
• Shaping the university as a place of learning in the digital age that invites a diverse student and teaching staff body to jointly develop studies and teaching

Project content​

• Designing information and participation programmes on digital teaching for teaching staff and students in the faculty
• Offers for exchange and counselling on the use of digital tools for teaching
• Support in the design and implementation of hybrid courses
• Design of digital support programmes/open educational resources (OER)
• Design of rooms for the implementation of digital teaching elements

Use of digital tools

• Labster for simulations of laboratory experiments (open to all faculties)
• ViTeLLO - Virtual Teaching Lab based on Gather.Town (as part of OLELA Head: Prof Dr Ira Diethelm)
• Multi-touch table and interactive whiteboards in the Learning Lab in the Mediathek, BIS, ZW4 (planned: PodCast studio) (for all faculties)
• Canva for creating graphics, logos, marketing material

Requests for networking

• Exchange with other faculties regarding technology and digital tools
• Student participation in the development of teaching/learning designs and accompanying programmes
• Exchange on virtual teaching/learning platforms

Responsibility for content Faculty III: Prof Dr Albrecht Hausmann (Dean of Studies)
Project assistant: Vanessa Barbagiovanni Bugiacca
Student assistant: Christoph Wollesen

Project duration 01.08.2021 - 31.07.2024

Project goals

• Promoting the participation of students and teachers in the development of innovative teaching/learning formats
• Support and counselling services for teachers in the use of digital elements and technology as well as for the planning of scenarios
• Testing and integrating digital technologies into (classroom) teaching
• Creation and provision of digital support programmes for students in the introductory phase, outgoing phase and during their studies

Project content​

• Conception and realisation of the peer-to-peer series ‘LevelUP - practical workshop for students’ (in cooperation with the Learning Lab)
• ‘Journey of discovery in digital education’ course for BA students from all faculties (tandem teaching by faculty staff from all faculties)
• Conception, coordination and realisation of ‘Tooltime - practical workshop for teachers’ (in cooperation with other faculty staff and the Learning Lab)
• Creation of OER materials
• Individual counselling and support services for lecturers with regard to digitally supported and hybrid teaching
• Procurement and lending of specialised media technology

Use of digital tools

• Padlet, Muralboard, Etherpad​
• Wordpress, H5P ​
• BigBlueButton​
• Canva, Affinity, Adobe Suite​
• Actionbound​

Requests for networking

• Other projects that deal with digitalisation in teaching
• University-wide exchange on the use of VR

Head: Prof Dr Katrin Kleinschmidt-Schinke
Scientific assistance: Dr Esther Jahns

Project duration 01.08.2021 - 31.07.2024

Project goals

• Linguistic research project: Academic language anxiety as a barrier to participation
• Research questions:
  • Does academic language anxiety prevent participation?
  • Which factors favour and which reduce it?
  • What influence do digital tools have?

Project content

• Method: Focus group discussion and semi-structured guided interviews with a total of 16 UOL students
• Master's seminar on ‘Language variation and language ideologies’, format: blended-learning; overarching topic: reflection on own participation and formats that promote participation à transfer to teaching at school

Use of digital tools

• BBB (video conference, voting tool)

Requests for networking

• UOL teachers who have had (positive) experiences with formats that promote oral participation
• Students who have had experiences with language anxiety and would like to share them
• Teachers who would like to consider language anxiety and language ideologies in their teaching

Head: Prof Dr Katrin Kleinschmidt-Schinke
Scientific assistance: Sarah Meier

Project duration 01.08.2021 - 31.07.2024

Project goals:

• Dissertation project: Procedure-oriented promotion of students' academic writing skills - an intervention study (working title)
• Strengthening student participation in academic discourse through subject-integrated promotion of academic writing skills in the field of didactics of the German language

Project content

• Development of a digital teaching/learning unit in courseware to promote scientific language skills using the example of scientific introductory texts
• Testing the effectiveness of this teaching/learning unit in a quasi-experimental intervention study (module ger246)

Use of digital tools​

• Courseware​
• Etherpad​
• CloCked​

Requests for networking

• Examination of possible transferability of the funding concept to other departments

Further projects

• Language-sensitive teaching as part of the cross-faculty project ‘Digitalisation in Oldenburg Teacher Education (DiOLL)’
  Duration: 2019-2023
  Contact person: Prof. Dr Juliana Goschler
• Digitisation-related and digitally supported professionalisation of sports, music and art teachers (DigiProSMK)
  Duration: 2023-2026
  Contact person: Prof. Dr Michaela Kaiser
• Digitality - Diversity - Producing: Practices of popular music in schools and further education (DiDiPro)
  Duration: 2023-2026
  Contact person: Prof. Dr Mario Dunkel

Resources of past projects

• Virtual scavenger hunt with Actionbound ‘Uni Action - Oldenburg's institutions of knowledge production’
  Context of origin: Innovation Plus Uni Action project
  Duration: 2019-2020
  Project management: Prof Dr Karen Ellwanger
• Learning platform with online courses on academic work, researching and learning about things and ethno/netnography
  Context of origin: Project Quality Plus - Digital Literacy at the Material Culture Centre
  Duration: 2019-2022
  Project management: Prof Dr Karen Ellwanger

Experimental procedures and working methods - digital, repetitive
Head: Dr. Alexander Weiz (Institute of Chemistry)

Project duration 01.08.2023 - 31.07.2024

Project goals

• Pilot project for embedding augmented reality in laboratory teaching
• Supporting the learning of basic laboratory procedures through short video sequences
• Creation of conditions for independent thinking through/further practising of procedures before and after laboratory time through the possibility of comparison independent of time and place

Project content​

• Creation of individual short video sequences (up to 60 seconds) on selected laboratory procedures that are difficult to describe verbally
• Precise anchoring of the video sequences via QR code in the script of the course ‘Introduction to laboratory practice’
• Differentiation from Labster: no video game character like Labster, but very short sequences tailored to the course

Use of digital tools​

• Digital video recording and editing equipment (already available since 2020)

Head: PD Dr Michael Krüger (Institute of Physics))

Project duration 01.08.2023 - 31.07.2024

Project goals

• Pilot project for the introduction of digital lab books in practical courses
• Enabling students to keep a digital lab book
• Creation of a setting for the practical introduction of students to data management and FAIR principles

Project content

• Selection, optimisation and, if necessary, modification of one or more suitable experiments
• Connection of an open source lab book to StudIP
  (Note: The aim is not to enable students to use a specific tool, but to familiarise them with the key aspects of its use)
• Accompaniment of the first realisation of the experiment thus trained

Use of digital tools​

• studIP
• Selection of the open source lab book system is currently underway

Head: Anja Wübben (Institute of Biology and Environmental Sciences)

Project duration 01.08.2023 - 31.07.2024

Project aims

• Creation of an accompanying teaching programme for finding, using and creating OER Project content

Project content

• Creation of a subject-specific module -- linked to ‘Teaching and learning in the student laboratory’ -- for handling and creating OER
• Interdisciplinary module on the legally compliant use and provision of OER

Head: Sven Logemann, Tabea Liedtke (pilot project of the mathematics student council)

Project duration 01.08.2023 - 30.11.2023

Project goals

• Integration of a well-founded introduction to the efficient use of existing digital tools of the UOL into the O-week

Project content

• Conceptual expansion of the ‘timetable help’ learning unit of the O-week with new content
• Creation of materials to introduce first-year students to the possibilities of StudIP (suitable for the requirements of the first year of study) 

Project management: Dr. Nader El-Sourani, Dr. Susanne Quintes, ​
René Klarmann

Project duration 01.08.2023 - 31.07.2024

Project goals

• Competence-oriented training through virtual reality before students enter the healthcare system
• Evaluation of subjective and objective knowledge gain through a quantitative analysis
• Strengthening the participation of students and teachers in innovative, digital and hybrid teaching/learning formats
• Designing the university as a place of learning in the digital age that invites a diverse student and teaching staff to jointly develop studies and teaching

Project content

• Digitalisation of surgical teaching through the integration of virtual reality
• Virtual reality is chosen as the last teaching unit before entering the healthcare system
• Applying the knowledge and skills learnt in a simulated emergency room
• Support for digital and hybrid teaching for lecturers and students

Use of digital tools​

• StepVR​

Requests for networking

• Innovative teaching/learning methods
• Use of digital tools to improve classroom teaching
• Student participation in the development of teaching/learning designs
• Virtual rooms and development of new methods in the labs

Project management: Thomas Schmidt (Medical Didactics Faculty VI).
Dr Susanne Quintes (participate@UOL Faculty VI)

Project duration since March 2022

Project goals

• Imparting knowledge on the topic of didactics with specific examples from medical didactics
• Creating low-barrier access to information, independent of time and place
• Arouse interest in didactic topics among teachers and students

Project content

• Preparation of specialised didactic knowledge and the latest specialist literature from the field of medical didactics
• Listening to teachers and students on the topic of didactics and actively participating in the podcast
• Establishing podcasts as a possible format for teaching and conveying information

Use of digital tools​

• Rode podcast microphone (financed by participate@UOL)
• Podcast Studio of the GIZ of the University of Oldenburg
• Audacity software for recording and editing
• Distribution of the podcast via the Medical Didactics website and platforms such as Spotify, Apple Podcasts, etc. (hosted on Acast)

Requests for networking

• Exchange with the hosts of other podcasts at the University of Oldenburg
• Participation and topic requests from lecturers and students
• Networking with lecturers and students who produce their own podcasts and would like to use them in a teaching/learning context

Project management: Prof Dr Dirk Weyhe, Dr Verena Uslar

Project duration 01.02.2021 - 31.01.2024

Project goals

• Testing the integration of virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR) in medical education and training
• Recording person-specific characteristics that could influence learning success when using VR and AR

Project content​

• Testing of a VR and an AR tool for medical education and training as part of three studies
• Results:
  • Increase in learning success when using VR
  • Integration of VR and AR in medical education and training makes a lot of sense
  • Motivation to learn can be significantly increased
• Next step: Search for possibilities and ways to utilise these didactic tools in regular teaching.

Use of digital tools

• VSI Holomedicine for the Hololens, apoQlar GmbH, Hamburg
• Proprietary VR anatomy atlas, developed in collaboration with Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality Lab, University of Bremen

Requests for networking:

• Innovative teaching/learning methods
• Use of digital tools to improve classroom teaching
• Student participation in the development of teaching/learning designs
• Virtual rooms and development of new methods in the labs

Project management: Prof Dr Karsten Speck (former VPL), Isabel Müskens (Department of Studying and Teaching)

Project assistant Faculty VI: Dr Susanne Quintes

Project duration 01.08.2021 - 31.07.2024

Project goals

• Participation of students and lecturers in the development of innovative teaching/learning formats
• Information and tips on integrating digital applications into teaching and the learning process
• Piloting and testing virtual learning environments together with teachers and students

Project content

• Support for digital and hybrid teaching for teachers and students
• Design of information offerings on the topic of digital teaching for students and lecturers
• Acquisition and provision of technology for hybrid teaching and the creation of digital content and teaching materials
• Supporting teachers and students in trialling virtual learning environments in teaching
• ‘Journey of discovery in digital education’ course for BA students from all faculties (tandem teaching by faculty staff from all faculties)
• Conception, coordination and realisation of ‘Tooltime - practical workshop for teachers’ (in cooperation with other faculty staff and the Learning Lab)

Use of digital tools

• UbiSim and Step.VR software for VR glasses for simulations in nursing and human medicine
• Labster for simulations of laboratory experiments in the natural sciences (open to all faculties)
• Audacity, Canva and H5P for the creation of digital content
• Mentimeter, Slido, Padlet and Flinga, among others, as applications for teaching

Requests for networking

• Exchange with other faculties regarding technology and digital tools
• Establishment of a university-wide virtual reality exchange platform
• Student participation in the development of teaching/learning designs