Online courses, learning videos and virtual labs: Digital learning formats for students can effectively enrich university teaching. The state of NRW is therefore funding the further expansion of e-learning offerings at North Rhine-Westphalian universities with a total of around seven million euros. As part of the "OERContent.nrw" (Open Educational Resources) programme, the Ministry of Culture and Science (MKW) is supporting twelve new concepts together with the Digital University NRW (DH.NRW). Paderborn University was successful with three projects. It is the lead institution in one project and a consortium partner in two. The projects will start in September. The project duration is two years.
Online courses for student teachers
In order to support student teachers in language teaching in the subjects of biology, art and history, a team led by Paderborn University is creating accessible online courses. An essential component are video vignettes that show different situations of language teaching and are provided with processing impulses as well as a didactic framework. The courses are designed for use in the module "German for Migrant Pupils", which is compulsory for all student teachers in NRW. The materials are to be used both by students as a self-learning offer and by teachers to support face-to-face, blended and online teaching and can be integrated into existing courses.
The "ViviPro" project is led by Prof. Dr. Constanze Niederhaus, Dr. Mareike Müller and Dr. Matthias Prikoszovits, all from the Department of German as a Second Language/German as a Foreign Language and Multilingualism at Paderborn University.
Experience technical mechanics in a playful way
The "DTM" (Digital Technical Mechanics) project offers a new concept for basic education in mechanics, which is firmly anchored in the degree programmes in civil engineering and mechanical engineering, among others. The aim is to compensate for the different levels of knowledge of the students by means of didactically sophisticated concepts. The modular concept makes it possible to combine different learning objectives and desired competences for different target groups at both universities and universities of applied sciences in a common framework. On the one hand, after defining their own learning objectives, teachers can make use of the pool of jointly developed materials. On the other hand, the gamification-based components, i.e. playful elements, are intended to increase the motivation of all types of learners to deal with the learning content independently.
The project is led by the TU Dortmund University. From Paderborn University, Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Rolf Mahnken and Dr.-Ing. Ismail Caylak, both from the Chair of Engineering Mechanics, are involved.
Get it digital - Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering
The aim of the "GET it digital" project is to provide digital teaching and learning materials for the fundamentals of electrical engineering. Classical lectures are to be optimally supplemented by interactive learning materials. The learning environment with Open Educational Resources (OER) should enable independent, individual learning as well as offer guidance and orientation. Through this supplement, students benefit from playful and didactically prepared materials that enable them to learn at their own pace, at any time and at any place.
Under the direction of the University of Wuppertal, researchers from Paderborn University (Prof. Dr. Katrin Temmen, Department of Teaching Technology), the University of Applied Sciences Aachen, the University of Applied Sciences South Westphalia, the Ruhr West University of Applied Sciences and the University of Applied Sciences Dortmund are working together in a network.
About OERContent.nrw
OERContent.nrw is the largest nationwide funding line for open educational resources. After completion of the respective projects, the digital contents are made available on the state portal for studies and teaching ORCA.nrw (Open Resources Campus NRW). In this way, teachers can exchange the freely accessible educational resources with each other and students can use them, for example, for self-study.
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