Group work with digital tools
How can group work be implemented effectively? As a teacher, you can use digital tools to encourage student exchange and help students achieve productive results.
Microsoft Teams
As in a virtual workspace, many teaching and learning settings can be mapped and (agile) projects managed in Microsoft Teams. Get an overview of Teams’ communication and collaboration options.
Audacity
Podcasts (digital audio files) are becoming increasingly popular, and they can also be integrated effectively into teaching. Their narrative elements convey knowledge in a memorable and varied way. In addition, students have the opportunity to learn at their own pace by fast-forwarding and rewinding sequences.
Broadcast Course as a Live Stream
Participating in courses online, regardless of location, has long been possible and often makes sense—for example, for students who are temporarily or permanently unable to participate physically due to personal restrictions. In addition, if there is limited space at the university, it is easier if courses that are suitable are broadcast (in full or as…
Camtasia
Camtasia Studio offers numerous ways and options to record, edit and publish instructional videos – without additional software. We will show you the most important functions for designing your videos.
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The TIB AV-Portal is a platform for scientific videos and open-access audiovisual learning and teaching materials. The portal offers the possibility of making videos easily accessible and quotable. Based on Creative Commons licensing, many materials on TIB AV can be downloaded and reused.
Twillo is the Lower Saxony platform for Open Education Resources in university teaching, on which a cross-state collaboration with ORCA.nrw is now taking place. Here, you will find infrastructure and support for free educational materials from various topics and subject areas. Teachers can find suitable materials on twillo or publish their own media.
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THEORIES AND METHODS
Practicing writing skills with the One-Minute-Paper
Gaining the ability to write scientific texts, students need to acquire academic expertise: What are the requirements for academic writing? How do I quote correctly? Et cetera. The students’ writing success also depends largely on their practical knowledge, that is, the gathered experiences and the resulting routines. From the perspective of writing didactics, it is,…
TOOLS
frag.jetzt
In the question rooms of frag.jetzt, students can ask questions anonymously without registering and only with a code. We explain how to set up and use the browser-based tool to break down inhibitions and answer questions for everyone.
Teaching strategy
Gender diversity in university teaching
As a teacher, how can I create a teaching and learning space where everyone feels comfortable? There is certainly no universal solution to this problem. However, engaging with diverse identities and one’s own stereotypes can dismantle discriminatory structures and unconscious preconceptions. In the following article, you will learn how to ensure gender-sensitive teaching.
THEORIEN UND METHODEN
How competence orientation succeeds in teaching
Competence-oriented teaching focuses the entire learning process on guiding students in the actual application of their knowledge. Learning Outcomes are defined in such a way that, in addition to mere subject knowledge (knowing what), its application, further development, and use (knowing how) are also integrated into the teaching. From the beginning, fair and valid assessment…
TOOLS
Miro
On the virtual whiteboard Miro, you can work interactively and synchronously with your students, regardless of location. We will show you how to use the tool to combine media, collect ideas together and develop concepts.
Lehrstrategie
Diversity-Conscious Teaching
Diversity and its appreciation are an essential part of the university’s self-image and thus also of the teaching and learning culture at the TH Köln. We accompany you on your way to a more diversity-conscious teaching and working environment.