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.
Kahoot!
Repeat teaching content in a playful way, test knowledge or let your students create a quiz themselves. With Kahoot! you have many opportunities to activate your students and promote the learning process.
ILU – ILIAS Learning Environment
ILU stands for ILIAS learning environment and is the central learning management system of TH Cologne. ILU offers numerous functions for learning support and interactive learning, communication, and collaboration. Faculty or institution-internal digital teaching expert teams (DLE teams) advise and support the technical and didactic development of digital teaching in ILU and form the interface…
Accessible teaching
Accessibility improves your teaching! This fact is often forgotten because the focus is on the perceived extra work involved. Besides, there don’t seem to be any disabled students on your course anyway – so it can’t be that important. In fact, it is easier than you might think to create an accessible environment. You can…
Zoom
Zoom has a wide range of features for interactive events in digital and hybrid teaching. We will show you how to use the video conferencing tool to plan and implement digital events, broadcast presentations, share content and work collaboratively online.
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TH Köln offers its university members their own access to various large language models: THKI Chat. Lecturers, academic staff, students and administrative staff can use this didactic interface to submit inquiries to various AI models – free of charge and in compliance with data protection regulations.
In the final phase of a COIL project, students come together, present, and reflect on their results. They look back on their academic insights as well as the experience of international collaboration, making their joint achievements visible. At the same time, instructors evaluate the project academically, organizationally, and interculturally. This phase is essential for ensuring…
This is the stage where planning turns into practice: students from both institutions finally meet, start working together, and build their joint learning experience. The focus lies on launching the collaboration smoothly, creating trust, and guiding students through meaningful international teamwork.
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COIL: Internationalize Your Teaching Through Virtual Collaboration
Looking to bring global perspectives into your lectures—without organizing a study abroad program? COIL (Collaborative Online International Learning) is a flexible and low-barrier way to internationalize your teaching. By teaming up with an international partner, you guide students through shared, virtual projects that build intercultural skills, digital fluency, and subject knowledge. This page introduces a…
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THEORIEN UND METHODEN
COIL: Internationalize Your Teaching Through Virtual Collaboration
Looking to bring global perspectives into your lectures—without organizing a study abroad program? COIL (Collaborative Online International Learning) is a flexible and low-barrier way to internationalize your teaching. By teaming up with an international partner, you guide students through shared, virtual projects that build intercultural skills, digital fluency, and subject knowledge. This page introduces a…
