Implementation

Here you’ll discover a wide range of options for shaping your teaching. We’ll introduce various methods and useful tools that you can use to actively guide and support teaching and learning processes. You’ll gain insights into how to effectively incorporate different media, formats, and technologies into your teaching.

Media production Podcast

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.

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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…

Media production Video

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.

Collaboration International

Carrying Out Your COIL Project

Once your course and institutional partner are confirmed, it’s time to co-develop your COIL project. In this phase, you and your partner will shape the course structure, activities, and timeline: What content will you cover? What kind of student collaboration is appropriate? And how can the courses at both institutions be meaningfully aligned? The goal…

The Media Office's green-screen studio at the Deutz location, equipped with a camera and microphones

Digital Lesson Planning Video

Create Educational Videos (or have them created for you)

Moving images, if put together well, can often be timeless. Die Sendung mit der Maus (The Show with the Mouse) or Löwenzahn (Dandelion) have shown that videos also work very well when teaching skills. In this guide you will find out which possibilities you have for your own educational/instructional videos and why you—in part—already have…

Student Classmate Friends Understanding Study Concept

Lesson Planning Projects

Effective collaboration with project-based learning

Project-based learning is more than just teamwork. Using this university teaching method, students can learn from the diversity of their group members and, at the same time, contribute their skills and ideas.

Blended Learning Education Approach. Teachers and Students. Online and Place Based Teaching and Learning. Vector Illustration.

Activate Hybrid Teaching Lesson Planning

Flipped Classroom

Teaching basic knowledge and still working intensively with students? Flipped Classroom makes it possible. Students work through material individually and independently at home so that you, as the teacher, can use the classroom time for repetition, practice, and application of acquired knowledge.

Screenshot. View of two questions that were asked anonymously through the app.

Feedback

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.

Software

Gather.town

Gather.town allows you to create a personalized digital space for virtual encounters. The 2D video game design can be used to create offices, conference rooms, or classrooms where people can learn and work together. We will give you an insight into the co-working space.

Photo: Planning notes are lying on a table. Various hands are interacting with the notes. The analog scene is augmented by views of digital applications for planning group work. Screenshots of these applications appear above the table.

Activate Collaboration Digital

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.

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Activate Media production

H5P

Make your online teaching more interactive and varied with H5P. Use playful elements (content types), such as Memory or interactive display models—employing a timeline or image juxtaposition—to support your students in the digital self-learning process.

Photo. Man hands writing in the diary, coffee mug and laptop on wooden table

Activate Writing

How to Prompt Writing with the Quick Exposé

Some prepare their texts meticulously before they even write the first word. Others simply start writing and develop their thoughts as they write. In this article, we will explain how your students can find a balance between these approaches by introducing them to the benefits of an exposé.