ExDiMed

In our project ExDiMed (Experimentierraum Digitale Medienkompetenz) we are experimenting with blended learning formats to teach students of humanities and social sciences digital competencies in dealing with media and data.

Programming Courses

Our focus lies on a target-specific programming course in Python, which imparts both – fundamental knowledge and application-specific know-how. In interactive Jupyter Lab modules students are enabled to collect and explore their own data (web scraping), preprocess this data, analyze it according to specific questions, and visualize it. In addition to interdisciplinary programming skills, competencies for addressing discipline-specific use cases (e.g., from linguistics) are also taught.

Mini-Hackathons

The programming courses culminate at the end of the semester with a joint hackathon, in which students solidify their acquired competencies and collaboratively work on a specific programming problem.

Self-learning Materials

In addition to the teaching notebooks in the programming courses, we offer all our materials as Open Educational Resources for self-learning and to deepen programming skills. This includes a module for introduction to Git and GitHub, a notebook for training a custom language model, as well as for reprogramming a text generator.

Materials on GitHub

All learning materials are provided as open source via GitHub and are continuously expanded upon.

Integration into Digital Humanities studies

Our long-term goal is to establish the developed formats in the Digital Humanities Master's program.

Publications

• Frommherz Y & Langenhorst J: Digitale Kompetenzen für Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaftler:innen. Vorzüge eines Blended Learning-Formats für die Vermittlung von Programmierkenntnissen. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25369/ll.v2i1.37   

Team

Prof. Dr. Simon Meier-Vieracker (Chair of Applied Linguistics, Project Leader)
Yannick Frommherz (Project Assistant)
Anne Josephine Matz (Student Project Assistant)