Teaching room equipment
The strategic objectives for room facilities at TU Dresden include the provision of diverse learning and teaching environments, both physical and digital. The aim is to create flexible, sustainable spaces that meet the needs of students and teaching staff. This includes easy access to the university network, use of current technologies, flexible room design for different teaching and learning scenarios, as well as the promotion of collaboration and communication. Atmospherically appealing rooms with experimental variations should make learning and teaching attractive, both on site and virtually. Self-organization, independence of time and place and individual learning paths play a central role. Maker spaces and learning labs serve the further development of room design for high-quality learning processes, while sufficient rooms are available for students on campus. Overall, this increases the attractiveness of the university as a place of learning, both on site and virtually, and contributes to a high level of identification and willingness to participate on the part of students and teaching staff.
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What do we want?
TU Dresden recognizes the design of spaces as places of learning and teaching, both didactically and technically, as a strategic element in spatial planning. The physical teaching and learning spaces at TU Dresden are equipped in such a way that they enable collaboration and co-creation of knowledge. In this way, they add value and promote identification with the institution. They increase their "added value of presence" through profound learning experiences. The rooms are open, multifunctional and can be designed in a variety of ways, inviting people to linger and awakening a desire to learn. All learning and teaching spaces at TU Dresden enable interactive and hybrid teaching with the latest technology and room equipment required at the time of implementation and beyond. Both plug-and-play and "bring your own device" (BYOD) are supported with appropriate equipment. The use of the technology is explained in searchable, actively maintained documentation.
Where do we want to go?
From room equipment to room design
TU Dresden provides flexible and sustainable learning and teaching spaces that can be used both analog and digitally. Mobile furniture and flexible room concepts enable a wide range of teaching and learning scenarios, from group work to individual learning, and are tailored to the needs of users.
Both teachers and students have stable access to the university network at all times, enabling them to implement collaborative and interactive formats with real-time multimedia transmission. Digital and physical rooms can be booked centrally, which facilitates spontaneous work and learning meetings. The rooms are equipped with modern technology, suitable adapters, mobile multimedia systems, and creative materials such as smartboards and presentation aids. In addition, comfortable seating areas create informal learning settings that also enable digital participation for remote learners. Experimental room concepts and virtual learning locations complement the offering and promote self-organized learning that is flexible in terms of location and time. Teachers increasingly see themselves as learning facilitators who support individual learning paths.
Maker spaces and learning labs offer creative and interactive places for experimentation and innovation. In addition, there are sufficient learning rooms available on campus for individual and collaborative learning, creating optimal conditions for independent study.
How do we achieve this?
- Systematic recording of the technical, organizational and financial requirements
- Commitment to providing the required resources - Provision of the necessary hardware and software infrastructure
- Systematic analysis of all existing equipment in the teaching/learning rooms
- Care, maintenance and modernization of equipment (incl. hardware and software) is prioritized
- Roadmap for implementing the respective subtasks, including defining responsibilities and deadlines
- Training options for learners and teachers to transfer the opportunities created into use.
- Establish and further develop support structures
- Revive the Campus Navigator project and expand it to include the room equipment segment (as an information system/learning room overview)
- Create different interaction concepts taking into account the respective room concept and use the interfaces between digital and physical learning environments