On this website we have collected good practice examples from the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering as well as international examples for you. Feel free to get inspiration for your own training event. If you have any questions about implementing your projects, please contact us!

Do you want to make your innovative teaching concepts with digital elements better known in the field? We would be happy to supplement your good practice example.

Table of contents

1. 1. Good Practice at the TU Dresden
      1. Faculty of Architecture and Landscape
      2. Faculty of Architecture and Landscape
      3. Faculty of Civil Engineering, Institute of Building Construction
      4. Faculty of Civil Engineering, Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Technical Hydromechanics
      5. Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Institute of Cartography
      6. Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Institute of Hydrobiology and Institute of Urban and Industrial Water Management
      7. Faculty of Transportation Sciences, Chair of Railway Signaling and Transport Safety Technology
      8. Faculty of Transportation Sciences, Chair of Rail Transport, Urban and Regional Public Transport
      9. Faculty of Business and Economics, Chair of Business Information Systems, in particular Information Management
      10. E-learning gems at the TU Dresden
   2. Good Practice International
      1. TU Delft
      2. University of Helsinki

Good Practice at the TU Dresden

Faculty of Architecture and Landscape

Asynchronous multimedia teaching packages (Opal)
A multifaceted teaching concept is implemented with the asynchronous provision of multimedia packages. The teaching content is applied in the context of on-site activities, which are documented and published in a gallery. The on-site activities in the urban space also promote dialog and interaction with urban society.

Faculty of Architecture and Landscape

Collaborative work with shared data environments (CDE)
Group drives are used to provide a shared data environment that can be accessed directly and synchronously by the applications at the workstations. This enables collaborative work processes such as student project work to be realized.

Faculty of Civil Engineering, Institute of Building Construction

The OpenGLASSroom was created in cooperation with three Saxon universities. Here, informative short videos of numerous experiments in the glass construction laboratory are available as OER for integration into teaching, among other things.

Faculty of Civil Engineering, Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Technical Hydromechanics

Implementation of an interactive course in the field of coastal engineering using H5P elements via Lumi. The course with numerous self-tests and interaction possibilities is available as OER for all interested parties.

The video gives you a short tour through the course.

Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Institute of Cartography

Lecture and workshop series "Mobile Cartography" with open provision of materials, lectures in synchronous online workshops and parallel Zoom chats.

In the hybrid workshops, web-based live coding in Jupyter notebooks, documentation on GitLab, Zoom and Matrix for synchronous and asynchronous communication.

You can find the poster for the module here

Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Institute of Hydrobiology and Institute of Urban and Industrial Water Management

webLAB Wastewater treatment plant model: A web-based teaching model that demonstrates the implementation of the ASM3 model with 3 reactors for wastewater treatment (in English and German). The web app and the compute service were developed in cooperation between the Institute of Hydrobiology and the Institute of Urban and Industrial Water Management at TU Dresden and funded by the Multimedia Fund 2017/18 of TU Dresden ("webLAB" project). The app is regularly updated and the server now supports load balancing for larger numbers of users.

Faculty of Transportation Sciences, Chair of Railway Signaling and Transport Safety Technology

The OPAL course Planning of Safety Systems is used for the flipped classroom teaching concept and has a wide range of elements and varied self-tests.

Faculty of Transportation Sciences, Chair of Rail Transport, Urban and Regional Public Transport

The contents of many public transport modules are compiled in the OPAL course Public Transport Practice and Knowledge Portal. The OPAL course accompanies students during face-to-face and non-face-to-face lectures and provides videos and exercises.

Faculty of Business and Economics, Chair of Business Information Systems, in particular Information Management

Module "Collaboration in the Virtual Classroom" - a case study is worked on in mixed groups of international participants from eight partner universities. Numerous tools for synchronous and asynchronous collaboration are used for the collaborative creation of the pitch.

You can find the poster for the module here.

E-learning gems at the TU Dresden

Many e-learning contents and new didactic concepts have already been awarded in the "E-Learning Schmuckstück" competition, which recognize the special commitment of teachers to good digital teaching. Perhaps you too can find inspiration for future projects in the "Schmuckstück" gallery.

Have you also developed a "gem" that you would like to present here? Let us know about it!

Good Practice International

TU Delft

A platform with extensive free and fee-based courses, accessible to all interested parties. The teaching content is provided here partly as an international business model and partly as OER in the sense of lifelong learning, mainly in English.

OpenCourseWare

University of Helsinki

Implementation of the master's course "Automating GIS Processes" using numerous formats and tools. The online lectures were recorded and made available for reuse, openly available lecture materials are on GitHub, live coding with interactive Yupyter notebooks as well as synchronous and asynchronous Q&A sessions in Zoom Chat or on Slack.

You can find the poster for the module here

Object presentations using 360° videos
With the help of immersive 360° technology, virtual tours of buildings, urban areas and landscapes can be made possible. In this way, virtual excursions can be organized even in places that are not accessible to students or where access is restricted, increasing participation opportunities for different student groups.