E-Learning

The Faculty of Business and Economics supports the high-quality digitalisation of university teaching by providing innovative teaching-learning concepts and didactic guidance to teachers and students.

The targeted use of common e-learning elements offers great potential for multimedia enrichment of teaching, activation of learners and development of web-based learning and knowledge resources. As information and communication tools, digital media open up new ways of learning and cooperation between students, as well as in interaction with teachers.

Common e-learning elements at the faculty

E-learning elements	Potential
Scripts, slides, video tutorials etc. available online	...flexibilise, supplement and deepen the (individual) learning process.
Lecture Recordings (E-Lectures)*	...offer opportunities for independent as well as flexible repetition and consolidation of relevant subject content. Lecture streams for selected courses in the subject areas of business administration, economics and business informatics can be found here: Business Administration Economics Business Informatics
Online-Seminars (Live-Sessions)	...create conditions for a synchronous and interactive exchange between teachers and learners on complex learning content.
Learning platforms	...serve the provision of content and services primarily for the support of face-to-face teaching (OPAL) implementation of virtual teaching-learning formats of blended learning or virtual collaborative learning. In this context promote (social, collaborative) learning platforms for the active acquisition of learning content and support (informal) learning and communication processes with the help of integrated functions of a wiki, forum, chat or video conference system (e.g. via MS Teams).
E-tests and online exams	...make it possible to check existing or newly acquired knowledge as an assurance of learning success in the course or also as exam preparation (e.g. via Opal, MS Forms) as a substitute for or supplement to analogue attendance examinations at the end of the semester by formative (accompanying) partial examinations during the semester. Furthermore, online examinations can also be taken orally.

*Access requirements for the e-learning offer

The e-learning lecture streams are only accessible via the IP address range of the TU-Dresden. There are three possibilities for this:

Access on campus with your own notebook/smartphone via the WLAN network
Access from a pool PC at the university (opening hours of the computer science lab PC pools)
Access via VPN from the comfort of your own home (VPN note here)

Necessities

Furthermore, the successful use of relevant e-learning formats requires attention to essential requirements:

Advice and support: With the help of suitable advice formats (information websites, e-lectures, video tutorials, personal support and advice or experience reports from the faculty), teachers can support each other in the implementation of digital courses.
Anchoring innovation sustainably: The continuous further development of digital teaching is intended to promote a consistent and comprehensive anchoring of innovative teaching-learning formats at the faculty. The following elements will be focussed on:
Expansion of socio-technical infrastructures (e.g. increasing the range of advisory and qualification formats to strengthen media competence).
Regular exchange of experience on digital teaching-learning formats with students and lecturers (promotion of know-how transfer)
Curricular anchoring of digital formats (teaching and examinations)

Helpful links

Up-to-date information on teaching and studying under Corona conditions can be found in the TUD Corona Ticker: TUD Ticker
General information, recommendations for action as well as media-didactic and technical support offers for the presentation of courses as online formats can be found on the pages of the central e-learning service unit at the TU Dresden - ZiLL (Centre for Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching): ZiLL - ZiLL - Handlungsempfehlungen Online-Lehre
An overview of supporting tools for digital teaching can be found here: ZiLL - Tool overview
An overview of video conferencing services provided by the ZIH (Centre for Information Services and High Performance Computing) can be found here: ZIH - Video conferencing services
Online course LEHRWERKSTATT...the digital transformation
Information about the extended offer of e-media of the SLUB during COVID-19 can be found here: E-media of the SLUB
Strategy paper on the digitisation of higher education teaching: Strategy for the Digitisation of Higher Education