Self-Study Courses and Training Opportunities
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In order to professionalize teaching staff and further develop digitalization-related skills, a wide range of learning opportunities for different target groups are being created as part of our projects.
The following further education and support courses have been developed by TU Dresden's CODIP and are offered as self-study courses or as workshops or blended learning courses in cooperation with various further education providers such as the Saxon Center for Higher Education Didactics (HDS) or the Center for Further Education (ZfW). Please also refer to our guidelines and handouts.
Workshops and blended learning courses
E-teaching certificate course
This course provides specific knowledge on the didactically justified integration of digital media in classroom teaching. Based on didactic problems, participants develop their own concepts on how they can use media to support their courses.
Information on the e-teaching certificate
Web seminar series and videos
Explanatory videos
In various projects, short video clips were created to explain terms or methods. Take a look at our Videocampus channel and discover our topics in a nutshell.
to the CODIP channel in the Videocampus
Self-study courses
Media Education Without Borders
Media literacy has become a key competence in the course of advancing digitalization processes. The course, which was developed as part of the international 'Media without Borders' project, is aimed at teachers and those working in youth social work. It is offered in four languages (English, Spanish, Hungarian and German) and supports course participants in teaching key media education topics.
The lessons contained in the self-study course deal with topics such as media education, media ethics, media consumption and media law. The course provides materials for lessons or workshops on the various topics for different age groups. In addition, course participants can complete a self-assessment at the end of each lesson to check their newly acquired knowledge from the course.
Information on Media Education Without Borders
SOOPAL - Development, testing and establishment of a Saxon Open Online Course in OPAL
The project tested the implementation of a Massive Open Online Course in the OPAL learning management system and derived recommendations for the sustainable use of MOOCs in the Saxon university context. The aim of the online course was to promote the qualifications of university staff with regard to the use of e-learning in academic training and further education. The content of the online course is still available.
Information on SOOPAL - e-learning and xMooc
TASKtrain - competence-oriented qualification of university lecturers for the design and creation of e-examination tasks
The training course was developed as part of the SMWK-funded TASKtrain project, a cooperation project between the CODIP at TU Dresden, the Chair of General Education at Leipzig University and the Center for Continuing Education at TU Dresden. The aim of the training measure is the competence-oriented qualification of university lecturers in the design and creation of e-examination tasks.
Information on TASKtrain
Discover.Learn.Reflect
In the online training course, participants are given an overview of the various methodological design options for self-directed learning in the classroom.
The training is carried out in the sense of the pedagogical double-decker using numerous methods to support self-directed learning, so that participants can experience these from a learner perspective during the training and reflect on their suitability in their own lessons.
Information on Discover.Learn.Reflect
E.F.A. learning game & knowledge repository
The E.F. A. project supported the acquisition of skills by Saxon micro and small enterprises in the social services sector with regard to occupational health and safety. To this end, an adaptive digital learning game was developed as part of the project, which enables employees to carry out a comprehensive and legally compliant risk assessment. The player takes on the role of an expert in occupational safety (E.F.A.) in order to impart methodological and content-related knowledge for carrying out the risk assessment. The medium of the game and the game-based learning approach are also intended to increase learner motivation.
To the E.F.A. learning game
To the E.F.A. knowledge memory
Learning transfer methods
Between lecture hall, laptop and laboratory - enabling students to learn in the long term is the aim of using methods that support learning transfer. In two OPAL courses, these were prepared for teachers and students and demonstrated how they can be used in university teaching.
to the OPAL course for lecturers
Contact person
© Kirsten J. Lassig
Deputy head of research group
NameMs Dr. Jana Riedel
Participant in the graduate program „Education & Technology“
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