The "Prize for Outstanding Digital Teaching in Saxon Teacher Education" was awarded for the second time. Tina Czaja and Dr. Frank Beier from the ZLSB convinced the five-member jury with their educational escape room and sensationally achieved 1st place. Yesterday, they were honored at a festive awards ceremony in Leipzig, where the first-place winners received prize money of 1,000 euros. The teaching award is a measure in the joint project "PraxisdigitaliS - Praxis digital gestalten in Sachsen", which again this year motivated numerous applications from all over Saxony. 

The teaching award honors the contribution of university didactics to anchoring digitality in teacher training and supports digital cultural change in universities and schools. The jury reviewed the submissions and selected the three best concepts.

The seminar "Escape from your classroom! Thinking inclusion and digitalization together." by Tina Czaja and Dr. Frank Beier was awarded 1st place. Students step out of their role as recipients and develop a stimulating learning environment themselves, specifically an educational escape room on the topic of migration and flight. The jury was impressed by the combination of inclusion and digitization, with the integration of the Open Educational Resources concept and the gamification approach being particularly positively highlighted. Another appealing aspect was that the Escape Room has a cumulative character, as new products from students can always be incorporated and further developed.

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Second place went to Anselm Vollprecht, research assistant at Faculty II: Department of Music Teaching at the Carl Maria von Weber University of Music Dresden, with his newly developed course "Developing and testing utopias of online music making". In this course, participants learn through practical exercises how to use digital tools to enable collaborative online music making and develop new forms of artistic collaboration.

Dr. Sebastian M. Herrmann, a research assistant at the Institute for American Studies at the University of Leipzig, was awarded 3rd place for the seminar "Nation and Imagination". He implemented a digital seminar reader with a hypertext structure that allows students to build a mental map while reading.

The ZLSB and the PraxisdigitaliS team would like to congratulate all award winners.

The "Award for Outstanding Digital Teaching in Saxon Teacher:ing Education" is intended to create best-practice examples of particularly successful and innovative digital teaching that can be implemented in university didactics in the long term and thus improve quality standards. Outstanding digital teaching serves as a role model for student teachers, who not only develop a positive attitude towards digital tools in the classroom as a result, but also transfer this knowledge to schools. All seminars were conducted in the summer semester 2022 and winter semester 2022/23.

PraxisdigitaliS is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research as part of the joint quality initiative for teacher training by the federal and state governments.