DIGITAL LEARNING AND TEACHING FUND
The Digital Learning and Teaching Fund, formerly known as the multimedia fund, is an instrument for e-learning development, which pursues long-term improvement of teaching quality at TU Dresden.

Awarding of the excellence prize as part of the multimedia fund at E-Teaching Day 2015
Since 2006, TU Dresden has provided centralized financial support for digital learning and teaching methods. The goal is to integrate more multimedia components in order to shape modern teaching and learning. The financial resources from the Digital Learning and Teaching Fund are designated for ensuring the continued support and development of e-learning at our university, perpetuating the success of our previous endeavors. The Fund also includes incentives for both newcomers and long-time authors and users.
The Digital Learning and Teaching Fund pursues the following primary targets in quality assurance and longevity:
- improving teaching with regard to capacity issues in large-scale lectures;
- increasing the success quota of individual degree programs;
- facilitating the transition from a Bachelor’s to a Master’s degree program.
- Information on the guidelines and funding regulations for financial support of e-learning projects (in German)
PLEASE NOTE: Following the reorganization of the Media Center, the Center for Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching (ZiLL) is now responsible for managing the projects and the application process, effective immediately.
The current call for applications is online. Applications must be submitted by June 15. The evaluation procedure is currently underway. The projects which have been chosen to receive funding will be announced at the end of July.
E-learning projects designed by teaching staff at TU Dresden are eligible to receive financial support for a limited funding period.
Since the 2019/2020 funding period, the Center for Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching (ZiLL) has been responsible for the following tasks:
- Preparing the call for project funding applications
- Coordinating the applications and approvals
- Supervising the funded projects
- Evaluating the projects within the scope of academic support
- Connecting the projects with each other (e.g. through workshops) to ensure information exchange
Teaching staff at TU Dresden
Applying for project funding at TU Dresden
The overall e-learning strategy of TU Dresden and the e-learning strategies of the individual faculties provide the basis for decisions concerning the financing of e-learning projects from the Digital Teaching and Learning Fund. These strategies are coordinated by the E-Learning Officers of the faculties and departments.
Applications for funding must be submitted via the E-Learning-Officers of the Faculties.
The following projects were awarded financing from the 2017/2018 Multimedia Fund:
Cohort 1
- Instructional videos on independent preparation for hydrochemical laboratory classes (AquaVid) – Dr.-Ing. Andreas Albers (€4,000)
- Info-Scouts multimedia – Dr. Sabine Al-Diban (€7,000)
- ARS@INF – Dr. Iris Braun (€9,900)
- Adaptive, learning objective-oriented promotion and mobilization of students (Adaptive, lernzielorientierte Förderung und Aktivierung Studierender – ALFA) – Dr.-Ing. Andreas Franze (€8,508)
- Web*forLern – online inquiry-based learning – Prof. Bärbel Fürstenau (€10,309)
- Introduction of new e-learning methods in teaching and learning processes in the Master of Science degree program Tropical Forestry – Prof. Gerald Kapp (€15,138)
- MOOCs on the foundations of political system analysis – Prof. Werner J. Patzelt (€8,200)
- Tablet experiments for students enrolled in teacher training degrees with a concentration in physics and those who have decided to switch degree programs to strengthen media competence – Prof. Gesche Pospiech (€2,100)
- Design, preparation and support of a multi-functional, scalable learning aid for practical training in the Railway Operation Laboratory – Dr.-Ing. Eric J. Schöne (€9,559)
- Self-assessment – measures for facilitating the beginning of a degree program in German Studies at TU Dresden – Prof. Dorothee Wieser (€12,500)
Cohort 2
- Video documentation of the physics preparatory course and upload of the content to OPAL for prospective and new students – Dr. Irena Doicescu (€2,665)
- Online teaching model for wastewater treatment (webLAB) – Dr. Thomas Petzoldt (€11,400)
- Autotainment stations at the Vehicle Test Center – e-learning at the test stand – Prof. Günther Prokop (€27,442)
- E-learning module on the methods of psychology – content-related and media-didactic development on the topic of mathematic modeling of cognitive processes – Jun.-Prof. Stefan Scherbaum (€13,997)
- The interactive flat screen – a free practice station for students enrolled in teacher training degree programs – Harmut Simmert (€7,500)
- Advanced teaching through lecture recordings and podcasts – Prof. Ralf Vollbrecht (€3,477)
- Digital operations research training – Konstanze Winkler (€10,400)
The following projects were awarded financing from the 2019/2020 Multimedia Fund:
Cohort 1
- Bridges build knowledge – integrated learning environments – Prof. Alexander Schill / Dr. Iris Braun (€9,888)
- Business Management for engineers via self-directed e-learning – Prof. Martin Schmauder / Dr. Grit Krause-Jüttler (€6,453)
- Tailor-made learning thanks to media-supplemented teaching in quantum theory: QuantIT – Dr. Frank Ortmann (€9,850)
- Exercise and knowledge portal for public transportation – Prof. Rainer König / Ms. Beate Lux (€14,233)
- App-supported augmented reality teaching method for visualizing mechanical components (ARTec) – Dr.-Ing. Martin Kache (€19,850)
- Digital. International. Individuell. – an international cooperative teaching program for integrating OERs in Civil Engineering distance learning – Dr.-Ing. Sabine Damme-Lugenheim (€21,165)
- DigitGPM – development of an e-learning method with video units for the course “Foundations of Human Resources Management” – Prof. Bärbel Fürstenau / Dr. Mandy Hommel (€5,230)
Cohort 2
- Interactive practicals in the Intelligent Audio Signal Processing module using Jupyter notebooks – Jun. Prof. Peter Birkholz / Dipl.-Ing. Peter Steiner (€13,794)
- Interactive and dynamic teaching materials in the hydrosciences – Dr.-Ing. Thomas Reimann (€6,770)
- Piece by Piece – Digital Design Patterns for the Internationalization of Virtual Collaboration in Higher Educational Systems to Further Virtual Mobility – Prof. Eric Schoop / Anne Jantos / Alexander Clauss (€9,289)
- Blended learning as a bridge between programming and practical training in a physics degree program – Dr. Jens Brose / Dr. Falk Röder (€7,000)
- “DigiBlock” e-learning platform for preparing and conducting Block Internship A within the Teacher Training Program for Vocational Schools – Prof. Stephan Abele / Peter Schulze (€2,834)
- Geography class goes digital – Dr. Nicole Raschke (€21,657)
Ping-pong teaching model – Dipl-Wirt.-Inf. Daniel Knöfel (€21,853)
- Graphic novel-based e-tutorials as a supplement to the course “Foundations of Bookkeeping” – Prof. Bärbel Fürstenau (€19,054.75)
- In search of the fifth dimension. Didactics of Art and Design 2021 – Dr. Christin Lübke in cooperation with Prof. Miriam Schmidt-Wetzel and Charlotte Axelsson of Zurich University of the Arts (€5,560)
- Digital diagnostics and three-dimensional visualization of orthodontic evaluation and measurement methods – Dr. med. dent. Ute Botzenhart (€8,561.50)
- Campus as a knowledge landscape – Dr.-Ing. Martin Hellbach in cooperation with Prof. Christoph Neinhuis (€12,099)
- Virtual signaling control for improving didactics in the Railway Operation Laboratory and enabling online practicals – Dipl.-Ing. Beate Lux (€24,040)
- Use of a digital assistant in student group work – Prof. Alfred Brendel (€11,346.56)
- BauingeniOER digital. Didactic preparation and long-term provision of digital teaching and learning materials as Open Educational Resources (OERs) in civil engineering – Dr.-Ing. Sabine Damme-Lugenheim in a cooperative effort for building construction with the Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Technical Hydromechanics, Institute of Geotechnical Engineering, SLUB (€17,000)
The environmental lecture series (UmweltRingVorlesung) live stream “Hörsaal von Überall aus” (“Global lecture hall”), a student project from tuuwi, TU Dresden’s Student Environmental Initiative – Prof. Stefan Gumhold (€8,000.00)
You can find an overview of the E-Learning Officers here.

Research Associate
NameAnne Jantos Dipl.-HDL.
Fonds DLL, E-Learning Coordination, virTUos
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Coordination
NameSusan Berthold (in Elternzeit)
Fonds DLL, E-Learning Coordination
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