Digital teaching hand in hand (DLH)

E-Scouts are student assistants who are trained in media didactics and technology during a seminar and subsequently work to support digital teaching at various Chairs.

E-Scout training is often the first step: The “Digital Media in University Teaching – Training as an E-Scout” seminar runs for one semester. It can be taken in either the winter or the summer semester. The majority of the seminar is completed online in an independent learning course in OPAL, which features texts, videos and tests to facilitate your learning. You then discuss the content in groups as part of online sessions held at regular intervals.

The seminar is part of the Studium Generale and can be credited towards various degree programs with 1–2 ECTS. ECTS are earned by submitting a seminar paper.

After successfully completing the “Digital Media in University Teaching – Training as an E-Scout” seminar, students are employed as either student assistants or research assistants in the DLH project.

The E-Scouts will then be assigned to teams with teaching staff from various disciplines and with varying needs for an initial period of five months.

Whether the aim is to implement flipped classrooms or online tests, use video or audio formats or to learn about the legal aspects of e-learning, E-Scouts are the points of contact during collaboration to help teaching staff develop, implement and execute target group-oriented digital content.

E-Scouts usually work between 5 and 10 hours per week.

The “Digital Media in University Teaching – Training as an E-Scout” seminar and work as an E-Scout is primarily geared towards:

• Students of all Bachelor’s or Diplom degree programs in their third semester or above and all Master’s degree program students.
• Students with a high degree of interest in the foundations of media-didactics and digital tools for learning and teaching.

 If you are interested or have questions about the seminar, please contact: .

You can register for E-Scout training via our OPAL course: Digitale Medien in der Hochschullehre - Ausbildung zum E-Scout (Digital Media in University Teaching – Training as an E-Scout).

If you have questions about registration and course content, you can reach us via email at: .

The opportunity to collaborate with E-Scouts is available to all teaching staff at TU Dresden and is particularly geared towards teaching staff with large STEM courses.

If you are interested in having an e-scout assist you with a course, feel free to contact us to set up a preliminary meeting at and we can discuss if and how support from an E-Scout could be useful to you.