Digital Campus

Third Party Funds Group - Overall project

Start date : 01.01.2017

End date : 31.12.2021

Website: http://www.uni-regensburg.de/projekte/digitaler-campus/index.html

Overview

External partners

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Project details

Scientific Abstract

The increasing digitalisation of all areas of life also necessitates the digitalisation of educational systems. Digital media offer numerous opportunities. The “Digital Campus” project aims to promote digital literacy skills among trainee teachers in primary schools. The starting point is the idea that skills among students, in particular, can be achieved if the skills are available among their teachers. This in turn requires lecturers involved in teacher training to have these skills available.

In the course of the “IT Skills” certificate attained by students, general competencies in the professional use of media as well as media-didactic and media-related skills are fostered. Focus is placed on media-related professional knowledge, reflection, and criticism of existing media learning environments, as well as on the ability to individually shape learning environments. The UR (University of Regensburg) classes strive to ascertain whether this affects pupils.

Project partners

Inter-university cooperation

University of Regensburg:

Project leadership: Dr Michael Haider, Professorship for Primary School Pedagogy and Didactics

Prof. Dr Astrid Rank, Professorship for Primary School Pedagogy and Didactics

Alexandra Pöferlein, Professorship for Primary School Pedagogy and Didactics

Prof. Dr Petra Kirchhoff, Professor of English Teaching Methodology

Prof. Dr Anita Schlicher, Professorship for German Language and Literature Didactics

Johannes Wild, Professorship for German Language and Literature Didactics

Prof. Dr Stefan Krauss, Professorship for Mathematics Didactics

Andreas Eberl, Professorship for Mathematics Didactics

Prof. Dr Silke Schworm, Professor of Education (Focus: “Learning with visual media”), UR (University of Regensburg) classes

Stefan Prock, Project Coordinator, UR classes

Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU):

Dr Günter Renner, Professorship for Primary School Pedagogy and Didactics

Dr Eva-Maria Kirschhock, Professorship for Primary School Pedagogy and Didactics

Prof. Dr Sabine Martschinke, Professorship for Primary School Pedagogy and Didactics

Prof. Dr Bärbel Kopp, Professorship for Primary School Pedagogy and Didactics

Project Content

The “Digital Campus” project aims to strengthen the domain-specific basic IT competencies of lecturers and trainee primary school teachers. In the process, inclusion into the teaching offering as part of the study pathway “Teacher training for primary schools” operates on three levels:

Students	Lecturers	Pupils
Occupational competencies	Qualification	Connection to the practice through UR classes
Ability to reflect	Use of digital media in the university	Increased skills
Knowledge of general criteria	Domain-specific professionalisation with occupational-didactic, primary school-pedagogical, and media-didactic elements	Learning gains
Creation of digital learning environments for primary school pupils	Joint work on the interdisciplinary IT competency of prospective teachers	Increased media competencies
Ability to reflect on one’s own actions		Individualisation
		Media differentiation and adaptivity

The aim is to promote the skills of university lecturers, trainee teachers, and pupils in the digitalised world. The programme promotes general skills in the professional use of media as well as media-didactic and media-education skills. A higher level of skill among lecturers should contribute to a higher output in seminars as a result of model learning and a higher media-didactic level in courses, as well as an expansion of the skills of students. Focus is placed on media-related professional knowledge, reflection, and criticism of existing media learning environments, as well as on the ability to individually shape learning environments. The UR (University of Regensburg) classes strive to ascertain whether this affects pupils.

As part of this, students can attain the “Medienpädagogik Basiskompetenzen-Zertifikat” [Certificate for Basic Competencies in Media Pedagogics]. This will initially be offered for teachers in training in primary schools, with the further aim of extending to trainee teaching posts at middle schools, vocational schools, and grammar schools.

Press release from the University of Regensburg regarding the “Digital Campus” project http://www.uni-regensburg.de/pressearchiv/pressemitteilung/700005.html

Involved:

Michael Haider Project Leader Günter Renner Project Member Eva-Maria Kirschhock Project Member Sabine Martschinke Project Member Bärbel Kopp Project Member