Alles Digital oder was?
A visit to the Competence Center for Digital Education at FAU – the Institute for Learning Innovation
As the saying goes, you never stop learning. This also applies to learning itself, because how learning and teaching is done changes greatly over time. Since 1976, the Institute for Learning Innovation (ILI) has been researching how media-based learning succeeds across the lifespan. Successful teaching-learning concepts in 2020 are, of course, primarily digital – but not just since Corona. Even before then, the ILI had established itself as a point of contact for teachers and students from all faculties at FAU on all digital learning issues. That’s why the conversion of university operations to digital, which was forced upon us virtually overnight by the Corona pandemic, worked comparatively smoothly. Since its outbreak alone, the ILI has already supported more than 1,000 digital courses on the learning management platform “ILIAS”. “Fortunately, we were already well positioned beforehand and were able to pool our resources quickly,” reports Stefanie Gerl, a research assistant at the ILI. Since 2012, digitization has been increasingly promoted within the framework of the Quality in Studies and Teaching (QuiS) project. The ILI is also dedicated to the ongoing development of the university’s own StudOn system. Read more…