Project D2C2
Project description:
Implementing digitization in disciplines in a participatory way :: Competencies Connected (D2C2) is a collaborative project of 10 Saxon universities and the BA Sachsen, funded by the Foundation Innovation in University Teaching and coordinated by the Higher Education Didactic Center Saxony (HDS). The goal is evidence-based teaching development in the field of digital teaching, for which specialist networks for exchange are being established and teachers are being supported in the implementation of digital methods and tools. General information about the joint project can be found on the HDS website. (https://www.hd-sachsen.de/projekte/d2c2)
The staff of the D2C2 project is in continuous exchange with university and media didactic actors both within the HSZG (e.g. Digital Higher Education, Center for eLearning of the HSZG, University Didactics Officer) and within the Saxonian network in order to share the knowledge gained from experience and thus benefit from each other instead of "reinventing the wheel". The goal is to create offerings that meet the needs of good teaching and promote it.
Offers of the association:
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SUBJECT-SPECIFIC PROFESSIONAL LEARNING COMMUNITIES: SUBJECT COMMUNITIES
D2C2 focused on five departments of university teaching. Cross-university teaching-related networks and communities were established in these departments.
The coordination of the teaching networks or communities was carried out by colleagues from the respective disciplines in the respective subjects at one of the partner universities. These were the contact persons for lecturers in the respective subject area and, for example, arranged contacts and organized exchange meetings.
An overview of all PROFESSIONAL LEARNING COMMUNITIES: FACHCOMMUNITIES can be found at: https://www.hd-sachsen.de/projekte/fachcommunities
The HSZG coordinated the Saxony-wide engineering network. -
DIGITAL TURNING POINTS
In the project network, colleagues dealt with specific focal points of digitalization in teaching, the so-called digital turning points. With their expertise, they assisted lecturers at all universities in the development of new applications and teaching-learning scenarios and worked closely with the Digital Change Support colleagues at all universities.
Focus areas:
- Digital skills of students in undergraduate teaching(details and contact)
- Didactically sound digitized workshop and laboratory work(details and contact)
- Didactically sound use of an OER task pool for mathematics(details and contact)
- Digital testing(details and contact)
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ON-SITE SUPPORT
Colleagues worked in Digital Change Support at all partner universities. These colleagues supported the lecturers on site with the implementation of innovative teaching and learning scenarios, the use of digital tools and research into their own teaching (SoTL).
The exchange format "Digital Teaching Exchange" was also part of the on-site support. Every fortnight, the digital room opened on Friday afternoons with exciting inputs from lecturers who reported on their experiences with digital tools using practical examples. Afterwards, there was an opportunity for questions and discussion. You can find further information at: https://bildungsportal.sachsen.de/opal/auth/RepositoryEntry/16440852481/CourseNode/1666232962460056012?10
- Central results from the project network
HD Sachsen publishes lessons learned, publications, SoTL formats and other project results
(to the website)
- Establishing and coordinating subject-specific professional learning communities
Community coordinators' experience of requirements, challenges, strategies for action and lessons learned(for publication)
- Good-practice impulses in the transfer kiosk
D2C2 publishes field reports of selected measures, recommendations and other project results on the new platform of the Foundation for Innovation in Higher Education
(go to website)
- Innovative concepts for knowledge assessment
D2C2 supports the further development of teaching innovations at the e-Examination Symposium 2024 at the Technical University of Munich at the Garching Science Campus.(read more)
- New impetus for future-oriented study programs
D2C2 supports the development of learning opportunities for future skills for the semiconductor industry.(read more)
- Perspectives on teaching. Journal for Higher Education and Academic Development
Implementing digitization in disciplines in a participatory way :: Competencies Connected"(for the special issue)
- A format that sets an example
Two years of "Digital Teaching Exchange" at the HSZG offer inspiring insights into the world of digital teaching methods: a review and outlook.(read more)
- Discover the university teaching of the future in virtual spheres with D2C2
Launch of the D2C2 theme booklet(event details)
- D2C2 supports the development of innovative teaching formats
Further development of an e-learning system to promote digital skills in engineering(read more)
- Students as partners in the D2C2 project network
Reflection on the network locations(for the article)
- Digging deeper together
How three unusual exchange formats improve digital collaborative work(more on this in the HFD blog)
- Interactive math tasks with JSXGraph in OPAL/ ONYX
Employees of the D2C2 project have tried out the prototypical embedding of JSXGraph in ONYX(read more)
- Free ride for D2C2
To the great relief of all universities, teachers and students who have benefited from the D2C2 activities of recent years, the project is being extended(read more)
- Successful 'Students as Partners' concept bears fruit
Students actively support the digitalization of studying and teaching(read more)
- Excellent university didactics among engineers
Teachers appreciate the active support of the D2C2 project in the design and implementation of innovative teaching and learning formats(read more)
- Increasing interest in gamification in higher education
Dr. Stefan Keck, who teaches in the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences, came up with the idea for a quiz app. He recognized the need for a suitable tool that would allow students to repeat learning content independently outside of lecture times...(read more)
- Teaching network for computer science
Saxony-wide teaching-related network within the department of computer science, in which teachers and students work on specific topics.(Details)
- D2C2 support for innovative concepts for knowledge assessment
HSZG presents learning concept at the e-Prüfungs-Symposium 2023 at the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) Aachen.(to the article)
- Exchange on the topic of digital teaching at the HSZG
After a year with many exciting impulses around teaching and learning, we look back and forward at the same time.(read more)
- Didactic reduction in laboratory practicals
Podcast - Dr. Julia Franke (D2C2 network)(read more)
- Engineering quiz app
Mittweida University of Applied Sciences is developing a learning app for engineering students in collaboration with Zittau/Göritz University of Applied Sciences.(read more)
Lunch in the digital space
New exchange format for digitally supported teaching at the HSZG.(to the article)
- On the way to a digital identity
Following the peer-to-peer strategy consultation, the HSZG is implementing measures for the digitalization of studies and teaching in a participatory process.(to the article)
- Teaching Network Engineering Sciences
Formation of a Saxony-wide teaching-related network within the departments of engineering sciences.(Details)
- Subject-specific and to the point!
Implementing digitalization in disciplines in a participatory manner. The Competencies Connected (D2C2) project at the HSZG is investigating this and offering support services.(to the article)
Network structure:
The following universities and colleges are part of the D2C2 network: TU Dresden, TU Chemnitz, HTW Dresden, HS Mittweida, Westsächsische HS Zwickau, ehs Dresden, HTWK Leipzig, HS Zittau/Görlitz, HfBK Dresden, Berufsakademie Sachsen (details and contact).
The sub-project management is in the hands of the respective prorectors for education, at the Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences in the hands of the prorector for education and international affairs, Prof. Dr. rer. Pol. Sophia Keil. At the Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences, the D2C2 project is affiliated with the Center for Knowledge Transfer and Education.
Project staff HSZG:
Lydia Laarz (lydia.laarz@hszg.de)
Ronny Freudenreich (ro.freudenreich@hszg.de)
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network structure:
The overall coordination of the project was the responsibility of the Saxon University Didactics Center (HDS). The prorectors of the HDS management formed the steering committee of the project. The scientific advisory board of the HDS and the e-learning working group of the Saxony Rectors' Conference formed the project advisory board.
The following universities and colleges were part of the D2C2 network: TU Dresden, TU Chemnitz, HTW Dresden, HS Mittweida, Westsächsische HS Zwickau, ehs Dresden, HTWK Leipzig, HS Zittau/Görlitz, HfBK Dresden, Berufsakademie Sachsen (now Duale Hochschule Sachsen).
Details and contact.
Project management HSZG
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Project staff
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The project runs from 01.07.2019 to 31.12.2023 and is financed with a total volume of € 3.7 million by the Saxon State Ministry for Science and the Arts.
