Digital Workspace (for teachers): Basics for the promotion of digital skills in teaching (2025)

Digital competencies have been a growing focus in higher education—and not just since the advent of ChatGPT. These cross-cutting competencies affect all areas of life and work and require new approaches to integrating them into existing teaching concepts. Given the rapidly changing world of work, topics such as AI and data security—as well as communication and collaboration—must be dynamically integrated into teaching.
This (self-paced) digital workspace provides clarification of relevant terms and topics, as well as approaches to designing educational settings. Here’s what you can expect:

• An introduction and overview of the topic area of competencies/future skills/digital literacy
• An assessment of your own level of digital literacy and opportunities for development
• Suggestions for integrating these concepts into your own teaching based on proven instructional models
• Approaches for creating your own concepts and specific offerings for students to develop competencies in a subject-specific context

This continuing education program is highly customizable. It combines asynchronous self-study modules with needs-based, process-oriented counseling and discussion opportunities. You decide for yourself where to place your individual emphasis and which learning modules or assignments are most relevant to you (principle: “Market of Opportunities”).

Dates

Start of the self-study components in the OPAL course – February 2, 2025

Details and registration: https://bildungsportal.sachsen.de/opal/auth/RepositoryEntry/46573125633/CourseNode/102546946578743

What is a Digital Workspace?
In open workshop formats, all stakeholders involved in teaching at the partner universities (see below) can work on the design and development of digital media-supported teaching and learning scenarios. By drawing on a wide range of expertise and engaging in peer exchange, they not only expand their individual skills but also directly implement a concretely planned project in the field of digital higher education. This creates immediate added value for the instructors themselves and for the universities as a whole.
Video about the program: https://videocampus.sachsen.de/category/video/Die-Digital-Workspaces