29 March 2019, 9:30 – 16:00, Glauchau University of Cooperative Education

The aim of this workshop is to train teaching staff in the use of e-learning tools to support students in achieving their learning objectives in different communicative learning environments (synchronous, asynchronous). The workshop focuses on classical learning environments and their application (e.g. Moodle) as well as other (open-source) tools.

Focus of the workshop:

Practical discussion of different tools, advantages and disadvantages, assessment of possible applications.

   What are essential e-learning tools?

•     What technical solutions are suitable for my seminar and
•     how can the right selection be made?
•     How can online communication be assisted or encouraged?
•     What fields of application are there in teaching?
•     What needs to be taken into account; what are the challenges?

Objectives of the workshop:

•    familiarize participants with essential e-learning tools and their use
•    planning and implementing my project: didactics and e-learning
•    chances and challenges – for teachers and learners

Costs:
Teaching staff of Berufsakademie Sachsen: free
Reduced fee: 35.00 € (for teaching staff from other Saxon universities and institutes of higher education)
Regular fee: 158.00 €

For further information click here.

Registration: hds@ba-sachsen.de

26 March 2019, 9:00 – 16:30, Riesa University of Cooperative Education

Learning should be fun if what has been learned is to be internalized in the long run for later application. This includes a positive learning environment and creative learning methods. „Gamification“ turns out to be an interesting approach in this regard. The workshop offers an insight into gamification as a resource for the activating design of lectures and seminars. Try it and experience the rewards of learning by playing.

Contents:

• the origin and backgrounds of gamification
• overview of gamification elements
• application of selected methods
• development of own ideas

Objectives:

• familiarize participants with basics of suitable gamification methods and their fields of application
• expand participants‘ repertoire of activating teaching methods

Costs:
Teaching staff of Berufsakademie Sachsen: free
Reduced fee: 35.00 € (for teaching staff from other Saxon universities and institutes of higher education)
Regular fee: 158.00 €

For further informationen click here.

Registration: hds@ba-sachsen.de

Please note: registration deadline 11 March 2019

04 March 2019, 9:00 – 16:30, Leipzig University of Cooperative Education

Why is creativity so important for future engineers and thus an essential part of their training?

Creativity and innovation form the basis for the development of new and effective technical solutions to problems that have been provoked by technical and social changes. However, there appears to be a gap between creativity and innovation on the one side and the highly structured and formalized training of professional engineers on the other. A growing number of bridges have been developed recently to overcome or even close this gap. In particular the laboratory has turned out as the teaching and learning scenario that can combine creativity and innovation with the processing of engineering tasks.

The workshops aims to use the freedoms and scopes of laboratories to optimally develop the learners‘ creative potential during their professional training.

Various creativity and thinking techniques will be introduced and practically applied in the exemplary development of scenarios for creativity in the laboratory.