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Teaching Commitment
The university teachers are responsible for teaching at the university. According to the Federal Constitutional Court in BVerfGE 35.79 (113), university teaching is defined as the "scientifically sound transmission of the knowledge gained through research". The freedom of teaching, which is protected by Article 5.3 of the Basic Law, guarantees that the teaching activities of university teachers are self-determined and free from directives in the choice of topics and methods.
In quantitative terms, the official duties of university teachers are generally regulated in accordance with the specifically assigned office as well as the respective Land's Ordinance on the Compulsory Teaching of the Land (LVVO). Furthermore, the extent of the teaching duties is determined by the respective fixing of the lecture period in the academic year. (Linked page in German.)
Teaching Management Systems at JLU
A teaching management system or Learning Management System (LMS) is a web-based learning platform that enables communication between teachers and learners and provides numerous possibilities for taking over administrative tasks and contributes to reducing the workload in the teaching process. JLU Giessen provides Stud.IP as a content management system and ILIAS as a learning management system.
Text and Data Mining (§ 60d UrhG)
Act on Copyright and Related Rights (Copyright Act) § 60d Text and Data Mining
(1) In order to automatically evaluate a large number of works (original material) for scientific research, it is permissible
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to reproduce the original material also automatically and systematically in order to create a corpus to be evaluated, in particular by normalisation, structuring and categorisation, and
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to make the corpus publicly accessible to a defined group of persons for the purpose of joint scientific research and to individual third parties for the purpose of reviewing the quality of scientific research.
The user may only use it for non-commercial purposes.
(2) If database works are used in accordance with paragraph 1, this shall be deemed to be customary use in accordance with Section 55a, first sentence. If insignificant parts of databases are used in accordance with paragraph 1, this shall be deemed to be compatible with the normal exploitation of the database as well as with the legitimate interests of the database maker within the meaning of Section 87b, first paragraph, second sentence, and Section 87e.
(3) The corpus and the copies of the original material shall be deleted upon completion of the research work; the making available to the public shall be terminated. However, it is permissible to transfer the corpus and the reproductions of the original material to the institutions named in sections 60e and 60f for permanent storage.
(Linked page in German.)