Ukraine Digital: Ensuring Academic Succes in Times of Crisis | Basic Didactic Principles and Teaching Methods
Content
In the framework of a cooperation between the project Network for Impactful Digital Teaching Skills (NIDIT) and Gießener Zentrum Östliches Europa (GiZo) of the JLU, NIDIT Task # 2 (International Training Team) has designed the workshop series: “Basic Didactic Principles and Teaching Methods”. The workshop aims to support lecturers and teachers at Ukrainian universities to maintain, implement, and deliver their digital and international teaching. The series of workshops combine both a digital and didactical concepts and approches in teaching.
The aim of this workshop series is twofold. On the one hand, it puts forward the discussion of new and innovative teaching methods and approaches. On the other hand, the workshop offers a general spectrum of last technologies and teaching tools that can be used in teaching and learning processes that ukraining teachers can use on either digital or face-to-face teaching environments. In general, this workshop seeks to broaden participants’ teaching skills to better prepare them to face potential challenges when teaching in different formats.
The content consist of:
- Didactic Principles
- Part I: October 5th, 2023 from 10 to 11 am
- Part I: October 12th, 2023 from 10 to 11 am
- A complex Approach to Digitalization: October 19th, 2023 from 4 to 6 pm
- Using immersive Technologies: November 23rd, 10 am – 12:00 pm
- Gamification: December 4th, 2023 from 2-4pm
Workshop content
The workshop consists of five parts between October 5th and December 4th 2023 with a combination of teaching didactical principles and methods with digital components. Each session would last one academic hour, i.e. 45 minutes. The content, presenters, and dates are the following ones:
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Session |
Description |
Learning Objectives |
Presenter |
Schedule |
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Didactic Principles I |
This session provides a theoretical emphasis where participants will become familiar with the conception of learning objectives, development of a teaching unit, and its main structure and phases. |
· Get acquainted with tips on how to conceive and elaborate learning objectives · Broaden the understanding and use of key teaching methods and approaches. · Get better insights into lesson planning, preparing, and delivering. |
Richard Vargas |
October 5th, 2023 from 10 to 11 am CEST (Central European Summer Time) |
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Didactic Principles II |
This session has a theoretical and practical emphasis. Participants will become familiar with concepts and approaches in teaching in higher education such as: the didactical teaching reduction, feedback, and assessment. They will also be introduced to some of the online tools currently used in teaching. This last part serves as a bridge to the next workshops. |
· Get familiar with didactical reduction to be concise in a teaching unit. · Know how to incorporate effective feedback and assessment that mirrors students’ performance. |
Richard Vargas |
October 12th, 2023 from 10 to 11 am (Central European Summer Time) |
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The complex approach of digitalization of the education process. How to keep the balance and save quality |
The advent of technology, the Covid pandemic, and, afterward, war have caused profound changes in higher education, making digitalization a vital aspect of today's academic environment. Now new challenges of returning to auditories often present teachers with the difficult task of adapting and balancing the educational process while maintaining its integrity and quality, all advantages and experience. |
· Get to know best practices for using digital tools · Get familiar with digital tools that can be used in a mixed/hybrid format.
Discussion: which digital tools contribute to improving the quality of education? |
Oleksandr Poddenezhnyi |
October 19th, 2023 from 4 to 6 pm (Central European Summer Time) |
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Using immersive Technologies |
This session provides an overview of immersive technologies and how they can be used in higher education. Before that, a quick follow-me-around will show the lab for innovative teaching in Giessen and its hardware. |
· Describe the term "immersive technologies" and name these technologies. · Get familiar with several teaching scenarios using virtual reality, augmented reality and 360° technologies in higher education teaching. |
Maraike Büst and Eva Dabrowski |
November 23rd, 10 am – 12:00 pm CET (Central European Time) |
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Gamification |
This session gives an introduction to gamification as a tool for learning and teaching. It’s focus is to get acquainted with the basic principles of gamification and to understand the mechanisms that lead to its effectiveness. Furthermore it aims on an understanding of what gamification is not and to know some pitfalls one might encounter when trying to gamify ones materials. |
· Being familiar with the theoretical basics of gamification · Understanding the terms Gamification and Serious Games · Being aware of the benefits of gamification in teaching · Knowing the pitfalls on the journey to successfully gamified learning scenarios |
Juliane Sommer |
December 4th, 2023 from 2-4pm CET (Central European Time) |
| Speakers | Maraike Büst and Eva Dabrowski (NIDIT - Lab for Innovative Teaching); Juliane Sommer and Richard Vargas (NIDIT - International Teaching Program); and Oleksandr Poddenezhnyi (Head of E-learning Center National University of Kyiv). |
| Target Group | Interessierte Tutor:innen aller Fachbereiche |
| Format |
The format of the workshop is online. Participants will receive a link to attend the workshops, once they register for it. |
| Registrierung | You can register via our registration form (link). |
| Language | The workshops are held in English |