04.10.2007, 12h00 - 12h30

Development of didactic quality in times of 'e-Bologna' - the project 'Missing Links'

The presentation describes the development and use of online learning scenarios with mentoring for bachelor courses at the university of Bremen. The title “Missing Links” emphacizes the presence of didactic gaps as a consequence of the Bologna structural reform and the development of e-learning at the universities up to now: missing links between learning in class and independently organised learning, discrepancies between possible and actual application of digital infrastructures, little transfer of existing didactical models into the respective teaching practice, little correspondence of institutional offers of training courses with individual competence deficits. These aspects were at the centre of a project conducted before and during the summer term 2007. It was concerned with the elaboration of keystones which can be integrated into the teaching and learning processes and universities, improving their quality, which meet criteria of compatibility with every day practice and which have been realised with ILIAS.

 

Dr. Ing. Ulrike Wilkens, director MMCC, University of Bremen

Ulrike Wilkens has a teaching degree in Germanistics and Slavistics and a degree in computer science. The focus of her scientific activities is the interdisciplinary space between computer science, semiotics, general education and art. Her early computer works were characterized by the development of hypermedia-installations for museums. After receiving her PhD degree at the Universität Bremen in the year 2000 she was pedagogical-technical director of the FrauenTechnikZentrum in Hamburg. Since 2001 she has directed the Multimedia-Kompetenzzentrum of the university of Bremen, where she has been concerned with the creation of a centre for the coordination of the use of new media in teaching. Its focus is the development of web-based learning scenarios in its technical and didacitcal dimensions.