Impulses

The short impulse contributions open up pointed perspectives on current developments and examples of innovative teaching and learning projects at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.

Opening  |  Larissa Barth
2.00 - 2.25 p.m. in German and English

Welcome  |  Prof. Dr. Winfried Speitkamp, Prof. Dr. Christian Koch
2.10 p.m. - 2.25 p.m. in German

Guest Impulse: Contemporary assessment in a culture of digitality  |  Christian Albrecht
2.25 - 2.40 p.m. in German

The digital transformation poses unprecedented challenges for the education system, because many beliefs that have been considered common sense in the teaching and learning discourse are being fundamentally challenged in the culture of digitality. However, the current culture of examination persistently tries to ignore these transformation processes: People write alone, in isolation, under proctoring. By hand. On paper. Without Internet access. The 21st Century Skills 'Communication' and 'Collaboration' are commonly regarded as forms of cheating in exams.
For a successful digital transformation of schools and universities, examination formats thus represent a bottleneck that every change process must pass through; Up-to-date teaching and learning design requires examination situations that reflect the conditions of digitality.

Students' perspectives on the digital semesters  |  Students
2.40 - 2:45 p.m. in German
with Sera Neumann, Paul Knopf, Michelle Reutter, Teresa Fischer, Maximilian Bürmeister, Sebastián Chiriboga Duque, Fabian Weber, Daniel Lauke

Video interviews, text and image contributions are presented to give an insight into student perspectives on the digital semesters. Students from different departments share their experiences of studying during the pandemic, and talk about difficulties and challenges, but also unexpected opportunities during the past semesters and their outlook on studying after Corona.


Hudson Valley Ecologies  |  Prof. Verena von Beckerath
2.45 - 2.55 p.m. in English

The Hudson Valley extends for several hundred kilometres north of Manhattan and is of high economic, environmental and cultural value for New York City and the towns, villages and landscape regions along the Hudson River. The interrelations and dependencies between town and country served as a starting point for the formulation of research questions, which were organised in six chapters: Alternative futures, Social justice networks, Food deserts in the land of plenty, Reverse commute, Small cities and The river that flows both ways. The experience and insights obtained on the journey from New York City to Hudson became collective ideas, which are reflected in the subsequent projects and their narratives. The teaching research project addressed social and spatial transformations against the backdrop of the Green New Deal.

The use of a text-based chatbots in the project module "Angewandte empirische Forschung"  |  Jonas Steffl
2:55 - 3.05 p.m. in German

As part of the fellowship program »Innovations in Digital University Teaching«, an automated chatbot is to be developed in order to support students in their learning and module leaders in their teaching. For this purpose, a text-based chatbot will be designed and implemented along the teaching content in the project module »Applied Empirical Market Research« in the master’s program Media Management. The concept includes four concrete application scenarios: student support, support of learning activities, self-testing of knowledge, and learning guidance. Thereby, recurring problems and questions will be answered automatically, in real time and without direct human intervention.

International 24h Urban Design Hackathon  |  Prof. Dr. Steffen de Rudder
3.05 - 3.15 p.m. in English
with Pola R. Koch und Martina Jacobi

The Urban Design Hackathon is a 24h online workshop for international students from European universities and part of the International Virtual Academic Collaboration (IVAC) program from the DAAD - German Academic Exchange Service.
Following the motto ‘Reanimate the dinosaur’, students are invited to develop future scenarios for obsolete structures of the urban environment while testing a new format of digital teaching and international collaboration - despite the pandemic and without environmentally harmful air miles.
The object of the first edition was the soon-to-be-closed Karstadt department store building in the lively district of Wedding, Berlin. In the second edition, students were asked to propose an urban transformation for Charité’s former animal testing laboratory, also known as “Mäusebunker.

Bauhaus.Module und Students' Learning and Teaching Projects  |  Ronny Schüler
3.15 - 3.35 p.m. in German and English
with Johannes Breuer, Galyna Sukhomud, Julia Albrecht

Bauhaus.Module and Students' Teaching and Learning Projects put a new spin on academic teaching at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar by providing a framework for multi- and interdisciplinary courses. Both formats are briefly presented during the “Day of Teaching” as well as the experiences with learning and teaching of participating students. In addition, this short impuls starts the next application cycle for winter 2021/2022.

Teaching Award  |  StuKo
3.35 - 3.55 p.m. in German

With the awarding of the teaching prizes, outstanding teaching during the previous semesters at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar will be honored. In addition to the four faculty awards, a special award for hybrid teaching and an award for student teaching/learning projects will be granted.

Outlook on the further program  |  Larissa Barth
3:55 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. in German and English