The First Webinar
Last Friday my first webinar took place. It went over six hours with 28 participants – in this post I explain in detail how I did it, what worked and what didn’t work. Read More …
Preparing your first webinar
This is the first of a series of “live hacks” on ways of teaching from home. In this post, I cover preparing students for the first webinar. I describe what worked well for me and what didn’t. Read More …
How do you update a MOOC?
(Siehe hier für die deutsche Originalversion dieses Artikels.) Over the past few years I created two MOOCs (“Massive Open Online Courses”), which are now being used by hundreds of students at our school. Not as Read More …
Small and beautiful – TinyCards
I am experimenting with Tinycards. Originally by Duolingo, the amazing language learning app, this may be useful for drills & preparing students for exams. Here is a first attempt: a TinyCard deck for basic information Read More …
Der Research Methods Online-Kurs – ein Erfahrungsbericht
[Dieser Vortrag wurde bei der Fachtagung E-Learning an der HWR Berlin am 21.9.17 gehalten] Zielsetzung Im Herbst 2015 begann ich, einen Online-Vorkurs zum Thema “Research Methods”(Forschungsmethoden) für Master-Studierende der Berlin Professional School (BPS) an der HWR Read More …
Creating an online presentation with H5P
In this short tutorial for my students, I only deal with parts of a course, not with the whole course itself. But a course is (at least) the sum of its parts (if not more). If Read More …
Studierende modellieren Startup-Prozesse
In Startups fehlen typischerweise Mitarbeiter/innen. Gleichzeitig gibt es unheimlich viele Jobs zu erledigen. In der Lehre gibt es Studierende ohne Ende, aber die Aufgaben im Unterricht werden oft als trocken und realitätsfern empfunden. Was liegt Read More …
Animate your classroom with Plotagon
For the past two years, I’ve experimented with a number of tools to animate scenes, lectures, exercises. I’ve done this partly because I did not want to have to produce real videos – I found production and Read More …
Man kann nicht gewinnen, wenn keiner verlieren darf
Der Artikel “Irrer Wettkampf um die meisten Zitate” von Hubertus Breuer aus der Süddeutschen Zeitung vom 2. März enthält viele interessante Ansichten und machte mich nachdenklich – aber vielleicht nicht so, wie erwartet. In einem Read More …
MOOCs – an impromptu SWOT analysis
On researchgate.net, Antonio Bartolomé from the University of Barcelona recently started an interesting discussion thread by asking platform participants for their views on the SWOT of MOOCs. Here’s my reply (images added later). Interesting thread! Read More …