Shared lectures

Lecturing materials are mainly syllabus and slides (and related teaching media), as well as guidance to (optionally) integrate the other course elements and foster interaction among remote students and between remote teachers and students. Depending on the course objectives and circumstances, the actual lecturing material may optionally be complemented by the project results on virtual labs, virtual onsite visits and student projects (which are part of other activities of this project). The activity targets lecturers who are interested in remote teaching of transnational and possibly transdisciplinary student groups, as well as students interested in participating in transnational collaborative learning. The innovation of the course material results, among others, from the building block approach that allows for a small-grain combination of lecturing elements with micro-activities that require collaboration within distributed student teams. The approach also makes use of gamification elements like communication schemes as typical for respective collaborative games. 200+ students will be the first direct beneficiaries during the four test lectures and the summer schools. Since it is planned to make available the material through the respective dissemination events and over the project web page it shall serve as a best practice template for a large number of lecturers.
Transferability of the approach is an important aspect of the material and as such a motivation for the building block approach and (mostly) free combination of teaching elements. By respective combination of the provided materials, courses for about 4 to 12 weeks can be built.