Diversity and New Media as a Didactical Principle

Within their effort to achieve more attractiveness and internationality universities as well as companies have to face a change in moral concepts, lifestyles and interests of their students. As the world is changing from an information- to a knowledge society, information- and communication technologies within the academic context of teaching and learning are starting to play a major role. These requirements have to be fulfilled by universities, bearing the education mandate in mind. As an organisation, they have to react to changes or innovations as well as to develop new concepts of learning and teaching within the framework of modularized courses of studies, which do justice to the reorientation from input- to output orientation, to the shift from teaching to learning as well as to the expansion of abilities and capabilities, which enable long life learning. The main aim is to put students with their previous knowledge, their ways of learning and their expectations, which means their diversity, into the centre of academic didactical efforts.

11.08.2010 | Karoline Spelsberg (Essen)