Fotolia/WavebreakMediaMicro
Call for proposals: Digitalisation in education – baseline considerations and criteria for success
Funding period: 2018–2022
Field of action: Digitalisation and education
Objectives of the funding measure
Information technologies and digital media are shaping the everyday lives of children, young people and adults more than ever before. However, many educational institutions have not yet adapted to this development. After all, digitalisation in education is not just a matter of using media to supplement or replace conventional teaching and learning materials. In fact, digitalisation is changing teaching and learning situations and the roles of teachers. It challenges established concepts and organisational structures. Learning in a digital world therefore requires new institutional, organisational and educational approaches to solutions and design.
Against this backdrop, the former BMBF funded 29 projects addressing cross-cutting issues related to the impacts of digitalization in the education sector. Necessary processes of change in the education system were discussed in joint dialogues between academia and practitioners.
In doing so, the projects established a knowledge base for processes of change related to digitalization and developed, tested, and disseminated design concepts.
The research projects helped identify the challenges associated with digitalization and develop potential solutions to take advantage of the new opportunities that are emerging.
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