Duration: September 2024 until January 2025
A responsible approach to digitalisation is of great social relevance. This is particularly evident in the topics of ‘generative text AI’ or ‘digitalisation of finance’. In both subject areas, knowledge is developing rapidly due to technological advances. Likewise, both subject areas have a direct influence on the general public, as they change the way we interact and act in society.
Research projects are an initial nucleus in which such ‘novel’ knowledge is created in an empirically tested form. These projects provide the first valuable results on digitalisation topics that are currently the subject of social discourse (so-called digital innovations). Easy and quick access to this knowledge by teachers and students offers great potential for further advancing digital education in schools. This novel knowledge is already being made available to a broad public in the form of project results (e.g. podcasts, comics, anthologies) by means of science communication. However, this knowledge often does not find its way into schools because it is not available in the form of digital teaching materials or as an open educational resource, or because it is not identified and found as such. The ZEVEDI Ad hoc project ‘DiBiS’ analyses and models a process that focuses on the distribution of research results as digital teaching materials. The subject is freely accessible digital content from research projects that teachers have to identify and prepare as digital teaching materials in order to use them in class. Such content is already available on the topics of ‘Generative Text AI’ and ‘Digitalisation of Finance’. Therefore, this content serves as an illustrative basis for analysing and modelling a distribution process.
A situation and stakeholder analysis is carried out as part of an empirical-qualitative study. Using the two topics mentioned above, types of provision of research results are classified, requirements for the provision and use of open educational resources are analysed, as well as requirements for their curricular embedding. A survey study involving interviews (target group: teachers, teacher training colleges) will analyse the challenges and needs of teachers with regard to the preparation and curricular embedding of open educational resources in the classroom at schools in the state of Hesse. Based on this, socio-technical requirements for a distribution process will be derived that focuses on the generation and dissemination of research results as digital teaching materials. Likewise, co-creation mechanisms for train-the-trainer blueprints are developed. These serve to provide teachers with suggestions for using research results as open educational resources for school lessons (secondary level 2). For this purpose, a blueprint for identification and a blueprint for preparation, including curricular embedding as digital teaching materials, is designed.
The ad hoc project will develop a target process for the distribution of research results as digital teaching materials. This illustrates the phases of distribution and, for each phase, the stakeholders involved, their role, tasks and outputs. The process integrates blueprints for the identification and preparation of research results as digital teaching materials in various phases. These blueprints serve as train-the-trainer elements for the co-creation of digital teaching materials. Against this background, the ad hoc project aims to promote a basis for the transfer of research results (i.e. freely accessible content for science communication in the form of podcasts, anthologies) as digital teaching materials in Hessian schools.
Project responsibility
Prof. Dr. Jan Marco Leimeister, Universität Kassel | more information
Dr. Sarah Oeste-Reiß, Universität Kassel | more information
Digitale Bildung in hessischen Schulen: Ein Prozess zur Distribution von Forschungsergebnissen als Digitale Lernmaterialien.
Brochure | February 2025
The brochure presents key project results of a study on the dissemination of scientific knowledge in the form of digital learning materials for schools. It addresses challenges of digital education, particularly with regard to the searchability, didactic preparation and curricular integration of current digitisation topics. In addition, practical approaches to the use of Open Educational Resources (OER) and concepts for co-creation processes by teachers are presented.
The publication is part of the ITeG Technical Reports series from the University of Kassel and emerged from the ZEVEDI ad hoc project Digital education in schools: the process of distributing research results as digital teaching materials, using schools in the state of Hesse as an example (DiBiS).
Video introducing the project and its recommendations
In the video, Dr. Sarah Oeste-Reiß (University of Kassel) uses slides to explain the background and recommendations of the ad hoc project Digital education in schools: the process of distributing research results as digital teaching materials, using schools in the state of Hesse as an example (DiBiS)
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