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Die digitale Universität muss als eine Form des Erscheinens ihrer Mitglieder in spezifischen Räumen und Handlungen verstanden werden. Die Verhandlung ihrer Bedingungen ist von brennender Aktualität: Das Feuer, das die Idee der digitalen Universität entfacht, hat das Potential, die apriorische Ebene von Universität zu verabschieden und ihre neue Setzung zu veranlassen. Die Transformationen der Wissenschaft, ihrer Systeme und Ordnungen fokussiert sich meist auf eine Politik des Digitalen beziehungsweise eine Politik der Digitalität. Durch die jüngsten Ereignisse, die auch die Universität in eine Krisen- und Ausnahmesituation bringen, gewinnt dieser Aspekt eine besondere Brisanz. Die unumgängliche Entwicklung neuer Lehr- und Forschungsformate führt zu einem grundlegenden Strukturwandel der Universität. Diese Frage von philosophischer oder universitätstheoretischer Brisanz, muss ein ernsthaftes Nachdenken über die Idee der digitalen Universität anstoßen. Digitalität und Universität können nicht länger als voneinander getrennte und unveränderliche Begriffe und Phänomene aufgefasst werden, denn sie sind in ihrer Kombination intrinsisch miteinander verbunden. (Verlagsangaben)

Every organisation, whether for profit or as non-profit, needs motivated employees. HR Management is often not seen as a core function and most managers do not receive a systematic and sustainable leadership training either.

Die Reihe Wissenschaft kommunizieren und mediengerecht posi­tio­nie­ren verschafft Ihnen einen kompakten Überblick über die Grundlagen, Werkzeuge und Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten, um wissenschaftliche Themen gezielt in die Öffentlichkeit sowie in spezifische Zielgruppen hineintragen zu können.

Die Internationalisierung von Hochschulen muss mit passenden Angeboten für internationale Studierende einhergehen. Ein systemisches und kultursensitives Peer-Coaching kann internationale Studierende unterstützen, sich zu orientieren, zu integrieren und berufliche Ziele zu verwirklichen. Gleichzeitig entwickeln die zu Peer-Coaches ausgebildeten Studierenden Sensibilität für Diversität. Insgesamt wird ein kultursensitives Miteinander an der Hochschule gefördert.

Any organization, private or public, profit or non-profit, requires effective management. Being a manager is nowadays a mass-profession - however, managers have often have not received systematic training.

Digital transformation in Higher Education and Science is a mission-critical demand to prepare educational institutions for their future competition on the international market. In many cases, the digitization goes along with the search for and acquisition of new software. For easily exchangeable software, wrong product decisions, in the worst case, lead to calculable financial losses. However, if a planned software requires a lot of technological adjustments and is to be applied as central component of a business- and/or security-critical environment, wrong decisions during the software acquisition process might lead to hardly calculable damage. Questions arising are how to decide for a product and how many resources should be invested for the acquisition process. We planned to apply a commercial Business Support System, which should replace the currently used in-house developed software. Our goals were the increase of our university’s level of data security, to ease the interaction between stakeholders, to eliminate media discontinuities, to improve the process management and transparency, and to reduce the execution time of automated processes. Alongside with the introduction of the electronic case file, our agenda stipulates the digitization (and automation) of administrative university processes, especially, but not limited to, the student self-service and the administrative student life cycle. Usual tools and practices, commonly applied to (simple) software acquisition, failed in our scenario. With the case study introduced in this paper, we address all persons, involved within software acquisition processes: From our experiences, we strongly recommend to place greater value on an exhaustively completed acquisition process, than on short-termed economic advantages.

Remote labs for students' design experiments are available in engineering education for several years. To ensure students' acceptance it is important to have an appropriate and stimulating user interface. So the usage and control of a remote lab has to be devised from the students' point of view. The contribution describes the FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) remote lab of the Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University and the design of its user interface from students' perspective.

A traditional way to teach bachelor students in electrical engineering is organized such that theoretical knowledge is predominant in the first year while applications and practical experiences are reserved for later stages of their education. In this contribution, we want to introduce a reverse approach: In a freshmen course at Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Science, students gain hands-on experience with resistances, condensers and other active parts, like transistors or relays from the very first day. We present how the combination of practical experience directly linked with theoretical knowledge enhances students' learning. It promotes deeper understanding of the theory and a better transfer between theory and practice. This teaching approach is adapted to address two main goals: First, to give practical experience to first-semester students as a basis for further laboratory and working situations. Second, to create a deeper and more sustainable understanding of physics by directly observing the effects that are described in formulas. The key to success is to find an efficient solution to carry out this approach with the given spatial and financial resources-which means, to do it in the lecture hall with very few material resources. To show that this innovative teaching concept really enhances the competencies of the students, an innovative evaluation approach was used where the students have to reflect upon their competencies before and after the course.