DL Network
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The University of Hamburg has a university-wide cooperating network of institutions whose staff focus on digitalization in teaching (DL).
The goal of the network is to utilize individual competencies and create synergies to further optimize services and support processes and to ensure a common standard in performance quality. Networking among the DL institutions and with internal and external cooperation partners also plays an important role in this.
The DL Network at the University of Hamburg promotes and supports the use and further integration of digital media and digitalization at the University of Hamburg.
Objectives
- Support for the competencies of teaching staff and students in designing digital or hybrid learning environments through target-group-oriented advising, training, and qualification services
- Expansion of pedagogical design options in teaching, supervision, collaboration, and examinations
- Support for time- and location-independent as well as accessible teaching and learning through the provision of modern online learning systems and supplementary tools that meet user needs
- Further development of exercise and examination practices using digital tools
- Advising the management in the faculties, central units, and the Executive University Board
- Promotion of cross-university and international digital teaching offerings
- Promotion of research at the University of Hamburg through support for e-science projects
Origins
The network of DL institutions at the University of Hamburg was established within the framework of the e-learning structural project eLBase1 (2008–2011) with the faculties participating in the project and the Central e-Learning Office assigned to the vice president for studies and teaching. Subsequently, corresponding DL institutions were established at all faculties. However, the requirements for support and structural measures also increased centrally, so that the former tasks of the Central e-Learning Office are now continued, among others, in the Digital Office, the Hamburg Center for University Teaching and Learning (HUL), and the new Section 32: Campus Management of the University Administration. In the process, a central-decentralized structure was created, characterized by close proximity to the teaching staff and students at the individual faculties and institutions, taking into account their subject-specific requirements.