About the project edu 4.0

The BiSE project edu 4.0 – digitalization in teacher education is concerned with a culture of digital transformation at Gymnasium and vocational schools.

It has been awarded funding from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research in the framework of the joint “Qualitätsoffensive Lehrerbildung” of the federal and state governments, a quality enhancement campaign in teacher education, for the duration of the project (2020-2023).

Project goals

• Development of a professionalization model to enhance the digitalization-related skills of lecturers and prospective teachers
• Training and advice for lecturers in teacher education
• Systematic anchoring of digitalization-related content and teaching/learning formats in study programmes
• Creation and promotion of digitalization-specific support and advisory structures for teacher education students
• Networking of central areas (individual disciplines, educational sciences and teaching methodology) and embedding in the university’s overall digitalization strategy
• Research projects in the area of digitalization related to teaching
• Systematic monitoring and quality assurance

Action areas

To achieve the project goals, there are three action areas that target the teaching degrees for both Gymnasium and vocational schools.

1. Action area – In-house capacity building
2. Action area – Training for prospective teachers
3. Action area – Teaching-related research projects

Across all action areas – Quality assurance

Sub-projects

• Model of professional action
  The edu 4.0 model of professional action in digitally supported teaching of university lecturers in teacher education
• For teachers: Digitisation in teacher training
  Digitisation-related training & advisory services for lecturers
• For teachers: Freedom spaces for digital teacher education
  Overview of the funded freedom spaces projects
• For students: Digitisation in teacher training
  Digitisation-related learning & advisory services for students
• Research & Development: Virtual teaching and learning worlds
  Development and testing of VR-based teaching and learning scenarios
• Research & Development: Digital Learning Site Cooperation
  Digital media in the learning location cooperation of vocational education and training teachers.
• Quality assurance in teacher education

Schedule

The schedule includes systematic in-house capacity building (action area 1) in 2020. From the first quarter of 2021 onwards, the multiplier team will hold systematic training sessions for lecturers involved in teacher training. The systematic integration of digital media (as method and object) into studies for future teachers commenced in the summer semester 2021. Individual curricular elements already began in the winter semester 2020/21. All the materials and concepts generated in the framework of the project will be prepared in such a way that they are also available to teaching staff at all universities after the end of the project as OER.