Online Lectures – Strategies for Applying Advanced Digital Media for Future Higher Education

摘要

As a direct result of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been an unparalleled shift in working environments towards home office in order to ensure social distancing rules. Amidst this sudden change of procedures is especially the field of education, causing a multitude of new challenges since almost all university lectures were previously held in an in-class format. As curriculums were hectically redesigned and adapted to fit an online format, bold and innovative approaches had to be undergone. Reflecting on the outcomes of these new measures, the question emerges whether we have just taken the first step towards a sustainable and lasting transformation of university (and in particular engineering) education or if the majority of these new procedures will remain a temporary compromise. In this paper, we describe our approaches to switch university education to an online format, show our concepts for effective online-lectures, present the evaluation of our changes and discuss how a sustainable positive transformation can be achieved.