Digital Teaching

Digital photonics lecture. Image: Steffen Walther.

Digitalization and international digital collaboration have become essential prerequisites for excellence in future academic education and research. It is forecasted that physical mobility may be increasingly replaced by intelligent mobility – a mixture of physical and digital presence. At our school, a digital teaching team works exactly towards the realization of this plan. Even prior to the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, we are engaged in enabling collaborative digital teaching, for example within our project digiPHOTON funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)External link. Strong support and synergies are created by our collaboration with the exc ellent equipment and the experts of the Digital Teaching Lab of the Max Planck School of PhotonicsExternal link. All our digital teaching activities fulfill a twofold purpose. On one hand, we provide support for our faculty in their basic teaching activities, including didactic and technical aspects of digital education, such as course design, technical realization and broadcasting. On the other hand, we are working on solutions for pertinent challenges of digital education, such as hybrid photonics laboratories at different locations.