Toolbox for Object-based Methods of Academic Teaching Online
German project description
Academic heritage collections at universities and higher education institutions with objects like models, natural history and anatomical specimens, scientific instruments, archeological artifacts and art objects have a long and active history. Because of the material and digital turn, new object based practices emerged all over the world in research, teaching, participation, citizen science and public engagement.
The objective of this project is to foster and support innovative object-based teaching methods and practices in higher education by collecting, evaluating, enhancing and sharing methods, tools and recipes for teaching with academic heritage objects with a focus on digital and hybrid didactic situations.
The project identifies actors involved in object-based teaching, their needs and current practices, tools and methodology of object based teaching, online, in situ and hybrid. We will then enhance them through a process of analysis and testing and by building a sustainable online toolbox for object-based teaching online to make them accessible for a broad audience of teachers, students and researchers.
We thus aim to further develop and enhance object-based teaching and create a wider awareness and knowledge of object-based teaching in higher education as an innovative practice, for all disciplines and on a transdisciplinary level. We especially aim to foster innovation by using digital workflows and by facilitating access to and knowledge about digital and hybrid methods and tools. This will also initiate and stimulate a lively and continuing discussion of modern and innovative ways to teach and learn with objects, contribute to the valorization of academic collections and museums in research, participation and public engagement and strengthen international professional networks.
English project description
Academic heritage collections at universities and higher education institutions with objects like models, natural history and anatomical specimens, scientific instruments, archeological artifacts and art objects have a long and active history. Because of the material and digital turn, new object based practices emerged all over the world in research, teaching, participation, citizen science and public engagement.
The objective of this project is to foster and support innovative object-based teaching methods and practices in higher education by collecting, evaluating, enhancing and sharing methods, tools and recipes for teaching with academic heritage objects with a focus on digital and hybrid didactic situations.
The project identifies actors involved in object-based teaching, their needs and current practices, tools and methodology of object based teaching, online, in situ and hybrid. We will then enhance them through a process of analysis and testing and by building a sustainable online toolbox for object-based teaching online to make them accessible for a broad audience of teachers, students and researchers.
We thus aim to further develop and enhance object-based teaching and create a wider awareness and knowledge of object-based teaching in higher education as an innovative practice, for all disciplines and on a transdisciplinary level. We especially aim to foster innovation by using digital workflows and by facilitating access to and knowledge about digital and hybrid methods and tools. This will also initiate and stimulate a lively and continuing discussion of modern and innovative ways to teach and learn with objects, contribute to the valorization of academic collections and museums in research, participation and public engagement and strengthen international professional networks.
Participating external organisations
Financer
Bildungsprogramme
Duration of project
Start date: 02/2022
End date: 01/2025
Research Areas
General and Domain-Specific Teaching and Learning
Research Areas
Academic Heritage, E-Learning, Lehr-Lernforschung, Material Culture, Scientific Collections
