International Alumni Training Seminar DigEdu – Training Digital technologies in environmental education

Project Description

In an eight-day seminar in Nairobi organized by the Geography Didactics working group at Osnabrück University in cooperation with Goethe University Frankfurt and Kenyatta University Nairobi, African alumni of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) will learn about various ways of using e-learning technologies to better understand and deal with climate change and the biodiversity crisis. The main methods used are e-portfolios, AI (Artificial Intelligence), VR (Virtual Reality) and AR (Augmented Reality). With the help of these techniques, participants will develop their own concepts for making university teaching more accessible to climate and sustainability issues and their solutions and generating greater added value for students. Following the seminar, the group will travel on to the eLearning Africa Conference in Rwanda. There, the alumni will organize their own workshop in which they will present the digital tools with practical application examples. An important step for the success of the seminar: The seminar participants have become multipliers for the digital technologies, which are intended to improve university teaching in the long term. The aim is for them to continue this work at their own universities.