Enhancing hybrid teaching in higher education through chatbots
HYBOT
The current trend is hybrid teaching, where teachers interact with students in physical and virtual classrooms in real time. This may be a future model for many universities in post-pandemic times, as it allows students to choose between a virtual and on-site presence and at the same time opens up new perspectives on the design of traditional face-to-face teaching.
Goals and contents
Designing hybrid teaching scenarios is currently still a challenge for teachers, as didactic expertise is required to link physical and digital learning locations. In addition, planning and implementing hybrid teaching concepts can be time-consuming.
The HYBOT project aims to explore the potential of hybrid teaching for universities and to develop new concepts. This is to be done with the help of chatbots, i.e. intelligent virtual assistants. Chatbots are already being actively used in various industries for entertainment or information purposes. Chatbots can also play an important role in education and especially in the development and implementation of hybrid learning scenarios by acting as digital assistants to teachers and taking on or supporting various functions.
Creating and implementing a good chatbot-based hybrid teaching concept requires special knowledge, pedagogical skills and, last but not least, a great deal of enthusiasm. All these building blocks are being brought together in the three-year HYBOT project with the aim of developing the skills of university lecturers in the design and implementation of hybrid learning and teaching scenarios using chatbots. In the course of the project, supporting tools such as an online training program for the development of chatbots, a handbook with good practices of hybrid teaching in Europe and worldwide as well as a transnational "Community of Practice" will be developed and tested. In addition, university lecturers participating in the project will demonstrate the knowledge and skills they have acquired by creating their own hybrid scenarios and chatbots and testing them with students.
In the long term, the project aims to contribute to the modernization of learning settings at universities and to increase the reach of learning opportunities in post-pandemic times.
The FHM team
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Prof. Dr. habil. Dr. h. c. Richard Merk
(retired)
Prof. Prof. h.c. Dr. Christoph Brake
(retired)
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Krüger
(retired)
Dipl.-Medienw. (FH) Kai Stremming
Head of Campus Management, Organizational Director FHM Bielefeld
+49 521 96655262
Nicole Schossmeier B.Sc.
Central Student Advisory Service & Applicant Management Bielefeld
+49 521 96655127
Nadja Hermanns B.A.
administrative manager FHM - on parental leave -
Victoria Wächtler M.Ed.
Study Coach Online-University
(pedagogy, social studies, psychology, health)
+49 521 96655241
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