News and events

For teachers and instructors of the University of Basel:
In the fall term, the team Educational Technologies offers several training courses on how to strengthen your digital skills as well as those of your students:

• Using digital media for learning – participants in the course explore how students learn formally and informally with digital media. They will consider the benefits of different media and share practical approaches to finding, adapting, reusing and creating digital materials (in English).
• Opening Higher Education: How to strengthen university teaching with open educational resources – the aim of this course is to explore the new forms of knowledge transmission and new forms of learning made possible by digitalization (in English).
• Designing digital activities for student engagement – In this course, you will discuss and explore how to use targeted digital learning activities to promote student engagement (in English).
• Informationsdesign: Gestaltung von Präsentationsfolien, Postern, Berichten und Handouts – this course teaches the basics of information design and its implications for the design of teaching and information materials in digital and print (in German).

You will find more information as well as the registration forms on this page.

AlphaFold, Midjourney, ChatGPT... For several years now, AI-based tools have been increasingly shaping the research and education landscape. What are the concrete consequences, both positive and negative, of this development?

In this lecture series, experts from various disciplines will present well-founded insights and share their reflection with the public. It is aimed at students of all disciplines, as well as at other University members and the general public, who want to better understand the development of artificial intelligence and acquire «Critical AI Literacy».

More information on this lecture series can be found in the course directory.

Students can register via the usual procedure, other can write an e-mail to digital-literacies@clutterunibas.ch.

The program (in German) can also be downloaded as a PDF file here.

Program

The program (in German) can also be downloaded as a PDF file here. 

In the past months, AI-based tools have received a growing amount of public attention. Questions have emerged about the use of such tools in teaching. To support its teaching teams, the University of Basel has put together various resources, including a course on AI in teaching and “Citing AI tools”, a document for students that provides guidelines on how to cite generative tools.

You will find  further information including links and documents on the page AI in learning and teaching from the University's website. For teachers, the central entry point is the Intranet page “AI in teaching” (accessible to University members only).
 
The Project Digital Literacies has also updated some of its resources. On this web portal, you will find recommendations about valuable internet pages and interesting documents on what AI-based tools are and  on how to use them wisely. Check in particular

• our Information Resources on ICT Proficiency
• our Information Resources for Learning and Teaching

Moreover, the Framework Digital Literacies has been updated to include AI literacy among basic digital skills. You will find more information on this website on the corresponding page.

The series “Getting started with...” offers basic recommendations and practical tips and tricks on several central areas of digital skills. The following issues are now online:

• Digital learning
• Digital assessment
• Alternative tools
• Software literacy
• Online and hybrid meetings
• Digital security
• Open Educational Resources