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Completed project · 2019–2020
Promoting educational e-learning application scenarios
The project developing an e-learning unit on ‘Good Research Practice’ receives internal university funding under ‘Win a Tutor – E-learning Teaching Scenarios’. Following the publication of revised DFG guidelines on good research practice in August 2019, the project will create and test an e-learning unit on the subject. It will comprise an interactive course and an online test. The slide-based course will include explanatory videos using current case studies, supplemented by learning checks and practical exercises.
The primary target group is advanced students on the M.Sc. Systems Engineering programme (Research Foundations module) and M.Sc. ProMat programme (Research Processes module).
Information and knowledge will be communicated digitally using tools accepted or popular among the target group. Interactive presentations, explanatory videos and activities will make learning enjoyable and motivate students to engage with the content. Self-assessment exercises and online tests will reinforce understanding and help students process the subject. The acquired knowledge and competences will be consolidated and can inform subsequent work.
After successfully completing the unit, participants will understand good research practice and recognise its significance. They will be able to give examples of good research practice and research misconduct and assess clearly presented cases against the guidelines. They will have the knowledge needed to conduct their own work according to the rules of good research practice.
The project will proceed in five phases:
Design: Developing the content pedagogically and researching and evaluating comparable existing provision, such as the University of Frankfurt's graduate training.
Creating learning content: An interactive slide-based unit, explanatory videos, quizzes and exercises.
Creating the ILIAS test: Developing the online test and integrating it into StudIP.
Implementation: Testing the materials in the Research Foundations and Research Processes modules, with compulsory exercises and online tests.
Reflection and optimisation: Evaluating the teaching and learning formats through a questionnaire; presenting results at the final ZMML event; optimising the unit based on the evaluation and, where appropriate, making it available to other programmes and graduate training.