Enhancing Collaboration and Digital Teaching Competencies in Higher Education: The KoKoN Project

Abstract

The need for a rapid shift from classical face-to-face learning to digital and virtual learning formats during the Corona pandemic posed challenges even for experienced higher education teachers. When teachers are looking for suitable methods for their teaching scenarios and the associated teaching cooperation, they primarily use discussions with colleagues or the obvious (Google) search on the Internet. KoKoN aims to provide easy and secure access to high-quality and didactically prepared teaching and learning methods via the Digitale Vernetzungsinfrastruktur für die Bildung (DVIB) with focus on cooperative use and further development of didactic methods with reflection of experience-relevant best-practice information for all users. The paper describes the key components of this project by means of a usage scenario.