Flexible teaching — intelligently solved
Interdisciplinary study offerings break down imaginary disciplinary boundaries and present both students and teaching staff with entirely new tasks and challenges:
- For students: Finding their way through a flexible study path they can shape individually.
- For teaching staff: The increased need for coordination between departments and more complex module planning.
Our answer: needs-based AI support tools
We develop digital tools that address exactly these points and make everyday university life easier. Our principle: every tool is created as a targeted, smart response to the concrete requirements that arise from the day-to-day practice of our new teaching and learning formats.
Supporting AI tools for our target groups
- For students: the AI study companion
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A digital mentor that reliably supports students from the application phase onward. The tool answers individual questions about study organization and content and provides orientation within flexible study paths. The goal is to ease the transition from school to university, prevent what is known as "summer melt" (the loss of admitted applicants before the start of studies), and sustainably reduce dropout rates.
- For teaching staff: the module and study program configurator
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A smart planning tool that supports teaching staff in efficiently designing interdisciplinary course offerings. The tool helps to flexibly combine suitable micro-modules and to assemble curricula for integrated modules and Integrated Study Programs as needed. The goal is to reduce administrative hurdles and ease cross-disciplinary collaboration within the organization.
- For businessess: the professional development configurator
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As an innovative extension of curricular planning, this tool opens up university teaching to the external job market. It is aimed specifically at companies and those interested in continuing education. The goal is to assemble tailored, certified professional development packages for lifelong learning from the existing scientific micro-modules, individually and flexibly.
Tying it together: technology's role across the project
Our intelligent assistance systems work indirectly, but with deep structural leverage across all areas of our new educational model. They act as a digital engine that sustainably strengthens three core areas:
- Successful educational journeys: They noticeably lower entry barriers for students, ease the transition from school to university, and actively support successful degree completion.
- Relief in teaching: They reduce administrative complexity for teaching staff and free up space for the creative design of innovative, cross-disciplinary course offerings.
- Opening up for knowledge transfer: They break down rigid structures and flexibly open the university's teaching architecture to professional development and direct exchange with society.
Your contacts
Steffen Becker, Prof. Dr.-Ing.
- +49 711 685 88273
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- Head of Department, Software Quality and Architecture
Melanie Schäfer, M.Sc.
- +49 711 685 84364
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- Coordinator of Work Package 04 "AI Support Tools"