Digital strategy of the TU Dortmund: promote AI and diversity in studies

Digital strategy of the TU Dortmund: promote AI and diversity in studies

The Technical University of Dortmund has published a comprehensive strategy for digitization of studies and teaching. This strategy aims to improve the quality of digital teaching and ranges from the integration of artificial intelligence to creating offers for scientific training. According to tu dortmund The implementation is structured in four central fields Intelligence.

An important part of the strategy is certification and evaluation of digital teaching based on specific criteria. This is done with the support of the Center for Higher Education, the IT & Media Center and the University Library.

focus on artificial intelligence

The area of ​​artificial intelligence plays a central role in the strategy. Students should not only learn how to deal with AI tools, but also take part in special events in order to expand their skills in this area. A highlight is the offer "Campus-Ki", which enables anonymous and free access to Chatgpt-4O for students and teachers. Further assistance in dealing with AI is provided in the service portal, in particular on examination law issues.

The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) supports these developments at the national level. Digital technologies, especially artificial intelligence, offer new perspectives for students and teachers, and university formation is designed by these innovations more open and fairly, such as BMBF explained.

diversity and internationalization

Another main concern of the strategy is to improve diversity and internationalization in digital teaching. Asynchronous or hybrid offers make it easier to combine studies and work or family. In addition, international teachers are to be involved in promoting different perspectives in the courses. Barrier-free digital offers, supported by the Dobus program.

The strategy documents about 30 concrete measures that aim to achieve new target groups, for example through digital formats for further scientific training. One of the challenges is to develop digital content that is based on the needs of teachers and school management.

Integration of AI projects into university education

The federal-state initiative "Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education" promotes many projects to strengthen AI competencies, both for students and for university staff. Projects such as "Ki-Campus" offer free online courses and learning resources, which were documented by BildungsServer . These initiatives show the trend of integrating AI into different courses and disciplines and developing intelligent assistance systems as well as AI-based learning and examination systems.

Some examples of funded projects are "2like" that develops AI-based learning offers, as well as "Cavas+", a AI-based assistance system for study planning. These projects illustrate the long -term goal of modernizing digital university formation and reacting to the requirements of a rapidly changing world of work.