Online courses

The term ‘online courses’ covers many live formats. These can include seminars, lectures, office hours, working groups, or even meetings, public panel discussions, and conferences. Depending on the teaching/learning scenario, various methods can be used to encourage participation and interaction. Within teaching, online courses are a building block of synchronous and thus simultaneous communication.

From the students' perspective, online courses are an opportunity to work together collaboratively. They can use them as a protected space for learning and discourse.

Courses that bring together participants both on site and online are referred to as hybrid formats.

Lectures and seminars can be held live online using video conferencing systems. Participants are connected via headset and webcam and can interact with each other in a virtual room. The video conferencing systems used at LUH make it possible to share audio and video with all or individual participants, share your own screen, write texts together or carry out group work.

Hybrid courses

Hybrid courses make it possible to hold face-to-face sessions online at the same time, allowing some of the students to join in live. Special cameras and microphones support the transmission and exchange.

This poses particular challenges for the teacher. On the one hand, they have to organise the technical aspects of the transmission. On the other hand, they have to moderate communication between those present in the analogue and digital spaces at the same time.

The Media Didactics team at ZQS/elsa is happy to provide further tips on the methodological and didactic implementation of such a course.

One teaching/learning scenario in which digital teaching content can be integrated asynchronously is blended learning. Here, joint face-to-face sessions alternate with digital self-learning phases. You can find out what this can look like in concrete terms on the following website.

You can record your lectures and teaching content, upload them via the LUH platform flowcasts and integrate them into your Stud.IP course. It is also possible to enrich courses with audio recordings, e.g. in the form of presentations with audio tracks. Students can use these recordings as explanatory or supplementary content to the documents provided.