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DIDACTCS AND TEACHING  Teaching and Learning at MCI - New video on Blended Learning is online The MCI combines the strengths of on-campus teaching and learning formats with those of online formats. This blended learning approach is integrated in all MCI study programs and enables modern and student-centred teaching and learning.Get an overview of what studying at MCI can look like by watching the new blending learning video. You are also welcome to embed the video on your Sakai course site or study site to give your students an overview of the teaching format. Direct link: https://youtu.be/vpkuLozwM0I Image rights - what do I have to consider? The use of images, for example in one's own presentation, always gives rise to uncertainties. Am I allowed to use the image at all? Under what conditions? Am I also allowed to edit it? Basically, every image is protected by copyright law (UrhG) and therefore may not be used arbitrarily. The image may only be used under the respective conditions of use if an appropriate license or the consent of the copyright holder(s) is available. The Knowledge Transfer Center West has created a red thread on the topic of image rights that will help you evaluate your images and provide tips for free image material: >> Der rote Faden.pdf (German) INNOVATION AND INITIATIVE Metaverse and Higher Education The metaverse is a word combination of "meta" (beyond) and "verse" (universe) and is understood as a digital space in which augmented reality (XR) is used. Through the use of augmented (AR) and virtual reality (VR), the metaverse offers the potential to become a new learning and experiential space. Using a virtual version of ourselves, we move through digital space as an avatar, meeting and interacting with other people. What sounds like science fiction could be a new way to complete simulated lab exercises, recreate construction projects or take a virtual field trip with your own avatar. What is special about the Metaverse is the focus on social interaction and the feeling of being able to be part of this "new world" yourself.In the following video you will get an overview how Metaverse coulde look like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6VsxcVpBVY LEARNING AND COMMUNITY CORNER  Community Corner on Teach Online  On the Teach Online site, the support site for (online) teaching, a Community Corner is now available to you. There you can be inspired by innovative teaching projects and didactic approaches of your colleagues or exchange ideas directly with other teachers.Click here to go directly to the Community Corner.   Your Learning Solutions Team If you have any questions please contact us here: learningsolutions@mci.edu Our website can be found here: https://www.mci.edu/en/university/the-mci/innovative-teaching

Dear MCI Faculty, We are pleased to inform you about two important innovations just in time for the start of the semester, which we hope will also support you in your teaching: Teach Online New - The support hub for lecturers  New look and new link The Teach Online site offers you the opportunity to view relevant content for the planning and implementation of your teaching, especially in online format, and to be inspired if necessary. In addition, the site is intended to be a quick help for you if you should unexpectedly or unexpectedly switch from face-to-face teaching to the online format. The Teach Online site offers you the opportunity to view relevant content for the planning and implementation of your teaching, especially in online format, and to be inspired if necessary. In addition, the site is intended to be a quick help for you if you should unexpectedly or unexpectedly switch from face-to-face teaching to the online format. The site informs you about the following contents:  Online didactics Teaching with Sakai MCI Webinars Digital teaching resources Online assessment FAQs Training program & Sakai Tutorials  Click here for the site: >> Link to Teach Online MCI Study & Learn - Lifelong Learning at MCI  The existing Learn Online site has also been revised for our students and expanded to include content on general study skills. The focus of the site is no longer purely on learning in online format, but is intended to support your students in learning in general. You are welcome to communicate the link to the site to your students via the Sakai study sites or also in the welcome events at the beginning of the semester. On the site, students can find information and learn about the following topics:  The MCI Campus - onsite und online  Lifelong learning - Smart & productive studying  Agile Mindset Support  Click here for the site: >> Link to MCI Study & LearnNote: The site is public and therefore freely accessible to everyone.  We wish you a successful start into the new semester.  Your Learning Solutions Team

LEARNING & COMMUNITY CORNER Ina Fleischer new in the LS team The Learning Solutions Team is pleased to welcome a new member for the second time. Ina Fleischer joined us on 1st of June and brings with her a lot of experience in the field of training and media didactics with a focus on gamification. Ina will support the team in the area of instructional design, training and other projects. In the following video (with english subtitles) you will learn everything you need to know about Ina :) Dear Ina - welcome to the team! DIDAKTICS & TEACHING Tips for making grading less painful For many of you, the end of the semester is in sight—or at least it would be if you didn’t face a huge pile of exams and papers to grade. Grading season can be a slog—we’re sharing tips to make the process less painful. 1. Allow enough time to complete the grading of exams in smaller chunks.2. Set a goal for yourself, e.g. grade 10 papers a day and then give yourself permission to do something else.3. Use rubrics to ensure that you are grading consistently and transparently. Further techniques are presented on the following pages: "Grading Strategies" from Western University’s Centre for Teaching and Learning "Tips on Grading Efficiently" from Berkeley University’s Teaching and Resource Center „How to Grade Faster in 2020" by Deborah J. Cohan, published in Inside Higher Ed Good luck, and let us know, what grading hacks work best for you? INNOVATION & INITIATIVE EDTECH Austria Webinar with Lyuba Stafyeyeva, MA on Remote Proctoring Innovationsservice Salzburg together with EDTECH Austria organised a webinar on "Remote Proctoring: Dos and Dont's". Our colleague Lyuba Stafyeyeva, MA, took part and presented basic approaches, considerations and challenges in online proctoring of exams from a university perspective. The webinar was an exciting exchange, as the topic was examined from different perspectives: - Insights from international solution providers for remote proctoring- The perspective of users such as universities- Student perspective- Legal perspective Here (partly in German) are the presentation slides of the individual presentations from the webinar for review. Conclusion of the webinar from the MCI's point of view: Good proctoring is good proctoring, whether online or in person. So let's not be fooled: Guide to compressing videos We would like to inform you about a new guide on how to compress files. Some of you may have been confronted with large video files from recorded MCI webinars® or other files to share with your students via Sakai. It is possible to quickly exceed the maximum upoad limit of 150 MB or the total storage limit of 1 GB in a course site. To help you find a quick solution, we have created a short guide for the HandBrake software. The software is used to compress or shrink files and allows you to share your files with students in Sakai without much quality reduction.  The guide is available for you on our internal Sharepoint in the Media Productions section, on the Teach Online site and here as direct link. With this in mind - Let's compress!   If you have other questions regarding your teaching, we are always here for you! Your Learning Solutions Team.

LEARNING & COMMUNITY CORNER Learning Solutions Onboarding NEW For our new employees, we have come up with something special in the Learning Solutions.From now on, the Learning Solutions training will be conducted in a self-study format and can be flexibly scheduled by our new employees in terms of time and location during their onboarding phase.The training consists of four videos and provides an overview of the following topics: Who are we? What is our main focus? MCI Digital Campus Ongoing Learning Solutions projects During the enrollment session, new employees are invited to watch four short videos (in German or English) and then take a short quiz to reinforce what they have just learned. Click here to join the Sakai course of the Learning Solutions Onboarding. Just log in to Sakai and click on the Join button if you are interested in the format or just to learn more about Learning Solutions. Tip for PPTX in Adobe Connect: Preserve fonts If you prefer to work with Power Point slides in your MCI webinars via Adobe Connect and want to be sure that the formatting is preserved in Adobe Connect, here is a trick for you: Open your Power Point Go to the 'Options' in Power Point And click on the 'Save' tab. There you can activate the option 'Embed fonts in the file' - 'Embed all characters'. And then save again.   INNOVATION & INITIATIVE MCI Earth Day 2021  MCI Earth Day 2021 is an initiative organised by MCI students in collaboration with MCI PRME. The aim is to show how we can all contribute to a better future with small, everyday changes. Under the motto "We are all responsABLE" and in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), there will be a social media campaign with a competition on Instagram and a speaker session with discussion panel on the evening of 22 April 2021. Everyone can take part in MCI Earth Day 2021! The official language is English and all events are free and accessible online. To find out more and stay up to date, visit the earthday_mci Instagram account atwww.instagram.com/earthday_mci For more information and to register for the speaker session, visit the website:https://www.mci4me.at/mci-earth-day-2021   We would be delighted if you contribute to the competition and attend the MCI Earth Day speaker event. We would also like to invite you to make your students aware of the initiative. Digital Soft Skills@UlyssEUs  We are looking forward to starting a new project within UlyssEUs: D2S@UlyssEUs, an Erasmus+ Action initiative funded by the European Commission. D2S@UlyssEUs has the following goals: promote the digital pedagogical competences of faculty and thus the effective use of digital technologies in teaching in order to deliver high quality, inclusive digital education equip all learners with digital transversal skills to succeed in a world increasingly mediated by digital technologies develop an open badge ecosystem, the "UlyssEUS Digital Soft Skills Passport", for the recognition and validation of these skills. The project will start in March 2021 and has 24 months to achieve these ambitious results. The UlyssEUs partners are fully committed to the digital transformation and in particular to the transformation of digital education through the development of a European virtual campus.   DIDAKTICS & TEACHING Tools for online collaboration Group work in (online) teaching plays an important role. However, when we talk about online teaching, it is not always easy to find a suitable tool for efficient, interactive and productive group work.Here are some tools we could recommend for designing group work in your classes. Please note that when using external tools (i.e. tools that are not developed, centrally supported or hosted by MCI), you have to consider how to handle students’ personal data if it is transmitted in any way to outside systems or tools. In some cases, it may be necessary to inform students, or even seek their consent. MIRO MURAL Educator license is free (Apply as Educator).EDU license offers all PRO features.You will need to enter your institution and email when registering.Link to EDU license: LINK (Scroll down) EDU license is free.EDU license offers all PRO features.You will need to enter your institution and email when registering.Link to EDU license: https://www.mural.co/education  Possible application scenarios: Brainstorming Virtual group work Virtual warm-ups Idea generation Meeting management Mind mapping Planning Tool Project Management Tutorials:Get started with MIRO: LINKMIRO Academy: https://academy.miro.com/ Tutorials:Learning the basics of MURAL: LINKMural-Blog: https://www.mural.co/blog?topics=all-posts If you have other questions re. opportunities you have to establish collaborative work in your class, we are always here for you! Your Learning Solutions Team.