Prof. Dr. Sven Jörges

In classroom teaching, it is a particular challenge to structure teaching and learning materials in such a way that they are suitable for the different learning environments and situations of the students. For example, materials for an interactive lecture are not necessarily suitable for repeating and consolidating the learning material at home, as the structure and scope of the materials may have to be completely different.

This motivation gave rise to the idea of designing the materials for the "Web Technologies" (Bachelor) lecture as a web application in the summer semester of 2018. This was done with the help of the reveal.js(Opens in a new tab)  framework, which allows interactive slide presentations to be created using web technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript). The resulting teaching materials are not "slide sets" in the sense of PowerPoint, but fully-fledged web applications. This made it possible to create several versions of the teaching material for different learning situations (e.g. a shortened version with special illustrations for the lecture, and a more detailed version for the students to follow up and deepen their knowledge in the self-study phase). The easy embedding of interactive content (e.g. learning games, animations, videos, HTML forms) has also already proven to be an advantage.

So far, however, these advantages have mainly been used in lectures. For the self-study phase, only PDF files were generated from the web application, which meant that students could not benefit from the interactivity of the materials beyond the lecture.

The aim of this project is to tap into the previously untapped potential of this approach to the creation of teaching and learning materials. If the resulting web application is also made available to the students as such, further didactic formats such as practical in-depth exercises can be linked to the actual learning materials, which can be used by the students beyond the pure classroom course. In addition, the integration of the materials into e-learning platforms such as ILIAS (e.g. as SCORM packages) will be evaluated. The results and the resulting source code are to be made available in the sense of open source in order to create a usable basis for the collaborative creation and exchange of teaching materials.