Lessons learned? Online-teaching during the Covid 19 - pandemic

Abstract

The article presents our experiences switching from face-to-face to online-teaching during the first lockdown of the Covid-19 pandemic and the five essential core elements we used for our online-teaching. These are in detail: 1. Short lecture videos with essential explanations of the technical content, 2. More detailed exercise videos to deepen the technical content by means of various practical examples, 3. Interactive quizzes in the exercise videos to activate learners and to promote their understanding, 4. Weekly homework to encourage students to come to terms with what they have learned, 5. Consultation hours in a synchronous format to support student´s learning process. The article shows the way we went to create our learning format and the tools we used. Our considerations are supported by exemplary quotes from student feedback, both from the official assessment and from personal emails. Thanks to trustworthy communication with the students, we were always motivated to further develop our online-teaching. Finally, recommendations are given to stay in contact with the students and thus continuously develop the lessons.