Institute for Digital Transformation in Work, Education and Society (IDT)

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MORE INNOVATIVE LEARNING AND WORKING ENVIRONMENTS

Fit for the future in higher education and business. 

TEACHING AND LEARNING WITH DIGITAL MEDIA

Media-supported education formats are an essential part of contemporary teaching in higher education. 

COMMERCIAL SERVICES

to ensure the digital revolution succeeds

FUTURE-FOCUSED LEADERSHIP

Collaboration in the age of New Work

Welcome to the Institute for Digital Transformation in Work, Education and Society – IDT

We work as an interdisciplinary team on a daily basis to: 

  • ​Make a significant contribution to practically relevant research in the field of digital transformation in work, education and society;
  • Create synergy effects by collaborating with companies in the field of leadership, human resource development and digital training;
  • Understand the future of work and place people at the heart;
  • Empower teachers and learners in using new media and ensure sustainable skills in their application;
  • Promote digitalisation and the use of innovative forms of teaching and learning in companies and educational institutions.

Research and development topics

  • Development and implementation of innovative teaching and learning scenarios and digitalization topics in companies
  • Research and development on digital transformation includes, for example:
    – Innovative opportunities for technology-supported teaching and learning (e-learning)
    – Digitalization in the working world of the future (New Work)
    – Learning & development in the digital age

IDT – facts and figures

Contact

Professor Dr Katrin Winkler
Head
katrin.winkler(at)hs-kempten.de

Professor Dr Sandra Niedermeier
Head
sandra.niedermeier(at)hs-kempten.de

Dr. Claudia Müller-Kreiner
Head of operations

claudia.mueller-kreiner(at)hs-kempten.de

Location

Rottachstraße 11 
87439 Kempten

Post
Bahnhofstraße 61, 87435 Kempten, Germany
idt(at)hs-kempten.de

 

Support for online teaching

Current projects

Research

As an institute, we are committed to conducting research projects, further developing digital teaching and learning formats, and publishing our findings. To this end, we participate, for example, in conferences on the subject of innovative knowledge and human resource management. One of the IDT’s primary goals is to promote applied research in the field of innovative and digital teaching.

Researching and developing digital and media-supported teaching and learning formats includes, for example, the topics:

  • Innovative potential for technology-supported teaching (e-learning) 
  • Designing didactically meaningful integrated models (blended learning)
  • Digitalisation in the future working environment (new work)
  • Learning & development in the digital age
  • and much more.

Field projects for businesses

For companies, we develop product-specific and other forms of training (e.g. stakeholder, project management) using interactive web-based training, animated video sequences, interviews with in-house experts and interactive quiz units. Our fields of activity include:

  • Consultancy in human resources development, personnel management and knowledge management
  • Employee surveys – from design and implementation through to evaluation and analysis
  • Designing and implementing multimedia learning elements, such as web-based training, information and learning videos, animations, 3D rendering and much more.

Within the framework of third-party funded projects, we regularly work together with renowned companies. Would you be interested in joining forces with us? Please get in touch.

Digital and Regional

“Digital and Regional” is a joint initiative between the Bavarian Swabian universities of applied sciences. In cooperation with Augsburg and Neu-Ulm Universities of Applied Sciences, we assist lecturers in designing and creating innovative teaching/learning concepts for the bachelor’s degree programme in SYSTEMS ENGINEERING (Bachelor of Engineering).

Collaboration with the vhb

We collaborate closely with the Virtual University of Bavaria (“vhb”). Within this framework, various projects are running in different contexts – from developing individual online elements and supporting teachers at Kempten UAS (SMART vhb) and developing and supporting semester-long online courses for students from all over Bavaria (CLASSIC vhb), through to developing massive open online courses under the auspices of the OPEN vhb project. For example, we offer courses on Leadership in the digital age.

Head of Research Unit: Collaboration and leadership in a changing world

Head of Research Unit: Digitisation in education and society

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