Digital Teaching in the Time of Corona

In many cases, digital teaching also requires new hardware to effectively implement blended learning formats. By Hannes Müller, Ute Wiedner - From one day to the next, the pandemic banished TU Graz students from the lecture halls. Nobody could have imagined this change, let alone desired it. But does it hold opportunities?. "We had set a goal before the pandemic to revamp our molecular biology lab exercise course and support it with digital teaching tools. Now we were faced with the task of holding the course under tightened hygiene measures and corona-related restrictions and supporting the students' learning success in the best way we could," Robert Kourist, head of the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology at Graz University of Technology (TU Graz), explains the initial situation. "Using the 'LabBuddy' educational software from a Dutch company, we digitally recreated the process of our lab experiments.