DUC - Diversity Management in großen Lehrveranstaltungen durch hochschuldidaktisch eingebetteten User-Generated Content

The DUC project attempts to overcome learning barriers and support students in successfully shaping their learning processes through innovative, technology-supported learning scenarios that take into account the diversity of learning groups in large university events. The aim is to promote cognitive skills in terms of specialist knowledge and methodology as well as non-cognitive, volitional and communicative skills, particularly in the context of intercultural exchange. The core objective of the DUC project is to offer students the opportunity to come together with other students after lectures in discussion groups[1] specifically composed according to diversity aspects and to jointly create specialist questions (“user-generated content”) on the content areas of the course attended. The content-related aspects generated in this way should then - after appropriate quality assurance and selection - be put up for discussion in the next lecture using a classroom response system (CRS) in order to clarify any misconceptions and promote the students' specialist skills in social interaction processes. Secondly, the generated questions are made available via a learning platform for other students on the course to review the content and prepare for exams. In this way, a double contribution is made to improving the integration and academic success of students in large-scale events characterized by diversity at Paderborn University: through the initiated group discussions and processes and through a learner-centered teaching design in the plenary event using “user-generated content” and a CRS.