The Project

UHH / DDLitLab

How do digital formats affect subject content and teaching processes? How can students gain a critical and reflective understanding of data practices and their consequences? How should digital or hybrid teaching formats be designed beyond the pandemic? How does new technology-induced teacher and student role models look like?

Thinking digitally from the start

The Digital and Data Literacy in Teaching Lab (DDLitLab) project considers these and other questions. It promotes digital teaching innovation related to data literacy education with teaching projects at all faculties and as part of inter-faculty seminars. We see digital approaches and spaces as a starting point for the program and not, as so often, as simply a supplement to the physical classroom. Digital and Data Literacy in Teaching Lab is funded by the Stiftung Innovation in der Hochschullehre in the amount of €5 million for four and a half years.

What exactly is digital and data literacy?

"Digital and data literacy means the technical and cultural ability to orientate and help shape processes of (digital) data collection and storage, their processing, analysis and visualization as well as a critical reflection of contemporary digital and data practices and their consequences for everyday social life in science, law, culture, politics and business"
(German: University of Hamburg, 2023)

A central goal of the project is to enable students to gain a critical understanding of digital and data practices and to handle data responsibly.

The basis is provided by our interdisciplinary Data Worlds program, a 2-semester lecture cycle with application exercises.

We also promote innovative teaching ideas in subject-specific, interdisciplinary and transfer-oriented courses as part of the teaching laboratory.

Students who want to work intensively on their own chosen, data-driven topics and thus individually expand their knowledge and digital and data skills are supervised in the student reasearch groups with a focus on data literacy.

Strengthening the digital education skills of teachers: DUTy

Developing DUTy, i.e. the digital university teaching literacy of teachers, is also a core objective of our project.

Together with the Hamburg Center for University Teaching and Learning (HUL, German), we are building and expanding structures in which teachers can expand their digital education skills in order to master and design digital and hybrid teaching formats even more confidently.

As a central structure, we are creating a directory of all offers for teachers, the Teaching Navi (German), and developing materials such as the teaching path (German).