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Track Information

Breakout Session A

Track 1: FLEX Centre

This session will introduce and lead you into the Future Learning Experience Centre (FLEX). Visit the FLEX Studios where WU faculty and staff can produce high-quality audiovisual media easily and without prior technical knowledge. The Centre also provides the infrastructure and equipment for experimenting with immersive teaching and learning technologies. Get an insight into Virtual Reality projects at WU.

Speaker:

  • Petra Oberhuemer Input Immersive Learning Scenarios | Head of Digital Teaching Services

  • Visit FLEX Studios | FLEX Team

Track 2: Immersive Learning

This session will reflect on the potential of Virtual Reality and immersive learning in higher education. Opportunities as well as challenges will be addressed and usage scenarios will be presented.

Speakers:

  • Raphael Zender Chair of Didactics of Computer Science, Informatics and Society | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Track 3: Innovative physical Spaces

Learning and teachings spaces we find on campuses today, are often based on the way we were learning and teaching in the past. Virtual and physical spaces are still considered separately and not in an integrated way. This session will rethink physical L&T space, taking into account current innovations in virtual learning environments. We will discuss new approaches to developing and implementing a sustainable and innovative university campus to create a place for seamless learning.

Speakers:

  • Ursula Spannberger Architect | RAUM.Wert, Salzburg

  • Cordula Loidl-Reisch Landscape architect | Vienna/Berlin

Breakout Session B

Track 1: FLEX Centre

This session will introduce and lead you into the Future Learning Experience Centre (FLEX). Visit the FLEX Studios where WU faculty and staff can produce high-quality audiovisual media easily and without prior technical knowledge. The Centre also provides the infrastructure and equipment for experimenting with immersive teaching and learning technologies. Get an insight into Virtual Reality projects at WU.

Speakers:

  • Petra Oberhuemer Input Immersive Learning Scenarios | Head of Digital Teaching Services

  • Visit FLEX Studio | FLEX Team

Track 2: Teaching and learning scenarios with 360° videos

This session will offer insights on the use of 360° video for teaching and learning purposes in the higher education context. Research results as well as usage scenarios will be presented.

Speakers:

  • Andreas Hebbel-Seeger Professor of Media Management | Macromedia University, Hamburg

  • Michael S. Feurstein Senior Lecturer, Department for Information Systems and Operations Management | WU Vienna

  • Rosanna Steininger Research Assistant, Institute for Business Education, Department Management | WU Vienna

Track 3: Principles for Learning and Teachings Spaces in Higher Education

This session will give valuable insights into the recent findings of the Erasmus+ Project "Learning and Teaching Spaces in Higher Education (LTSHE)", a project of European-scope. Among others, supra-national design principles have been derived in the context of educational policies. The session offers room for reflection on principles and standards for the design and implementation of learning and teaching spaces in general and the LTSHE project in particular provides a framework that HEI can draw upon when developing new learning spaces.

Speakers: ERASMUS+ Project LTSHE Consortium

  • Justyna Bugaj Professor | Akademia WSB, Kraków

  • Katarzyna Machala Lektor | Jagiellonian University Kraków

  • Hedda Zechner Teaching and Learning Development | WU Vienna