This year's Digital Learning Day once again offered a varied program with content highlights and room for new perspectives. The start-ups Fuxam, lytris and Kersta provided exciting insights into their approaches and experiences and rounded off the day with a joint panel discussion. Here, different perspectives on the new AI technologies came together.
Markus von Staden, founder of the Aalen-based AI start-up Kersta, drew the following conclusion: "AI makes learning interactive and personalizable. It is not a function in itself - but a technology that opens up possibilities that were simply not feasible before. It can support students around the clock, prepare content in a targeted manner and make learning processes adaptive." Staden is convinced that AI will not replace analog teaching, but rather complement it in a meaningful way. The trick is to use AI where it offers real added value and to preserve analog approaches where they are superior.
For the first time this year, the program was supplemented by an interactive workshop by Prof. Dr. Constance Richter, in which the interaction between humans and AI was made vivid and tangible with the help of LEGO, thus opening up a creative approach to the skills of the future.
The focus of the event was primarily on personal exchange. The new premises in the Digital Innovation Space created an open and inspiring atmosphere that specifically encouraged encounters and networking. "The future of teaching and learning is created through mutual exchange - supported by strong networks and the courage to break new ground together," emphasized Dr. Martin Franzen, responsible for the digital learning infrastructure at Aalen University of Applied Sciences and initiator of the Digital Learning Day. After the successful outcome, it is already clear that the Digital Learning Day will be continued next year.
