#13 Organisational Unit Educational Technology (LLT) Part 3

20 years of the OU Educational Technology at TU Graz

Today’s Organisational Unit Educational Technology (OU LLT) at TU Graz was founded in 2006 as the working group “Networked Learning”, at that time still part of the department Central Information Technology.

Although a lot has changed over the past 20 years, both in the field of technology and the organisation, the general goal of the OU LLT has remained fairly constant: expanding technology-enhanced teaching and therefore implicitly optimising technology-enhanced education for students.

The focus is on high-quality implementation, strongly shaped by the idea of providing a service for all members of the university. In doing so, LLT follows the mission statement of the Vice Rectorate for Academic Affairs: a high-quality, innovative and international study environment across the entire student life cycle.

TELucation: from a printed collection folder to a digital point of contact

This mission runs through all offers within TELucation – the aim is always to support teachers in their digital teaching with a high-quality, well-prepared service.

What started as a collection folder of printed articles has become a lively, constantly growing collection – online and offline.

TELucation as a source of inspiration for your own teaching

Teachers can use TELucation in many different ways:

• use the TELucation articles in your personalised collection folder as inspiration
• browse the online articles on the TELucation website
• look up step-by-step guides on digital tools at TU Graz
• listen to the podcast “Lehren – Lernen – Lauschen”
• write your own TELucation article and share your own experience
• talk about teaching at TU Graz in a podcast episode
• take advantage of the individual TEL coaching by the OU LLT
• adapt and share the openly licensed content yourself

In this way, TELucation turns from a mere reference work into a service to which teachers actively contribute – as readers as well as authors.

The structure of the OU LLT reflects this diversity

The Organisational Unit Educational Technology continues to work in teams organised by topic, which together cover the range of services around TELucation:

• The Instructional Design team designs content from a design and educational perspective, coaches teachers and is responsible for comprehensive support of all services. The focus is on direct media-didactic support for teachers.
• The Video & Animation team supports teachers with streaming, lecture hall and studio recordings as well as audio recordings for their teaching. A particular focus is on producing educational videos in the film studio.
• The IT Projects and Research team is always looking for new innovations in digital education and supports the realisation of (research) projects.
• The EdTech team develops the software on which everything is based. Among other things, the team is responsible for all Moodle-based platforms at TU Graz, above all the TeachCenter and iMooX.at.
• The FLAAIT team (Future Learning, Analytics & AI for Teaching) researches, develops and tests new technologies for teaching and learning, focusing on Future Learning, Learning & Academic Analytics and AI for Teaching. In addition to digital applications and services, the team is also responsible for DELTA (Data Environment for Teaching, Learning & Analytics), the central data basis for education-related analyses and developments.

A constant every semester: the LLT Breakfast

Amid all the change, there are also constants: once a semester, the OU LLT invites you to the LLT Breakfast. The informal setting offers room for exchange among teachers and is a fixed point for hearing news about TELucation and the services of the OU LLT first-hand.

Curious?

Browse the TELucation website, listen to “Lehren – Lernen – Lauschen”, arrange a TEL coaching session – or become an author and share your experience from your own teaching with the community.