Research, continuing education and entrepreneurship

New center for digital education technologies

In addition to schools and universities, the TUM Center for Educational Technologies concentrates primarily on medicine and the development of management staff. It will develop for example new varieties of continuing education on the use of Artificial intelligence in schoolroom teaching. Accordingly, the center has been created as a part of the TUM Institute for LifeLong Learning.

Furthermore, the center will facilitate general access to the many tools, platforms and continuing education opportunities already on existence at TUM. For example, the “Toolbox Lehrerbildung" offers multimedia materials for teachers training regarding the STEM subjects, the online portal "Clearing House Unterricht" explains the current state of research on practical questions of schoolroom teaching. Data sciences students can learn on the Artemis platform. The center will also support teams that want to bring the learning technologies developed at TUM to market as start-ups.

"Hardly any other German university consolidates education sciences, computer sciences and data sciences with this impressive degree of strength to create value. Accordingly the TUM Center for Educational Technologies is also a part of the Excellence Strategy of the German federal and state governments. We want to leverage this potential and want to redefine learning and teaching with new technologies," says Prof. Thomas F. Hofmann, President of TUM. "Education is the key to securing the future of our nation."

"School lesson design is often out of step with the worlds in which the children and youth of today live. Digital technologies should therefore be a standard part of teaching. We want to show when using these technologies makes sense and how they can result in success," says education scientist Prof. Tina Seidel, Co-Director of the TUM Center for Educational Technologies. "The tools are not meant to replace teachers, but rather to support them – a topic which is all the more urgent given the current shortage of qualified personnel."

Computer scientist and Co-Director Prof. Enkelejda Kasneci says: "Technologies let us make education much more personal and much more participative. When students receive individual support, the result can reduce the importance of their origin, their previous knowledge and the conditions at their educational facilities. And ultimately it can increase their motivation, since technology is always available and never loses its patience."