The Kick-Start into Digital Teaching Under COVID-19 Conditions

Abstract

The corona lockdown and campus closure of the TU Dortmund University led to a fully digital summer semester 2020 of the Faculty of Biochemical and Chemical Engineering. Completely digital? No! This article gives examples of different digital courses. From the perspective of the Dean of Studies, experiences and personal reflections on this unusual semester until July 2020 are presented. After a short introduction, measures for digital teaching with the gradual partial opening are described. Especially the exchange of experiences together with the students' feedback brought interesting results and experiences with digital tools. The lessons learned are outlined together with recommendations for different digital tools and an outlook on upcoming semesters.