The Digital Society Initiative (DSI) offers an Excellence Program for new and prospective doctoral students at the University of Zurich (UZH) who are interested in digital transformation. As a complementary curriculum to a doctoral program, general doctorate or doctoral subject, it prepares students from all disciplines for an environment in… Read More »Excellence Program
Digital transformation, lifelong learning and Sustainable Development Open Educational Resources (OER) are made publicly available and allow further development and dissemination by third parties. Thus, students can also build on existing OER and develop materials in the seminar that are shared in blogs, videos or wikis. This promotes digital skills… Read More »OER: Opening Up Education
What does “digitization” mean? What is actually an algorithm? The aim of the online course “Studium Digitale” developed by DSI is to give students at Bachelor level a first introduction to this broad and complex topic. The four building blocks of Studium Digitale are “Data & Information”, “Programming & Computational… Read More »Studium Digitale (Bachelor)
The project “E-Assessment & EPIS” promotes the digital transformation in the area of performance review by providing corresponding services at the University of Zurich. Consulting, support & operation to promote digital examination formats From exam registration to exam viewing, we provide the OLAT and Inspera platforms for conducting secure and… Read More »E-Assessment & EPIS
Higher Education Didactic Innovation Processes and Development Projects for Digital Skills of University Teachers in the Digital Age The cooperation project “LeLa – LernLabor Hochschuldidaktik”, funded by swissuniversities in the P8 program, strengthens the joint cross-university work (ETH Zürich, PHZH, UZH, ZHAW, ZHdK) on didactic issues and concepts. Through a… Read More »LeLa: Learning Lab Higher Education Didactics
Welcome to the virtual exhibition How do sustainability and digitization fit together? We invite you to a retrospective exploration of our exhibition “Green Bytes? The virtual tour offers the opportunity to learn more about the projects and people presented at the ZKSD on June 7. The event was both a… Read More »Virtual Tour “Green Bytes?”
In the first outreach call of the DIZH Innovation Program, funding is provided for projects that increase the visibility of digital innovations and drive networking among stakeholders. Up to CHF 50,000 in funding is available for outreach projects that communicate the impact of digital transformation and stimulate dialogue on its… Read More »Outreach call: promoting visibility and networking
The DSI is looking for researchers (PhDs) who are at the beginning of their academic career and are conducting interdisciplinary research on topics that are closely related to digitization and its impact on society. Possible research fields include digital health, digital ethics, religion and digitization, digital humanities, legal tech, etc.… Read More »DSI Bridge Postdoc Call
Dr. Ning Wang received a personal invitation by the World Economic Forum to attend its «Summer Davos» in Tianjin, China on 27-29 June 2023. She will be leading a hub session on 28 June at 11:30-12:00 local time. The topic of her session is «Explore Ethical Dilemmas of Emerging Technologies».… Read More »Dr. Ning Wang invited to speak at the World Economic Forum’s 2023 «Summer Davos»
In further developing the Swiss-AL speech data platform into an open-research-data (ORD) resource, the ZHAW Digital Discourse Lab is doing something better that AI-based text generation systems like Chat GPT are not yet paying attention to – and adding value for researchers in the applied sciences. Guest post by Daniela… Read More »ZHAW and swissuniversities promote further development of Open Research Data practices