Digilego Learning, Teaching and Training Workshop, 22-24 May 2023 Trier University & Luxembourg Institute of Socioeconomic Research Register here Workshop description The workshop offers the opportunity to develop and strengthens digital skills for geography and environmental sciences methods teaching including field, qualitative and quantitative methods. The workshop includes field elements and hands on training with selected tools and applications as well as presentations on best practices, experiences and interactive round tables for knowledge exchange and trouble shooting.

Digilego Open Educational Resources (OERs) Open Educational Resources (OERs) are, typically, digital materials freely available to assist in teaching or self-study. OERs can vary greatly in size and applicability. They can be part of a lesson, used as priming for a teaching session, used during a session, or shared with students following sessions to reinforce or supplement learning (e.g. provide alternative perspectives), potentially using different mediums. As part of the digilego project, we defined five types of OERs:

Digilego is hosting its second virtual field course development workshop in Berlin, Germany from August 29th to Sept. 2nd 2022. The aim is to develop a series of open educational resources with a focus on urban geographic and environmental themes that each have use and value in their own right but also as a larger-scale resources that can be used as a field session in an entirely online capacity. Participants will learn how to create virtual field trips and resources.

As part of the digilego project’s creation of open educational resources (OER) for LAB and QUANTITATIVE domains an OER bundle formalization meeting is taking place on May 23rd (12h00-14h00 BST & 13h00-15h00 CET). The meeting will mainly be a summary of who is participating in generating OER, what OER packages/groups/bundles they will be developing, an opportunity to express interest to collaborate with designated OER leads, and potentially a last chance to suggest an additional funded OER contribution.

Digilego is hosting a virtual field course development workshop in the Burren Nature Sanctuary in near Galway, Ireland, from June 28th – 30th 2022. The aim is to develop a series of open educational resources that each have use and value in their own right but also as a larger-scale resource that can be used as a field session/field day in an entirely online capacity. Participants will also learn how to create virtual field trips and resources.

This post provides an example online education resource (OER), which is one of the main output objectives of the digilego project.

Let’s talk about (de)colonial learning

Interested in teaching and learning in higher education? This workshop will provide you with an introduction to perspectives that allow you to critically think about power dynamics and assumptions in knowledge creation and learning. It will focus on how we can decolonialize our (digital) classroom.

On November 3rd, 2021, at 10am (UK time) the first event of the biennial ECTQG conference started. Digilego hosted a workshop titled “Facilitating quantitative methods pedagogy: Digitalization, innovation, and future needs”. The 90 minute workshop, besides an introduction of the Digilego project, focused on discussing what are: existing challenges to quantitative geography methods teaching (QGMT) are, during the COVID-19 pandemic but also more generally, recent innovations in QGMT have been developed, and future and emerging skills requirements.

The ECTQG is a biennial European Colloquium on Theoretical and Quantitative Geography. This year the conference will be held either virtually or in a hybrid format in Manchester on November 3-5, 2021.

Digilego is organizing a special session titled Facilitating quantitative methods pedagogy: Digitalization, innovation, and future needs.