DiBis

A responsible approach to digitalization is highly relevant to society. This becomes particularly clear when looking at the topic of "generative text AI" or the topic of "digitalization of the financial sector". Research in both areas is developing rapidly due to technological advances. Both topics also have a direct impact on the general public, as they change the way society interacts and acts.

Research projects are a first nucleus in which such "new" knowledge is created in empirically tested form. These provide the first valuable results on digitalization topics currently being discussed in society (so-called digital innovations). Easy and quick access to this knowledge by teachers and students offers great potential for further advancing digital education in schools. This new type of knowledge is already being made accessible to a broad public through science communication in the form of project results (e.g. podcasts, comics, anthologies). However, this knowledge often does not find its way into schools because it is not available in the form of digital teaching materials or as an open educational resource or is not identified and found as such.

The ZEVEDI ad hoc project "DiBiS" analyzes and models a process that deals with the distribution of research results as digital teaching materials. The subject matter is freely accessible digital content from research projects which, in order to be used in the classroom, must be identified and prepared by teachers as digital teaching materials. Such content is already available on the topics of "Generative text AI" and "Digitalization of finance". This content therefore serves as an illustrative basis for analyzing and modeling a distribution process.

As part of the ad hoc project, a target process for the distribution of research results as digital teaching materials is being developed. This illustrates the phases of distribution as well as the stakeholders involved in each phase, their roles, tasks and outputs. The process integrates blueprints for the identification and preparation of research results as digital teaching materials in various phases. These blueprints serve as train-the-trainer elements for the co-creation of digital teaching materials. Against this background, the ad hoc project aims to promote a basis for the transfer of research results (i.e. freely accessible content for science communication in the form of podcasts, anthologies) as digital teaching materials in Hessian schools.

As part of an empirical-qualitative study, a situation and stakeholder analysis is carried out. Using the example of the two subject areas mentioned, types of provision of research results are classified, requirements for the provision and use of open educational resources and requirements for their curricular embedding are analyzed. As part of a survey study, interviews (target group: teachers, study seminars) are used to analyze the challenges and needs of teachers with regard to the preparation and curricular embedding of Open Educational Resources in lessons at Hessian schools. Based on this, socio-technical requirements for a distribution process are derived, which deals with the generation and dissemination of research results as digital teaching materials. Co-creation mechanisms for train-the-trainer blueprints will also be developed. These serve to provide teachers with suggestions for the use of research results as open educational resources for school lessons (secondary level 2). For this purpose, a blueprint for the identification and a blueprint for the preparation including curricular embedding as digital teaching materials will be designed.

The project will be funded and supported by the Centre for Responsible Digitalization (ZEVEDI) as an ad hoc project in the period 2024 - 2025.

• Prof. Dr. Jan Marco Leimeister
• Dr. Sarah Oeste-Reiß