Karsten Lensing

Volkshochschule Dortmund

The article discusses the challenges and the potential approaches of competence-based programmes for higher education institutions, starting at their inception in the Bologna process. It focuses particularly on curriculum transformation and implementation of action-orientated learning concepts. Consequently, the article takes stock of recent learni...

In the course of the megatrend digitalization, artificial intelligence has recently been receiving a new wave of attention. Within the production environments of the future, engineers and skilled workers will be reliant on information gathered from AI-based assistance systems while developing data-based solutions for complex issues of work. In this...

Der vorliegende Beitrag befasst sich mit den qualifikatorischen Auswirkungen von KI-Assistenz auf das Tätigkeitsspektrum der Beschäftigten im produzierenden Gewerbe. In einem ersten Schritt setzt der Beitrag die Themen Industrie 4.0, künstliche Intelligenz und digitale Assistenz in Bezug zu einer zukunftsorientierten Gestaltung der beruflichen Bildu...

Der Beitrag widmet sich technischen und didaktischen Entwicklungslinien, aus denen sich Perspektiven zur Integration von Künstlicher Intelligenz im Umfeld hochschulischer Lehr-Lernlabore ableiten lassen. Ausgehend von einer Desk Research zu den technologischen Entwicklungslinien der KI, den Funktionen digitaler Assistenzsysteme und aktuellen Nutzun...

Disruptive technologies, individualized products and minimum lot sizes result in new challenges concerning the ability to change for production systems. The accompanying growing share of information and communication technologies in the manufacturing sector leads to new competence requirements and changed competence profiles. These again are the ba...

Das Labor als Raum des praxisorientierten Lehrens und Lernens ist in der Hochschullehre gerade in den technischen Fächern ein zentraler Bestandteil der Curricula. Untersuchungen zeigen, dass sich das forschende Lernen im Labor positiv auf die Kompetenzentwicklung auswirken kann. Allerdings bedarf es hierfür der Beachtung didaktischer, organisatoris...

Der vorliegende Beitrag setzt sich mit dem viel diskutierten Phänomen Industrie 4.0 aus technikdidaktischer Perspektive auseinander. Ausgehend von den technologi-schen Grundbezügen des technisch-produktiven Wandels werden die damit einher-gehenden Entwicklungen beruflicher Facharbeit bilanziert. Hierbei wird insbeson-dere auf das Kompetenzkonstrukt...

The paper reviews an approach within vocational training that makes use of the audit principles to create awareness and responsibility for sustainable development within corporate structures. First, company-adaptable courses are carried out to underpin the chances for business development regarding sustainability. Subsequently, the instructors intr...

Makerspaces in the field of Engineering Education may serve as open labs for hands-on engineering and learning about new technologies, e.g., additive manufacturing. Being accessible for members of engineering departments as well as for other members of universities, ‘makers’ from various disciplines and technology experts meet one another. While ex...

Ingenieurinnen und Ingenieure werden in der digital vernetzten Arbeitswelt vor umfassend veränderte Anforderungen gestellt. Kommunikations- und Kooperationsfähigkeit, selbstbestimmtes und selbstorganisiertes Handeln sowie Kreativität zeichnen die Ingenieurinnen und Ingenieure der Zukunft aus [vgl. Hartmann, 2017; Pfeiffer et al., 2016]. Die Entwick...

The absence of real-world experiences is a lasting challenge in the field of higher engineering education. Therefore, learning-scenarios, which are highly reliant upon the students’ powers of imagination alone, would not be promising at all. Particularly with regard to the increasing complexity of information-, material- and workflow networks in a...

The usage of different kinds of media is part and parcel of teaching and learning processes in higher education. According to today’s possibilities of information and communication technologies, mobile devices and app-usage have become indispensable for a big share of the population in everyday life. However, there is little empirical evidence on h...

The megatrend digitalization is desired to serve as a competitive advantage for the industrial site Germany. Here, disruptive technologies, individualized products and minimum lot sizes result in new challenges concerning flexibility and the ability to change for production systems in an increasingly turbulent market environment. Cyber-physical pro...

Within the last years the demand for intercultural awareness and intercultural competences among the working force in engineering grows significantly. Even if engineers more than other professions have always been working in international settings, the situations of international collaboration in engineering work increased. Moreover, strategy paper...

Im täglichen Leben der Studierenden nehmen mobile Endgeräte eine zunehmend wichtigere Rolle ein.

A concept for a Manufacturing Technology Online Course, which combines the MOOC approach and the use of a remote laboratory is presented. Hence, this online course is a combination of a MOOC-concept and a physically existing but tele-operatively usable experimentation laboratory for real engineering experimentation. Developing this online course ca...

The usage of different kinds of media is part and parcel of teaching and learning processes in higher education. According to today’s possibilities of information and communication technologies, mobile devices and app-usage have become indispensable for a big share of the population in everyday life. However, there is little empirical evidence on h...

Nowadays, university students are facing a large number of highly diverse media, including conventional books as well as online-based mobile applications - all used to support learning. Especially the internet with connected social media services or e-learning possibilities induced significant changes in society and in the landscape of higher educa...

In the past years European economic and employment policies increasingly underline the strategically important role of higher education institutions (HEIs) in boosting Europe’s innovation potential through supplying highly skilled labour [1]. Two key priorities are particularly emphasized: The first is to embed entrepreneurship into higher educatio...

In the past years European economic and employment policies increasingly underline the strategically important role of higher education institutions (HEIs) in boosting Europe’s innovation potential through supplying highly skilled labour. Two key priorities are particularly emphasized: The first is to embed entrepreneurship into higher education cu...

The usage of different kinds of media is part and parcel of teaching and learning processes in higher education. According to today's possibilities of information and communication technologies, mobile devices and app-usage have become indispensable for a big share of the population in everyday life. However, there is little empirical evidence on h...

Nowadays, university students are facing a large number of highly diverse media, including conventional books as well as online-based mobile applications — all used to support learning. Especially the internet with its connected social media services or e-learning possibilities induced significant changes in society and in the landscape of higher e...

Sowohl Daniela Schmitz als auch Dominik May und Karsten Lensing haben in ihren Lehrveranstaltungen bereits "mobile learning" eingesetzt. Wie sich mobile learning sinnvoll umsetzen lässt, was bereits im Vorfeld bei der Planung berücksichtigt werden muss, und in welche Fallen man leicht tappen kann, zeigen sie sehr anschaulich in ihrem Beitrag.