Why the educational institutions are stuck in a loop when it comes to digitality – and how they can break the cycle

As part of discussions of the subject of digitality, we often fail to consider how it is changing our culture. When talking about the future of education, we tend to reduce digitality to online teaching, virtual lessons, digital learning and online exams.

We neglect to discuss how digitality changes education as a phenomenon at the core of our culture, and how the digital transformation affects teaching and learning. Can our traditional concept of education keep up with the requirements of an increasingly digital culture?

The answers can be found in education – we can approach the topic in an open, curious, investigative, experimental manner and consider it from different perspectives. We need to learn, acquire more knowledge, and take the entire process and transformation into consideration, including cultural and economic developments. From this starting point, we can try to adapt our learning and teaching methods to the new digital age.

We need an educational transformation: It is time to enter a new discourse on education in the context of digitality – a discourse on how we can redefine education instead of just reorganising it. Speaker Dr Christoph Schmitt (Bildungsdesign) will give us his insights.

The 17:15 Colloquium offers a platform for further education and discussion of topics related to libraries, museums and archives. The formula: a 30-minute lecture + a 30-minute discussion + small-group discussion = inspiration for our daily working lives.