I was busy this semester with the conversion of the module ‘Nexus Engineering – Water Soil, Food and Energy’, which is offered as a PBL in various Master’s programs as a WP in the 2nd semester and was chosen by 70 – 90 students per semester in the last 3 years. This semester again, more than 90 students initially registered in StudIP, of which 75 still kept the ball rolling.
In addition to the preparation for the production of lecture videos, which in the sense of asynchronous learning, are regularly made available on a course-internal WordPress blog, it is a great challenge to conduct a project-based course completely online. Initially, we planned to limit the number of participants to 40 to allow for online supervision of the project groups over several weeks. After the demand for the course was so high again, we decided to cover a part of the exam with a written exam and only conduct smaller group projects in the last third of the semester.