EduToolsIT for teaching and studies.
Welcome to the EduTools website!
The university of Basel offers and supports a variety of digital tools for learning and teaching, which are all featured on this page. Within the framework of legal requirements, you are free to select and use suitable digital tools for your teaching. The term 'EduTools' refers to tools curated by the university for teaching purposes, regardless of subject. They are usually licensed for campus-wide use by university members. If you have any questions about these tools, the IT Service Desk will be happy to help. You can reach them via the internal extension 7 14 11 or by email at support-its@clutterunibas.ch.
Criteria for selecting any additional tools can be found on the Web portal Digital Skills on the page Getting started with software literacy. Under Getting started with alternative tools section primarily describes open-source alternatives to common and/or standard applications that are relevant in an academic setting.
Resources
New website: EduSpaces
The term 'EduSpaces' encompasses the university's central learning locations, with a focus on learning and teaching rooms for face-to-face and hybrid teaching. On these pages, lecturers will find information and numerous links to university offerings related to teaching rooms and hybrid teaching.
Information about the university's central learning rooms for students is also compiled here.
The further development of learning spaces on campus has been a focus of the Educational Technology Office for many years. Previous results, current projects, and how university members can get involved are presented on the Teaching and Learning Space Development page.
Blended learning: implementation options at the University of Basel
Learn how you can use EduTools to implement your course with both synchronous and asynchronous phases in the self-study resource Blended Learning: Implementation Options at the University of Basel (in German). This comprehensive guide provides an introduction to the blended learning approach, illustrates it with various course formats and then focuses on the use of the University of Basel's digital tools in the asynchronous and synchronous teaching phases.
Video in teaching: scenarios and infrastructure at the University of Basel
The self-study resource Video in Teaching: Scenarios and Infrastructure at the University of Basel (in German) is available to all members of the University of Basel. It is intended to give lecturers an overview of the possible and didactically meaningful use of videos in teaching, and also to provide information on how videos can be produced in the appropriate quality in the classroom at the university, at the workplace, or at home.
