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Teaching in pandemic times:

Digital versus on-site?

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Since the beginning of the summer semester 2020, we decree in Saxony from the end of November 2021
unfortunately had to forego any presence in lectures, forced the well-prepared lecturers back into purely dig-
tutorials and even practical courses due to the pan- ital teaching, so that disillusionment and frustration

demic. With the firm intention of making more face-to- on both sides of the cathedron could not be avoided.
face teaching possible again for our students in the win-
ter semester 2021/22, we have pulled out all the stops So what lessons can be learned from the past months?
to develop and use new hybrid teaching formats within And can digital teaching replace on-site teaching in the
the framework of the hygiene rules that have been set. future? As part of the internal evaluation, we conducted
Thus, despite the spacing rules in the lecture halls, we an anonymous survey with both students and teachers

were able to offer face-to-face teaching for a large pro- in order to obtain as open an opinion as possible. In the
portion of students at the beginning of the semester, following, we would like to present two replies that give
while at the same time streaming or recording the lec- a good impression of the challenges of teaching in 2021
ture events at great technical expense. However, the and can serve as examples for the multitude of feedback.

rising incidence figures and the subsequent emergency

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