Kategorie: ‘Students’
Congratulations: Best Paper Award
Dr. Tim Weißker and Dr. Daniel Zielasko receiving the Best Paper Award at the 29th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology Source: Jun.-Prof. Dr. Benjamin Weyers
On October 10, 2023, Dr. Tim Weißker and Dr. Daniel Zielasko won the Best Paper Award for their work entitled “Stay Vigilant: The Threat of a Replication Crisis in VR Locomotion Research” at the 29th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology. The paper presents a meta-analysis of research on navigation techniques in virtual reality and analyses the associated empirical user studies with respect to their reproducibility. The results indicate a strong need for improvement within the research community, from which the authors derive specific guidelines for the conduct and presentation of future research.
Dasi – Onboarding with the data cab
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On October 10, the time had come: The data cab visited Siegen .
But what is “onboarding” anyway? And what is the data cab?
RWTHmoodle: New Features and Plugins in Pilot Operation
Source: Own illustration
Since 2019, RWTHmoodle has been part of everyday teaching and learning and is constantly being further developed to make E-Learning easier for students and teachers.
This winter semester, there are four new features as well as two plugins that can be tested in pilot operation by interested teachers.
In September, all professors and academic staff received an e-mail to find test subjects for the new plugins. At the end of the pilot phase, an evaluation will be conducted to decide whether the plugins will be used permanently.
You can find out which pilot plugins and innovations these are in the
following blog post.
#RWTHWelcomeWeek for the Winter Semester 23/24 – We Were There!
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The IT Center was once again part of this year’s Welcome Week for the winter semester 2023/2024 at RWTH Aachen University! Especially international students have the opportunity to get acquainted with the services and processes of RWTH Aachen University.
Unlike previous events, this time there was no live digital lecture on our IT services. But don’t worry, there was still a video. The Welcome Week team changed the concept and adapted it to your wishes. In addition, we were live on site at the Freshers’ Fair in the Audimax on September 27, 2023, and were on hand to offer advice and support to new students.
In the following blog post, we will tell you about the Freshers’ Fair, the newly designed information video about our IT services, and also give you some help for a successful semester.
IT Center Satisfaction Survey 2023 – Your Opinion Counts!
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This week our IT Center Satisfaction Survey 2023 started. This survey is aimed at all people who use the services of the IT Center.
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My IT Center – Your Gateway to Our Services
Source: Own illustration
As the central IT facility of RWTH Aachen University, the IT Center provides you with a wide range of services and applications. But in the midst of these diverse offerings, it can be quite a challenge, especially for new users, to keep an overview. This is precisely where My IT Center comes in.
Certification of the Quality Management System
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The IT Center at RWTh Aachen University is home to various divisions that are responsible for different subject areas. Among others, the Networks department, which is responsible for the operation and renewal of the centrally managed communication networks of RWTH.
Central tasks include the provision of a reliable and high-performance communications infrastructure to safeguard the university’s research, teaching and administrative operations.
In order to relieve the employees, a quality management system (QMS) was introduced, which was accredited according to ISO 9001 for the first time this year.
You can find out in this blog post what exactly the QMS is used for and how the ISO 9001 certification took place.
Welcome to the Winter Semester 2023/2024!
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The city is filling up with young people, the leaves are slowly starting to turn colorful. This can only mean one thing: A new winter semester is about to begin!
We welcome you and wish you a successful winter semester 2023/2024!
Studying has become much more digital in recent years. This means that people are not only learning from books but also a lot on their laptops, tablets and smartphones. Are you already connected?
Extensions of RWTHonline
Source: RWTH Aachen University
RWTHonline: The campus management system of RWTH supports the organization of studies and teaching. RWTHonline accompanies and helps you throughout the entire student life cycle, from application to graduation, and runs through many important processes with you. In addition to the more than 47,000 students, many of the RWTH’s 10,000 employees also use the system to organize their studies and teaching.
However, RWTHonline was not created at RWTH itself. It was not developed by RWTH Aachen University, but is based on a software solution developed at the Technical University of Graz. The instance running at RWTH Aachen is called RWTHonline.
Until now, the system could not be extended by ourselves, which meant that certain processes could not be tailored to RWTH Aachen University. There, one then had to be satisfied with makeshift solutions. This will now change!
For certain extensions to the system functionality, RWTH is now no longer dependent on the provider, but can implement these extensions itself in order to advance the digitization of workflows and processes at RWTH.
May We Introduce “Digitale Hochschule NRW”
Source: DH.NRW
The cooperation community “Digitale Hochschule NRW“, short: DH.NRW, consists of 42 universities and the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is a groundbreaking initiative aimed at advancing digitization in higher education teaching in North Rhine-Westphalia. It is a strategic response to the growing importance of digital technologies and their potential for innovative teaching and learning formats. RWTH Aachen University and FH Aachen are also part of it.
In the following blog post, we will introduce you to DH.NRW in more detail and explain what its tasks are.
