Happy Birthday, RWTHmoodle!
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Wow, RWTHmoodle is already two years old! On the occasion of this event, we would like to reminisce with you and give you a little preview of the future.
In recent years, digitization has also influenced the way we teach and learn: In addition to purely classroom-based courses with written scripts, as older semesters are still familiar with, digital learning concepts and course rooms are increasingly coming into focus. These are designed to complement existing face-to-face courses, make teaching interactive, and adapt learning to students’ requirements in terms of time. Read the rest of this entry »
Many countries, many languages – one EC! The IT Center EC Riddle I
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Everything was already prepared for an unforgettable European Championship when COVID-19 made it impossible to realize the event in summer 2020. But in exactly two weeks the long wait will finally be over – the European Championship 2020 has become the European Championship 2021 (officially: “UEFA EURO 2020”), but at least: It can take place despite the pandemic.
On 11.06.2021, the time has finally come and we can cross our fingers for our team again!
FOMO – Have you missed anything today?
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Who doesn’t know it: the fear of missing out (FOMO). We have been encountering this seemingly new term more and more frequently lately, although it actually refers to an age-old phenomenon of humanity. Due to IT and digitalization, FOMO is not getting less, despite networking, or maybe even because of it. Why is that? How much are you affected by FOMO and what can help against it?
Safety First – Secure logout with RWTH Single Sign-On
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Everyone who studies or works at RWTH knows it: the RWTH Single Sign-On.
This is not a dating service, but an application with which you can log in to almost all RWTH services. What is particularly charming is that you do not have to remember an infinite number of access data, but only one user name and the corresponding password.
In addition, RWTH Single Sign-On recognizes if you are already logged in to a service, for example RWTHonline. If you then log in to RWTHmoodle, RWTH Single Sign-On waves the user through directly using the underlying “Shibboleth” application.
The cooperation project “Prüfung hoch III”
Source: Stifterverband 2020
To mark its 100th anniversary, the Stifterverband for German science, or Stifterverband for short, has launched the anniversary initiative “Effect to the power of 100“. The aim is to promote the 100 best ideas for the education, science and innovation system of tomorrow.
After the application phase had been completed in mid-September 2020, an expert advisory board selected the 100 best ideas (from a total of 500 applications) for the future of the education, science and innovation system. And the IT Center was among them – we reported on it in detail here on the blog.
Ever since then, a while has passed and synergies have emerged with different perspectives on the common theme, allowing for a holistic view of digital testing. Read the rest of this entry »
Coscine – The new integration platform for research data
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Coscine is a platform of the IT Center that supports researchers in working with their research data. Coscine stands for Collaborative Scientific Integration Environment. The pilot phase with the first users has started and will be used for user-oriented further development of the platform.
We are very pleased to be able to briefly introduce the platform to you. Have fun reading! Read the rest of this entry »
POP Audit: Successful Performance Optimisation and Correctness Analysis for CalculiX
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The development of new applications is becoming increasingly complex. Simultaneously, optimising these applications is gaining in importance. The Institute for High Performance Computing at RWTH Aachen University is conducting research on methods and tools for the optimisation of applications. In this process, performance and correctness analyses play a central role. These methods and tools are being applied within the framework of the EU project POP2 – Performance Optimisation and Productivity. The POP project was already introduced in a separate article. Today we would like to inform about a specific successful POP audit.
