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Hester Street

People-Focused City Building

When speaking of urban planning, many think of policymakers, architects and engineers. Hester Street, a nonprofit based is New York City, thinks of people. Their goal is to recenter urban planning, design and development on communities and residents, the people and places for which cities are built.

Project DEAL

Germany Leads Shift Toward Open Science

The higher education and research institutions of Germany believe science should not be locked behind paywalls. Through nationwide agreements with two of the world’s largest academic publishers, they have joined forces in a consortium known as Project DEAL to enable open publication of German research and restructure the financial streams around scientific publishing.

Interview with Dr. Kathrin Breuing

The Future of Knowledge Sharing

Dr. Kathrin Breuing is Independent Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Economics at the University of Konstanz (Chair of Business and Economics Education, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Thomas Deißinger). She held a substitute professorship in Business and Economics Education at the University of Hohenheim/Stuttgart. Her research interests include knowledge work, digital transformation and workplace learning in the 21st century. In an interview we chat about work and COVID-19, demographic changes, the German vocational model and more.

Schools and Universities Cautiously Reopen

The Challenges of Learning and the Pandemic

The struggles surrounding education and COVID-19 have been two-fold: first, schools and universities struggled to rapidly digitize education; now the same institutions are reckoning with how to safely reopen.

ApoQlar

Mixed Reality, Holomedicine and the Future of Healthcare

Mixed- and augmented reality have come a long way since Pokémon Go. These technologies, which overlay digital content on top of physical reality, are now being used in fields as varied as retail, tourism, medicine and education.

aula

Shaping School Together

In recent years, digital developments in education have become an increasingly important and pressing topic. Many educational institutions are in the early stages of digital learning and are beginning to implement new digital concepts. This is one of the reasons why Marina Weisband launched the project aula – Schule gemeinsam gestalten in 2014.

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