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Educational App Creation for the Cathedral in Freiberg

An Interdisciplinary Project Seminar

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This project seminar aims at creating and evaluating a manual for interdisciplinary projects as part of a learning process. Working together, pedagogues and students from different disciplines within the humanities and sciences of different universities assess tools and recommendations for successful collaborations while developing an app for the visitors of the cathedral in Freiberg. As part of the project, the students gain expertise in project management and apply their theoretical knowledge to a real object and assignment. The introduction to techniques from other disciplines as well as the requirements needed to create an app for users unfamiliar with the cathedral and basic principles of art history and linguistics is a true challenge which complicates their work for the app. The seminar provides an option for students to gain practical experience before entering the job market. The outcomes and contributions serve as a reference. The results of the project seminar and the manual may be assigned to other interdisciplinary projects.

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    Cindy Kröber & Sander Münster

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  1. University of North Texas , DENTON, Texas, USA

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  2. Deakin University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    Dirk Ifenthaler

  3. Curtin University, School of Education Curtin University, Perth, West Australia, Australia

    Demetrios G. Sampson

  4. Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University), Lisbon, Portugal

    Pedro Isaias

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Kröber, C., Münster, S. (2016). Educational App Creation for the Cathedral in Freiberg. In: Spector, J., Ifenthaler, D., Sampson, D., Isaias, P. (eds) Competencies in Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership in the Digital Age. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30295-9_19

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