.digital office - facilitating and encouraging digitalization!

The .digital office coordinates the implementation process of the digitalization strategy and is responsible for facilitating and designing implementation measures and specific digitalization projects. In doing so, the .digital office supports the institutes and departments in the implementation of these projects and ensures the interconnecting of existing digital competences at TU Wien in order to avoid redundancies and to ensure cost efficiency.

Digital Survival Café

[Translate to English:] Hängebrücke, Jungel

Take part in the Digital Survival Café and geht yourself connected you with contact persons for all digital issues at TU Wien! Every second Thursday, experts answer your questions on topics related to collaboration, digitalization, web presence, information security and much more. Topics and dates are kept up to date at TU coLAB, opens an external URL in a new window.

Digitalization projects

[Translate to English:] Digitalzation projects at TU Wien

The .digital office coordinates, supports and connects various projects within the scope of the digitalization strategy.

Objectives of the digital transformation

Digitalisation Objectives

TU Wien's digitalization strategy  has defined objectives in the areas of research, studying and teaching, administration and infrastructure which are to be realized. These objectives can be condensed into a number of core topics: digital skills, smart campus, data, analytics & prediction as well as platforms and networks.

Collaboration

[Translate to English:] collaboration

Digital tools can be used to make working together with colleagues and in teams a lot simpler. At TU Wien, various new services are currently developed to facilitate collaboration even more.

Events

[Translate to English:] Information update events

.digital roadshow and .digital updates - jointly designing the digital transformation

Team

[Translate to English:] .digital office team

You can find your contact persons at the .digital office here

Current .dblog posts

The .digital blog offers posts on interesting topics on digitalization matters in general and the digital transformation at TU Wien in particular:

Accessible videos in teaching - A .dcall 2021 project in detail

Accessibility enables all people - with and without disabilities - to use services, facilities and objects in everyday life without restrictions. Currently, a project as part of eTUcation is being funded by the Rectorate in the form of a .dcall 2021 project. The project deals with the provision of accessible lecture videos.

[Translate to English:] Lehrvideos barrierefrei Digitalisierunsgprojekt TU Wien

Accessibility at TU Wien not only affects the infrastructure and classroom teaching, but also scenarios created by the digitalization of lectures. Depending on the type of impairment, there are different requirements that must be taken into account when creating lecture videos. In addition to accessibility, important information on data protection and copyright will also be included.

A .dcall 2021 project in detail

As part of the .dcall 2021 project "Providing accessible lecture videos", a guide is created to present lectures with an overview of the process of creating accessible lecture videos - from planning and recording to post-processing and subtitling. Thereby, lecture videos can be created in a barrier-free and inclusive version more quickly and easily and thus enable all students to use digital lectures.

Furthermore, videos and instructions will be developed in the course of the project and made accessible to lecturers at TU Wien. An e-learning course will also be available to lecturers so that they can complete it at their own pace.

As a final task, a pilot lecture will incorporate the guidelines and recommendations into its lecture concept.

What does the term “barrier-free lecture” mean?

A lecture is barrier-free if it can be accessed and used in the usual way, without particular difficulties and generally without outside help, by people with disabilities. Accessibility is also established in law in the equal rights principle in Article 7, Paragraph 1 of the Federal Constitutional Law.

TU Wien is committed to equality and inclusion of people with disabilities and/or chronic illnesses and has set itself the goal of creating a framework for the equal participation of people with disabilities and/or chronic illnesses in all teaching, research and administration.

The .dcall 2021 project is the first building block to develop general guidelines on the subject of "accessibility in teaching" and to help  design the lectures at TU Wien even more accessible and therefore more inclusive.