.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:

Digitalization and student success: the PASSt project

Students should be supported throughout their entire student life-cycle as individuals and as well as possible by their university. Planning and forecasting tools to improve teaching and study processes are currently being developed.

[Translate to English:] Darstellung eines Diagramms

PASSt – which stands for "Predictive Analytics Services for Student Success Management" – is one of the projects that is being funded as part of the tender for "Digital and social transformation in higher education, opens an external URL in a new window" by the Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Research. Led by TU Wien in conjunction with its partners JKU Linz, University of Graz and WU Wien, the project team is developing digital planning and forecasting tools to improve teaching and study processes.

Navigation system for study success

Using current analytics methods and technologies, the university's wealth of data should be used to acquire useful knowledge about student behaviour and study success. Digital tools for different target groups are emerging within the project. The focus is naturally on the students, whose study progress and success needs to be more transparent. This will thus enable specific measures to be offered to become more successful through study – the vision is for a navigation system for study success. 

Naturally, the processing of personal data for study success is a central issue to be considered from the outset with regard to data protection and ethical considerations. This issue is thus already one of the project's first work packages, with the aim not only of complying with legal standards but also of developing a generally applicable code of practice that enables students to have the best possible transparency for the processing of their data.

Visualised information for university management

It is not just individual students who should benefit. Assessment activity, i.e. the number of students who pass each academic year with at least 16 ECTS credits, is also a significant influencing factor in university financing. As well as other key performance indicators for university management, PASSt should also develop forecasting models that can be used to gain a better estimate of this number of assessment activities – and thus indirectly of future budgets. Information about study success should be prepared and presented clearly (through "dashboards"). It should be possible to derive measures to improve the study setup easily. In future, these dashboards should also support academic authorities, such as academic deans and academic commissions, with well-prepared data.

Project launched in summer

The project began in June 2020 and will continue until mid-2023. The inter-university project team is already working hard on its first work package, which concerns the review of university data models and specification of model variables for the forecasting models.