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The lecture "German as a second language for teacher training students of the humanities" was undertaken for the first time in the summer semester of 2015 and was attended by approx. 390 students. The weekly lecture was split up into 12 thematic face-to-face sessions. The subject-spanning tutorial that belonged to the module and was only one weekly semester hour long took place on a bi-weekly interval. The face-to-face as well as contact time of the students is split up witin within this large lecture group with little chances of interaction and the indeed smaller tutorial groups which though still had an average group size of 40 students.
During the eraly early planning stages of the semester a blended learning structure was developed for the module of the subject group of the humanities which served two focal points. On the one hand the extensive contents of the module should be presented in a structured way and enough material provided for self-study purposes (cf. Illustration 1). On the other hand supportive online interaction offers were to be made. For the first goal repetitive structures were set up within the Blackboard course regarding thematic learning modules from the lecture. For the support of the tutorial 10 work groups were set up within the framework of the lecture course (cf. Illustration 2) in which the students filled in wikis with lecture protocols and reading excerpts during the course of the semester. In addition, in the respective work groups the tools e-mail and forum were available.
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Illustration 1 - Screenshot: Learning modules within the lecture structure
illustration Illustration 2 - Screenshot: Wok groups within the lecture course
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- Making tasks provided for the collaborative wiki entries more precise
- Systemizing feedback for the wiki entries
- Providing models for properly worked-out wiki entries (thematizing text types "protocol", "excerpt")
- Structuring face-to-face sessions that build on online activities in a stronger and more sequential manner (offering protocol + excerpt + exercises as a task)
- Maintaining / creating free spaces for mutual reflection eve even though suitable online structures are in place
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