Didactics

We will use the following digital media that is important in today’s communication and integrate it into our virtual online course:

The virtual interactive course will be structured as follows:
(1) Each session will be started with a virtual Zoom-presentation of 30 minutes and a subsequent interactive discussion between the instructors and the students of also 30 Minutes. Breakout sessions shall be created in Zoom to give the participants room to discuss the topics afterwards and to interact with one another.
(2) The instructors’ Zoom presentation will be recorded and broadcasted via YouTube afterwards so that the students can independently recapitulate and discuss the seminar contents.
(3) After each Zoom session, the instructors write a summary and publish it on a seminar blog (www.philocast.net)
(4) The recent posts of the blog will be distributed via a seminar-app for smartphones.
(5) As part of their virtual seminar attendance, the students shall write small papers on topics of the seminar that will be integrated into the seminar wiki. The wiki articles will serve as the basis for the students’ final seminar paper. The wiki entries will be connected via hyperlinks so that they constitute a comprehensive intranet. The students will be given the opportunity to discuss their papers as part of the wiki, and to comment on other wiki articles. This will help the students to prepare and improve their final paper.
(6) The virtual seminar shall be accompanied by online quizzes via Moodle and H5P that allow the students to self-assess their knowledge acquired so far.
(7) At the end of the semester, the students will write their final paper on selected topics of the seminar. The paper will be graded by both instructors. If the students agree, their final paper can also be published either on the seminar blog or on the seminar wiki in order to share their knowledge to other people.
(8) In the course of the semester, we will organize an interactive workshop in cooperation with the Data Analytics Laboratory of the ETH Zürich where all virtual students will be able to experience the philosophical and social relevance of deep learning in concreto.