Digitalisierte Lehre und Nachhaltigkeit: Eine Umfrage in pandemischen Zeiten

The global COVID-19 pandemic does not only focus on health and social issues, but the topic of digitalization as well. Universities have to (re)act very fast and demonstrate their adaptability: Within shortest time, the university life was reduced to a minimum. Simultaneously, the courses were transferred into digital formats. The following questions were surveyed by this questionnaire at the Chemnitz University of Technology between mid-July and the end of September 2020: How was this transformation done, by which advantages and disadvantages were they accompanied, how sustainable are these processes and how the future of higher education can look like. The survey addressed both university staff and students. Approximately 370 complete responses were analysed qualitatively and with the help of descriptive statistics. The results show a high degree of diversity in terms of behaviours and responses to pandemic digital teaching and learning. Digital teaching and working as well as learning from home offer multiple benefits and at the same time challenges - as does learning and working at the university campus. On the one hand, working and learning from home is perceived as enriching and overwhelming on the other - and this does not only differ from person to person, but also simultaneously within an individual. The flexibility associated with digital teaching is appreciated - at the same time, digital teaching is linked with a great deal of self-organization and few social contacts, which is perceived by some students as excessive demands. There are striking gaps in knowledge and action when it comes to linking sustainability and digitization. The results also reveal aspects for the further development of digital teaching.