Digitization of business processes — An OER project introduces itself

In this blog post, you will gain an insight into the work of the project team at the Uni­ver­si­ties of Göt­tin­gen and Osnabrück, which is involved in the pro­duc­tion, cura­tion and dis­sem­i­na­tion of open teaching/learning mate­ri­als as part of the MWK’s OER fund­ing for the higher edu­ca­tion sec­tor.

Busi­ness processes are an essen­tial com­po­nent of oper­a­tional value cre­ation and com­prise the link­ing of indi­vid­ual activ­i­ties in com­pa­nies. By sys­tem­at­i­cally record­ing, man­ag­ing and trans­form­ing busi­ness processes, com­pa­nies can deter­mine the sta­tus quo of the exe­cu­tion of activ­i­ties, iden­tify prob­lems and poten­tial and make sus­tain­able improve­ments.

The OER tandem project of the Universities of Göttingen and Osnabrück

The aim of the project “Meth­ods and Tech­nolo­gies for the Dig­i­tal­iza­tion of Busi­ness Processes in the Dig­i­tal Trans­for­ma­tion” is to com­pre­hen­sively address the topic of the dig­i­tal­iza­tion of busi­ness processes in com­pa­nies from both a method­olog­i­cal and an appli­ca­tion-ori­ented man­age­ment per­spec­tive, tak­ing into account cen­tral prin­ci­ples and cur­rent trends, and to make it avail­able as Open Edu­ca­tional Resources (OER). The aim is to pro­vide, test and dis­sem­i­nate an impor­tant build­ing block for busi­ness stud­ies, but also for inter­ested par­ties from other dis­ci­plines and learn­ers at uni­ver­si­ties. The two tan­dem part­ners (Uni­ver­sity of Osnabrück and Uni­ver­sity of Göt­tin­gen) are cre­at­ing two com­ple­men­tary learn­ing units that build on each other and pre­pare the topic in par­tic­u­lar for the intro­duc­tory phase of Bach­e­lor’s stu­dents in busi­ness admin­is­tra­tion or busi­ness infor­mat­ics, com­puter sci­ence and as key skills for non-busi­ness degree pro­grams.

To this end, a flipped class­room approach is pur­sued, which con­sists of online learn­ing mate­ri­als (in par­tic­u­lar so-called micro-learn­ing videos, self-study tests and exer­cises) and can be sup­ple­mented by face-to-face exer­cises at the uni­ver­si­ties. The pro­vi­sion of online learn­ing mate­ri­als enables easy dis­sem­i­na­tion and inte­gra­tion at other uni­ver­si­ties. The face-to-face exer­cises are also doc­u­mented in hand­outs so that they can also be eas­ily inte­grated at other loca­tions. The indi­vid­ual learn­ing units can also be com­pleted inde­pen­dently as online courses with­out face-to-face exer­cises.

People involved in the project

Osnabrück location

- Prof. Dr. Uwe Hoppe
- Nicole Draxler-Weber
- Julia Kuhn (stu­dent assis­tant)
- Sarah Kruse (stu­dent assis­tant)

Location Göttingen

- Prof. Dr. Matthias Schu­mann
- Dr. Sebas­t­ian Hobert
- Michael Groth
- Marie Alfken (stu­dent assis­tant)
- Finn Gat­zlaff (stu­dent assis­tant)

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This arti­cle by the Tan­dem project team at Osnabrück Uni­ver­sity and the Uni­ver­sity of Göt­tin­gen is — unless oth­er­wise stated in indi­vid­ual con­tent — licensed under CC BY (4.0)