Dr.-Ing. Carsten S. Schröder
CEO and Co-Founder of DADB
German Academy for Digital Education
Berlin
Dr.-Ing. Carsten S. Schröder is CEO and Co-Founder of DADB - German Academy for Digital Education. The academy is a provider of an innovative blended learning system with the aim to bring German engineering to upcoming markets.
Carsten S. Schröder is an industrial engineer and has more than 25 years of professional experience in science, technology and innovation management. Joining Fraunhofer Society – Europe’s largest research organization - he earned his doctorate degree from the Technical University of Berlin. He is an honorary professor at the International Innovation Centre of Hankou University.
Carsten S. Schröder is also Managing Partner and Co-Founder of s2m - Company for Technology Transfer since 2015. Thus he is likewise active in technology transfer, technology management and technology marketing. With his investment company LAURUS CAPITAL he acts as a Business Angel and Entrepreneur —particularly focusing on hardware-oriented start-up companies.
Carsten S. Schröder has been the Founding Managing Director of acatech–National Academy of Science and Engineering. He managed this first national science academy in Germany for almost 10 years and thus established the highest-quality platform for the innovation-oriented know-how transfer between science and business. He possesses an extensive network of prominent technology experts at the highest decision-making level at universities, research institutes as well as in industry.
Higher Education in the era of digitalisation: Transformation in pedagogical approach
In tech-savvy world, where reforms are required in every sector, the education sector can’t remain untouched. New technologies require new approaches, so is the requirement of the education sector as well. In the era of digitalization, the biggest challenge in teaching is to attract students to learn and engage them with relevant content. Digitalization has not only helped to break the boundaries of learning but also made experts think to present the content in a more engaging and sustainable form.
As everybody knows, Germany trains outstanding engineers with worldwide recognition. The success of ‘Made in Germany’ is essentially based on the capabilities of German engineers, which is the result of the underlying education and training system. To participate in this - in the case of higher education -, you usually have to study at a local German university – until now. We, the German Academy of Digital Education (DADB), address this problem of “ access and engagement ” to provide access to high-quality content coming from Professors of German universities to all interested students from institutions across the globe by establishing formal academic collaboration with home institutions.
With the help of innovative technologies in high-quality video production in a digital campus environment, we facilitate the German University and industrial experts’ content accessible to students by breaking the physical boundaries, but presenting it in an engaging way is where technology comes in.
These academic collaborations are from offering our content in the form of elective or specialized courses in home university’s degree/certificate programs, delivering/co-creating content, to setting up digital learning centers and Virtual labs digitalization.
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