Experience
Future Innovation Space: The future at your fingertips
Trying out and experimenting with future digital possibilities for schools - this is what the Future Innovation Space (FIS) in Tübingen makes possible. Visions for learning can be tested here in a practical way, making them tangible and experienceable.
The digital learning world of the day after tomorrow
What is the Future Innovation Space?
The 300 square metre experience and experimentation space at the Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien (IWM) investigates how state-of-the-art technologies and visions for educational science utilising digitally supported learning can be optimally used and networked.
The future of teaching and learning is to be brought to life and the use of the latest technologies in the classroom of the future is to be developed in practical ways. The resulting advantages, but also the challenges associated with the new technologies, should be tested and considered in advance. In this way, didactically well thought-out and profitable applications for new technologies can be designed in advance.
A place to learn and experiment
The Future Innovation Space was created in the context of the ‘Kompetenzverbund lernen:digital’. It serves as a living lab for research and provides teachers with further digital qualifications and includes the TüDiLab, a co-operation between the Tübingen School of Education and the Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien (IWM). The FIS was launched in 2023.
Our goal
The aim of the Future Innovation Space is to demonstrate the possibilities for the sensible use of digital technologies in the classroom and at the same time to identify future challenges in teaching and learning. Researchers and (prospective) teachers can test out the latest digital possibilities together and exchange ideas. As they collaborate in this way, the opportunities and risks of the new technical possibilities should become clear - as well as the social and ethical implications.
The Future Innovation Space consists of three components:
Digital Teaching Lab (TüDiLab)
The Tübingen Digital Teaching Lab (TüDiLab) is a modern, well-equipped classroom where teachers have been able to try out digital teaching and scientists have been able to research it since 2016. The TüDiLab not only has smartboards, laptops and tablets, but also eye trackers, a 360-degree camera and precise sound technology. IWM researchers and prospective teachers from the Tübingen School of Education explore here how they can optimise the potential of modern technology.
More information about the Digital Teaching Lab
Mixed Reality Lab
The new technologies make it possible to move through learning worlds independently and thus approach the learning worlds individually. At the same time, this process presents challenges, for example, in the optimal design of 360-degree videos and virtual realities as well as the accompanying categorisation of the virtual experience.
More information about the Mixed Reality Lab
Multi-Touch Lab
In the Multi-Touch Lab, interactive experience, and a haptic and playful learning experience is possible on multi-touch surfaces. Swiping, zooming and sliding on multi-touch tables makes knowledge tangible. On a multi-touch table, for example, images can be broken down into details by hand, and different documents can be viewed and compared at the same time. This helps the learner to bring the material closer to oneself in the truest sense of the word - and thus to understand it more deeply and remember it better. Multi-touch tables also offer exciting opportunities for discovering and working on content together in small groups.
More information about multi-touch tables
"We benefit from the latest technical possibilities, particularly those involved in adaptive learning, i.e. learning that is customised to individual needs. For example, AI offers opportunities that can be tested in the Future Innovation Space."
Prof. Dr. Peter Gerjets, Project Manager Future Innovation Space
Innovative technologies
The Future Innovation Space presents future cutting-edge technologies, i.e. pioneering innovations for the future of digital education. For example, big data, the use of artificial intelligence, virtual realities and sensors will be tested for possible future teaching scenarios based on existing experience, findings and tools.
Participation welcome!
Are you a teacher or prospective teacher and interested in gainingsome insight into these possibilities? Then please get in touch with us.
The Future Innovation Space not only offers a living lab for research but is also a place of immediate experience for (prospective) teachers where they can experiment with new technologies themselves and exchange ideas with researchers.
Your contact
Project Manager Future Innovation Space
+49 7071 979-222b.brucker@iwm-tuebingen.de"If you are curious and would like to experience the future of teaching and learning for yourself in our Future Innovation Space, please get in touch."
Dr. Birgit Brucker, Project Manager Future Innovation Space
