Hochschulübergreifende Digitale Lehr‑/Lernkonzepte zum Geschäftsprozessmanagement – Herausforderungen und Lessons Learned

The Covid 19 pandemic and the corresponding “lock-downs” have brought digital teaching at universities further to the fore. The experience gained over the past years and decades in e‑learning and blended learning by higher education institutions is helpful, but in most cases still insufficient for the purely digital teaching that is now required. During the winter term 2020/2021, the University of Münster and the South Westphalia University of Applied Sciences held an online course on “Fundamentals of Business Process Management” as part of their respective bachelor’s degree programmes in Wirtschaftsinformatik (Information Systems). The lecture served as preparation for an international Winter School on the topic of the same name. The content was based on a recognised textbook. For the online lecture, corresponding video material prepared by the authors of the textbook and curated by the lecturers was used. While regular virtual feedback rounds (video conferences) were offered at the University of Applied Sciences to answer potential questions of the students, the course at the university was designed as purely online. The examination was taken at both institutions as an open book online exam via the respective teaching platform. The corresponding tasks were created by the lecturers in a division of labour, first on their own teaching platform and then transferred to the other. In this article, we report on this teaching module, which was carried out across the universities. Building on the experiences of the lecturers and the feedback from the students, we explain the challenges and lessons learned. We discuss possibilities for further development and give hints for the future design of corresponding courses.