Shaping Openness

in Education, Science and Society

Axel Dürkop

“In digital times, the openness of our society depends more than ever on the technology we develop and use. Therefore free software, open education and a decentralized internet are for me the fields of action that I actively engage in.”

Experience & Skills

Subjects

The Culture of Free/Libre Open Source Software, Open Education, Open Educational Resources (OER), Open Science, Privacy in the Digital Age, Internet Health, Ethics & Technology, Software Architecture

Coding & Technologies

Linux, Python, JavaScript, Django, Vue.js, GitLab, Docker, Static Site Generators (Pandoc, Jekyll, Hugo, GitBook), Microcontrollers (Arduino, micro:bit, Raspberry, Calliope)

Coaching & Facilitation

Design of Open Socio-technical Systems and Workflows in Research and Education, Workshops on User Story Mapping, Learning Design and Engineering, Teaching in Higher Education

Selected Projects

Shaping Openness

Shaping Openness - The Show on Code, Architecture and Tools in Research and Education

Inventor and showmaster

Zocurelia

A browser tool to increase the fun of reading together in distributed communities

Inventor and developer

Future | Society | Technology

Ethical and political questions on current technical topics and trends

Co-Initiator, teacher and developer

Project

Modern Publishing

Research and Development Project on Collaborative Writing and Publishing

Team leader, system architect and developer

JOIN

Research project on the strategic positioning of federal states and universities in teaching and learning

Developer, programmer of visualizations, project manager

Insights

Multiauthor blog about the digital field of experimentation at TU Hamburg

Co-initiator, author and administrator

tekethics | Ethics and Technology. Some Issues

Current Topics in Technology from an Ethical Perspective

Co-initiator, concept co-developer, software architect and developer

Hack[a|er]space

Weekly open space for the playful and fearless exploration of hard- and software

Concept co-developer, facilitator and active participant

Hop-on

Helping newcomers find their way in the vocational and academic system in Germany

Co-initiator, software architect and developer

GitLab Instance at TU Hamburg

Instance open to the public for collaboration in Open Education and Open Science projects

Initiator, evangelist, administrator and facilitator

Recent Publications

Axel Dürkop

18.09.20 Dürkop, A., Meinecke, I., Boxhammer, T., Hagen, F. & Krewinkel, A. (2020). Single-Source-Publishing mit Swapfire und OJS. Open-access-tage 2020 (online). Gehalten auf der Open-Access-Tage 2020, Bielefeld. https://doi.org/10.15480/882.2902

Single-Source-Publishing with Swapfire und OJS

The poster shows a workflow for single-source publishing: Article text, metadata and references are submitted in OJS, reviewed (1) and, after acceptance, converted to Markdown by using Pandoc (2). The text corpus is cleaned up manually (3), the references are prepared for the use of the submitted BibLaTeX file (4). Metadata is captured with Netlify CMS (5), HTML, PDF and other formats are continuously produced with GitLab, Docker and pandoc-scholar (6). Final files are uploaded and published in OJS (7).

Axel Dürkop

05.08.20 Kuladinithi, K., Fisser, L., Fuger, K., Stolpmann, D., Vatandas, Z., Timm-Giel, A. et al. (2020). Online teaching of project-based learning courses: issues, challenges and outcomes. ACM SIGCOMM 2020. https://doi.org/10.15480/882.2863

Online teaching of project-based learning courses: issues, challenges and outcomes

This paper aims to share the experiences during online teaching of two different project-based learning courses at Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) during the COVID-19 (Corona) pandemic 2020. The success of project-based learning courses relies on how freely and openly students can discuss their task-oriented problems in small teams. The most effort-intensive part of the online teaching of project-based learning is to enhance collaboration among students. This paper highlights the challenges we faced, how we overcame some of these challenges, and our lessons learned. Additionally, the results from a student survey conducted during the semester show the students’ feedback on online teaching.

Axel Dürkop

25.02.20 Dürkop, A. (2020). Zocurelia - Zotero Curated Reading Lists Annotated. Zenodo 2020, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3687258