An online course on scientific work* is offered for students through the promotion of self-study. The course materials were created by the office for Learning and Teaching at Fulda University of Applied Sciences as part of the digLL project (Digitally Supported Teaching and Learning in Hesse) and are licensed under Creative Commons 4.0 CC BY.

The online course is available in different forms.

1. Self-study course, which can be started at any time and completed at your own pace. You can enrol here with the enrolment key: SLF_WiA_SLK or register here and then you will receive an information letter with instructions on how to complete the course.
2. Accompanied course by a learning scout with a duration of 10 weeks and a fixed group with which you work together. The starting dates for the accompanied course can be found here and a registration is required.

• Chapter 1: Rules of good scientific practice
• Chapter 2: (Non-)scientific knowledge
• Chapter 3: From topic identification to research question
• Chapter 4: Literature research
• Chapter 5: Evaluating sources
• Chapter 6: Evaluating papers
• Chapter 7: Acquiring competence in scientific work
• Chapter 8: Outline and the functions of chapters
• Chapter 9: Citation
• Chapter 10: Plagiarism, affidavit, copyright
• Chapter 11: Formalities, scientific writing style

If you are a teacher or employee at Fulda University of Applied Sciences or another university and are interested in using this course, please contact Debora Rieser.

Further information on the concept and didactic design.

* Important information:
Unless stated otherwise, the language of instruction is German. This includes educational videos, texts, exercises and lectures as well as all other used content (e.g. links)