Hybrid Take-Home Labs for the STEM Education of the Future

The acceptance of digitally supported teaching has increased strongly in recent years - and not only due to Corona. In the STEM subjects, online labs are increasingly being used to ensure that the requirements for availability, usability and granularity of the offerings are met. This ensures the connection of theoretically taught fundamentals and their application and deepening in the form of practical courses in the basic subjects. However, practical experimentation and the associated haptic learning is somewhat lost as a result. The Hybrid Take-Home Labs project aims to develop and test the basis for practical support of learning processes in STEM subjects, which allows students to conduct even complex virtual and remote-controlled laboratory experiments from home using their own resources, combined as needed for student-centered teaching to meet the requirements of future-oriented competence-based learning. It is one of nine projects supported by the Thuringian Ministry of Economics, Science and Digital Society and the German Stifterverband.