The interdisciplinary nature of the program provides a deep understanding of the impact of AI on societies worldwide.
Study where you are!
Distance learning at the Media University relies on innovative online technologies and flexible learning formats.
With interactive tools and virtual project work, it enables practice-oriented studies that can be optimally integrated into your everyday life.
MU offers two distance learning degree programs in the Humanities department.
About Distance Learning
All e-learning events are recorded and can therefore be accessed at a later date. This allows students to stay up to date if they have missed a course.
The degree programs work with Canvas, one of the leading learning management systems. On the Canvas platform, students can find information about their courses, lectures, assignments, announcements and their grades. They can also upload files and exchange information with their fellow students and lecturers.
In addition, virtual lectures are held using avatars in Horizon Workrooms via Meta Quest 2 Headset.
We use the World Clock Meeting Planner to find out which times work best for all students and teachers from around the world.
This is taken into account when designing the timetable.
Canvas LMS
Course content, lectures, audiovisual media and assignments are delivered online via the world’s best learning management system, the LMS Canvas.
MS Teams webinars
The course is mainly based on e-learning courses. These are 90-minute webinars in which communication takes place via webcam, voice chat and text chat. Our lecturers have been specially trained for our study programs by professional webinar and LMS experts.
In the MS Teams webinars, students can actively participate and give presentations online as well as discuss what they have seen or read. They can also watch recordings of the daily lectures at any time. The screen sharing function is mainly used in video editing courses. It enables students to discuss individual steps of video editing directly with their professors and lecturers.
Virtual seminar rooms
The Visual and Media Anthropology and Artificial Intelligence and Societies degree programs are two of the few degree programs worldwide that already offer courses in Horizon Workrooms with the Meta Quest 2 headset. Students and lecturers meet in Horizon Workrooms using the Meta Quest 2 headset and their avatars with hand tracking technology. They also undertake excursions and research in immersive 360° worlds and investigate the opportunities, risks and cultural and economic significance of these virtual environments.
Video lectures with generative AI avatar technology
Our degree programs use Synthesia.io software to offer our graduates and lecturers state-of-the-art generative AI avatar solutions for program coordination and innovative video lectures with individually designed and proprietary avatars.
