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Education in 2030 will undergo huge changes with generation Z in the classroom. The “real digital natives” will influence economic structures as well as the educational system due to their online behaviour and increased use of technology. Teachers at the tertiary level have to be prepared for this generation, especially when integrating social media in their instruction. They have to be aware of the main differences between web writing and paper writing when it comes to blogs, wikis, e-portfolios and threaded discussions in online forums. As every single person constitutes a public digital identity in social media, teachers have to know online writing competencies in order to take responsibility for their own online performance and those of their students, especially within the increasing debate of fake news. The ancient principles of truth and ethics in online media are more than ever the reliable basis for collaborative work. The EU funded project within Erasmus+, “Future-proof your classroom – teaching skills 2030”, elaborates on these competencies in order to equip teachers with digital reading and writing skills in a blended-learning course.

Based on social-psychological and motivation theories, well-crafted interventions have proven remarkably effective to improve educational outcomes in higher education. The intervention we will present in this paper focuses on promoting motivation and performance in financial accounting courses. It aims at reducing class-related boredom which is commonly experienced by students and has an impact on their learning engagement and achievements. Two university courses on financial accounting have been subject to a stimulating intervention, a short lecture in a field unrelated to accounting. The study found a hugely beneficial impact on the dropout rates as well as the average grades particularly for younger (18 to 20 years) full-time students and a somewhat smaller positive impact on the average grades for older (25 to 30 years) part-time students.

Scheitern im Gründungsprozess wird als negativ wahrgenommen, birgt aber für Entrepreneure und möglicherweise Dritte, wie bspw. Studierende, Lernpotential. Zur Verarbeitung der Erfahrungen des Scheiterns sollen gescheiterte Entrepreneure u. a. Anderen davon erzählen. Die Erzählungen können bei eigens dafür konzipierten Veranstaltungen oder online von Studierenden angehört werden. Dabei stellt sich die Frage, inwiefern diese Erzählungen als Quelle von Lernanlässen genutzt werden können. Um diese Frage zu beantworten, wird eingangs das Phänomen des Scheiterns erläutert (u. a. Cope 2011; Ucbasaran et al. 2013). Den besonderen Schwerpunkt des Beitrages bilden die Theorien zu den möglichen Lernerfahrungen der Zuhörenden, wie bspw. das Lernen am Modell (u. a. Bandura 1977), das Lernen von Vorbildern (u. a. Wyrwich et al. 2015) und die Attributionstheorie (u. a. Aronson et al. 2014). Aufbauend auf der theoretischen Diskussion wird ein möglicher Einsatz und dessen Wirkung diskutiert. Das Ergebnis des Beitrags stellt ein mögliches Forschungs- und Lehrkonzept dar.