The fundamental question arises in university teaching as to what extent written forms of examination, such as homework, represent an appropriate examination format with the use of ChatGPT (and comparable chatbots) as " tools" in the preparation of seminar papers and theses.
The project "Podcasts as a digital examination format" deals with the opportunities and limitations of an alternative examination method: the conception and production of a podcast sequence on a scientific topic. The aim of the teaching research project is to use podcast (episodes) as an examination format in courses and to examine the progress in competence achieved in this context through accompanying research following the course on the basis of social science approaches (surveys, focus groups). At the end of the project, the results of the teaching research are to be published in a scientific journal and transferred as "good practice" in workshops of the 'Servicestelle LehreLernen' at the University of Jena.