The Scausländer project: Online student newspapers as a university calling card and inter-cohort cohesion building tool

This reflective article discusses Scausländer, the non-assessed online student newspaper project I introduced to level 6 final-year students in German at the University of Liverpool (UoL). The project addresses strategic needs in languages through its student ownership and its publicizing of student...

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Published inDeveloping Academic Practice Vol. 2025; no. June; pp. 1 - 5
Main Author Magedera-Hofhansl, Hanna
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Liverpool University Press 01.06.2025
Subjects
digital adeptness
cohort building
employability skills
authentic assessment
student success framework
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ISSN2732-5725
2732-5725
DOI10.3828/dap.2025.3

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Summary:This reflective article discusses Scausländer, the non-assessed online student newspaper project I introduced to level 6 final-year students in German at the University of Liverpool (UoL). The project addresses strategic needs in languages through its student ownership and its publicizing of students’ language proficiency in an authentic format, hosted by students on commercial platforms outside the university. In this article, I reflect on the pedagogic interventions developed to leverage the project’s flexibility allowing it to enter all levels of study in German over multiple years and potentially be extended across other language and non-language subject areas. This article was published open access under a CC BY-ND licence: https://creativecommons.org/licences/by-nd/4.0/.
ISSN:2732-5725
2732-5725
DOI:10.3828/dap.2025.3