E-Learning 

The concept of a university education is becoming increasingly complicated as students need to integrate more and more elements into what society will perceive as a comprehensive or completed education. This places growing pressures on students in terms of time management. Helping students and scholars substantially to pursue a more nimble and service-oriented form of higher education is the emergence of the cyber-campus, or e-learning.

American Studies Leipzig pursues e-learning through the highly innovative system known as Lehrbox.de:

• All of the Institute for American Studies courses are listed over this e-learning platform.
• Faculty and staff can post reading via Lehrbox.
• Students can hand in assignments.
• Regular communication takes place.
• Chat rooms centered on assignments and themes of a course can be established.
• And students can even create their own profiles for their fellow student-colleagues if they so desire.

Lehrbox.de not only empowers students to pursue their studies more independently and flexibly, it permits students to pursue a form of cyber-community that can complement and enrich what they achieve together in the classroom.