Teaching history in a way that does justice to all levels of learning and prepares pupils for the increasingly complex, digital world presents teachers with major challenges. For example, the growing spread of fake news, modern right-wing extremism, anti-Semitism and war propaganda on social media, which are developing a life of their own, not least due to chatbots, are creating new challenges. Added to this are the algorithms that too often lead to monoperspective information bubbles. However, developments in the digital space not only bring challenges, but also new opportunities to obtain information, to work collaboratively or to support learners individually, which need to be dealt with.

The digital:KLUG_{eschichte lehren} training course aims to show history teachers ways in which these new demands can be dealt with “confidently” through the targeted promotion of historical skills. A training concept has been developed that is designed as blended learning and consists of two face-to-face training courses and six synchronous online training courses, the so-called e-sessions. Sufficient time is provided in each of the e-sessions to process the main points and for gradual adaptation in the participants' own lessons.

The digital:KLUG_{eschichte lehren} training series is a continuation of the KLUG concept (2018-2021), which has been evaluated as effective: On the one hand, the basic training focuses, which combine findings from educational psychology with those from inclusion pedagogy and relate them to history didactics, will be retained. On the other hand, it responds to the need for optimization identified by the KLUG study (2018-2021) and places an additional focus on promoting “digital sovereignty” in history lessons. digital:KLUG_{eschichte lehren} also uses a control group design to test the effectiveness of the training, including whether history lessons improve from the students' perspective.

digital:KLUG_{eschichte lehren} is funded by the BMBF as part of the competence network lernen:digital.