As Martin Luther once said: “If you preach about the article of justification, the people sleep and cough; but if you begin to speak of histories and examples, they prick up both their ears,…
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Guest Articles Teaching Tips
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If it was not obvious before, it definitely became so during the COVID-19 pandemic: social relatedness is an important element in teaching at university. Practical examples from the project “Supporting self-learning phases in lectures…
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Agility, excellence and innovation – these are the key terms for the planned Bavarian Higher Education Innovation Law [Bayerisches Hochschulinnovationsgesetz (BayHIG)], considered the most modern law on higher education in all of Germany. What…
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A handshake, raising the eyebrows, a tone of voice which says something – these are all examples of body language. Everyone uses these non-verbal signals with the person they are communicating with, consciously or…
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“Teaching material must be formulated in a comprehensible way. Everyone agrees with this demand and yet the complaints about difficult texts never end.” This statement from Steffen-Peter Ballstaedt (1991, p. 19) is more than…