The goal of university teaching is achieve optimum learning for “all” students. At the same time, this poses the greatest challenge. Optimum learning is not necessarily reflected by good grades but by the integration of new knowledge in the students’ own understanding. Students who learn optimally also concern themselves with the course topics taught when they are outside the course as well, and they connect them up with the knowledge they already have and with their daily lives.
In the fifth episode of our podcast, Birgit Hawelka is talking to Mari Murtonen about the topic of collaborative pedagogical practices to support pedagogical competence in the work community.…
Even though there are very few who would wish to go back to the time during the COVID-19 pandemic when teaching was only done online, many students and teachers no longer want to give…
With a teaching philosophy, you can reflect on your teaching in a structured way. This reflection is an essential part of the development of teaching expertise. At the same time, it serves to externally…
In the third episode of our podcast, Dr Birgit Hawelka talks to Prof. Dr Christoph Brochhausen-Delius, Professor of the Year 2021 (Category Natural Science/Medicine) about, among other things, how he manages to maintain his…
