Innovative teaching and learning concepts: Funding line Innovation Plus

The state of Lower Sax­ony funded more than 300 projects for the devel­op­ment and imple­men­ta­tion of inno­v­a­tive teach­ing and learn­ing con­cepts in five fund­ing rounds between the 2018/19 and 2023/24 aca­d­e­mic years. The ini­tia­tive focused on the fur­ther devel­op­ment of teach­ing mod­ules or indi­vid­ual ele­ments thereof. Fol­low­ing suc­cess­ful pilot­ing, the new con­cepts were anchored in the long-term teach­ing pro­gram of the respec­tive uni­ver­sity. In par­tic­u­lar, the fund­ing line addressed the cre­ative poten­tial of uni­ver­sity teach­ing: by cre­at­ing time for flex­i­bil­ity, teach­ers were given new oppor­tu­ni­ties to fur­ther develop the qual­ity of their courses.

Focus of the Initiative

The funded projects came from dif­fer­ent dis­ci­plines and cov­ered a wide range of top­ics. They were pri­mar­ily aimed to

• imple­ment a uni­ver­sity-wide strat­egy for inno­va­tion in teach­ing,
• intro­duce new uni­ver­sity teach­ing con­cepts and mea­sures,
• develop or imple­ment new teach­ing meth­ods for “large-scale” classes,
• develop con­cepts for deal­ing with the increas­ing diver­sity of stu­dent cohorts,
• pro­mote inter­na­tion­al­iza­tion and inter­dis­ci­pli­nar­ity in teach­ing,
• strengthen the prac­ti­cal rel­e­vance of under­grad­u­ate courses,
• imple­ment dig­i­tal teach­ing and learn­ing meth­ods,
• inte­grate research into teach­ing,
• intro­duce inno­v­a­tive and/or com­pe­tency-based forms of assess­ment, or
• pro­mote self-directed and inquiry-based learn­ing.

Publication of the project results on twillo

The expe­ri­ences and con­cepts gained from the projects were eval­u­ated by the Cen­tral Eval­u­a­tion and Accred­i­ta­tion Agency (ZEvA). The results of the eval­u­a­tion served as a basis for the project man­agers to com­pile a project report, which they could send to the twillo team if they wanted it to be pub­lished.

In order to ensure the sus­tain­abil­ity of the project ideas beyond the fund­ing period, make them acces­si­ble to other teach­ers, and enable their use in other con­texts, the project teams were also given the oppor­tu­nity to share the project mate­ri­als they had devel­oped on twillo.

The fol­low­ing table pro­vides an overview of the projects that have decided to pub­lish their project results and/or mate­ri­als.

Veröffentlichung der Projektergebnisse

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