Teaching education is a cornerstone of The Hochschule Niederrhein. Our students acquire the skills they need to meet the challenges of tomorrow. The Hochschule Niederrhein therefore supports its lecturers in continuously developing the quality of studies and teaching education. The media didactics (digitaLe team) and university didactics departments work closely together and have developed a joint advisory, continuing education and support programme.
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...supports you in combining professional and subject-specific expertise with didactic knowledge and subject-specific didactic imagination, giving you the opportunity to supplement your view of teaching education with a higher education didactic perspective.
...is your contact for media didactic questions in teaching education. We provide individualised advice and support in the faculties, step by step from the teaching idea to feedback. We support the use of digital tools in media didactics and promote student- and skills-orientated (digital) teaching throughout the university.
Teaching education does not have to be developed in your own little room - let's design your teaching education together: skills-oriented, student-centred, needs-based and future-proof. We address your individual concerns with our support services - feel free to contact us.
We offer a wide range of counselling topics for your individual questions about (digital) teaching, learning and examining. We provide advice on university and media didactic issues, digital tools and trends, examination didactic challenges and applications for external and internal teaching funding programmes. Every individual request is welcome.
Developing and revising your own teaching can often be time-consuming - we support you in the faculties step by step with your (digitally supported) teaching projects: from the initial idea to conception, preparation and implementation, right through to feedback and evaluation.
Qualitative feedback on teaching supports the systematic reflection of your own teaching education. We offer you various formats of qualitative feedback on teaching education, such as a teaching observation or a TAP (Teaching Analysis Poll). With the TAP in particular, you receive re-registration from students during the semester about what helps them to learn, what aspects they find obstructive and what concrete suggestions they have for improving the course. To carry out a standardised course evaluation, please contact the Evaluation Coordination Office.
The digitaLe team can provide you with student assistants (eTutors) to support you in the implementation and supervision of digitally supported teaching projects. The eTutors are deployed in the faculties and provide support in the design, implementation and monitoring of digital teaching/learning scenarios. Since the 2018/2019 winter semester, it has been possible to qualify student assistants in (media) didactics (in cooperation with the tutoring programme).
The design and development of student- and competence-oriented degree programmes is central to the successful learning of students, which is why we support faculties in the development and further development of competence-oriented curricula, for example in the form of moderated curriculum workshops.
In the BMBF project "Public Understanding of AI through transdisciplinary teaching education", students work in heterogeneous, interdisciplinary projects together with practice partners on problems in the field of artificial intelligence. As a result, they acquire application-oriented AI skills and are empowered to actively and positively shape technological and social change.
We are convinced that the exchange between colleagues and the visualisation of good teaching provides impetus for the further development of one's own teaching education. We promote dialogue and networking among lecturers and invite them to make good teaching practice visible to their colleagues.
Do you want to combine your academic expertise with didactic knowledge? Would you like to refresh and advance your knowledge of methods and teaching/learning scenarios or try out the use of new tools in teaching education? Then take a look at our wide range of continuing education courses, handouts, information materials, etc. Here you will find workshops to help you plan and design your teaching education, self-study courses, guidelines and the programme for newly appointed professors.
Whether you are a newcomer or an "old hand" in teaching education - with the Le/Ni: Spring and the Le/Ni: Autumn, we offer a compact qualification programme twice a year together with the eLearning team. We focus on your interests, current topics in (media) didactics and current university didactic quality standards (dghd). Take the opportunity to gather inspiration or try out the didactic use of selected digital tools.
You can find our current offers in the blog under #Qualification
We attach great importance to providing excellent support for our specialists. This also includes providing didactic support for newly appointed professors as they enter the world of teaching. In cooperation with Aachen University of Applied Sciences and Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences, we support you in your first year of teaching at The Hochschule Niederrhein with the newly appointed programme. The programme consists of three components: the "Academic teaching skills" course, teaching coaching and the teaching portfolio.
Le/Ni: digital - Impulses for digital teaching, learning and examining supports you in planning and implementing your digital and hybrid teaching and examination scenarios and provides an opportunity for collegial exchange. Here you will find information, impulses and short self-study units on various media-didactic teaching-learning scenarios. The eExaminer Forum section focuses in particular on digital examiners. If you have specific questions or tips for other colleagues, please post in the forum. The Moodle course is offered by the digitaLe team and the eLearning team.
We summarise particularly common questions and challenges in teaching education in handouts and guidelines to support you in your day-to-day teaching. For example, we have already created handouts on planning and designing digital teaching as well as examination scenarios in the digital space. There is also a guide for step-by-step planning of digital and hybrid courses as well as further checklists and self-study courses.
Do you have a need for further training on a specific topic that addresses many lecturers in your faculty? Then we would be happy to organise individual and needs-oriented in-house workshops for your faculty, regardless of the topic, whether it is the testing of a specific tool, the discussion of new examination formats or the competence-oriented redesign of modules.
In cooperation with all universities of applied sciences in NRW, the hdw nrw network offers a variety of higher education didactic workshops to develop and expand teaching skills and enables cross-university exchange with colleagues. Detailed information on the services offered by hdw nrw and the annual programme can be found here: www.hdw-nrw.de.
In an increasingly digitalised world of learning and work, digital key competencies are indispensable for social and professional participation. The Hochschule Niederrhein has set itself the goal of preparing its students, lecturers and employees in the best possible way for the associated new challenges in their studies and everyday working life. In the #Digitalkompetenz.nrw project, an online self-assessment is being developed on the topic of "Digital key competencies at universities", which makes it possible to assess one's own digital competencies and to further advance them. This will be linked to a catalogue of advisory, training and further education offers on digital key qualifications, which will enable the search for individually suitable offers based on the test results.
The Hochschule Niederrhein supports you in trialling new formats and innovative teaching-learning settings with various teaching funding lines. The funding lines address different aspects and are announced at different times of the year. You can find an overview of all previously funded teaching projects in our blog under #Funded.
The Hochschule Niederrhein's annual teaching project funding programme supports lecturers in implementing new teaching ideas.
This year, the focus is on teaching projects that contribute to the further development of teaching, learning and examining through the use of generative AI.
With this teaching grant, The Hochschule Niederrhein strengthens the (further) development of teaching education in the sense of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and contributes to the implementation of the university development plan and the sustainability strategy. The funding supports a teaching project that aligns the selection, justification and design of the teaching-learning context with the goals of sustainable development and aligns competences, content, teaching-learning settings and feedback formats accordingly. Projects that address social challenges in teaching education and focus on empowering students to help shape the sustainable development of society in a responsible manner are eligible for funding.
The "SoTL: HSNR - Researching your own teaching" funding line strengthens evidence-based reflection on teaching education using the Scholarshipof Teaching andLearning (SoTL) approach. The funding supports lecturers in the implementation of projects that examine students' learning in their own teaching education in a hypothesis-led manner and make the results accessible to the teaching community.
The competition focuses on the symbiosis of participation and innovation in teaching development. It supports ideas that are developed jointly by students and lecturers and promote student participation and innovation in teaching education. Once a year, new ideas are sought to further develop teaching education and learning together at The Hochschule Niederrhein.
We will be happy to advise you on external funding lines that are advertised outside the HSNR and for which you can apply. These offer the opportunity to try out new teaching/learning scenarios and to network with colleagues (across) regions.
The project "AI in teaching, learning and examinations" strengthens the responsible use of artificial intelligence in studies, teaching education and examinations.
It supports lecturers and students in the reflective use of AI and develops innovative approaches to integrate artificial intelligence into courses and examination formats in a meaningful way.
We support teaching development both at the micro level (e.g. individual courses), the meso level (e.g. curriculum development) and at the macro level: university development. We do this by supporting strategy processes, moderating internal processes, acquiring externally-funded projects and getting involved in boards and committees. It is also important to us to share the results of our work.
With our expertise and experience, we support strategic processes within the university and act as sparring partners for faculties and university management in strategic issues and processes. We advise on current challenges in the field of studies and teaching education and participate in the development of university-wide guidelines, policies and development plans.
Acquiring third-party funding for the university in order to continuously drive innovation in teaching education is an important part of our task. Successful acquisitions in recent years have included the projects HD@DH.nrw (DH.nrw and MKW NRW), PEDaL HN (MKW NRW), KI-transdisziplinär (BMBF), #Digitalkompetenz.nrw (DH.nrw and MKW NRW) and SoTL:HN (Freiraum 2025, Stiftung Innovation in der Hochschullehre).
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We publish the findings of our work in articles and contributions for the lecturer community and the higher education didactics community. In this way, we contribute to the transfer of knowledge and to current research discussions.
Current publications
NIU supplement on university didactics
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