Annette Bieniusa Inducted into the Academy of Distinguished University Teaching
Prof. Dr. Annette Bieniusa has been inducted into the Academy for Excellence in Higher Education (Akademie Ausgezeichnete Hochschullehre e.V.). At RPTU, Bieniusa teaches software engineering with a focus on programming distributed systems—and places great emphasis on integrating theory and practice early on: “It’s important to me to equip students with the skills that are actually needed in software development to create effective, secure, and efficient systems.” She plans to use her membership in the academy to engage in intensive exchange with other faculty members.
Annette Bieniusa brings many years of expertise in innovative university teaching—including being awarded the Rhineland-Palatinate State Teaching Prize in 2024. When designing her courses, she places great emphasis on ensuring that students acquire the necessary tools to develop into mature, competent, and responsible individuals “who will later play an active and formative role in research, industry, and society.”
One of her current teaching projects involves the development of an e-learning environment that specifically interacts with large language models (LLMs). This project uses LLMs that—as Annette Bieniusa explains—“regularly produce poor or incomplete results in order to encourage students to critically question and verify the generated content.”
Regarding her membership in the Academy, Annette Bieniusa hopes for an intensive exchange with other university faculty members: “I want to gain new insights, but also to contribute them myself.” After all: “Innovative teaching and its continuous development are crucial for mastering the challenges of modern higher education. In the age of artificial intelligence, we are confronted with entirely new questions regarding teaching, learning, and assessment, which we must address promptly in order to educate students who can compete on the international stage.”
About the Academy for Excellence in Higher Education Teaching e.V.
The Academy for Excellence in Higher Education Teaching (Akademie Ausgezeichnete Hochschullehre e.V.) is a nationwide network of outstanding, active faculty members. Through in-person and online formats, it creates spaces for collegial exchange, member-led initiatives, shared responsibility, and collaborative learning—with the goal of highlighting and advancing excellence in higher education teaching. The network grows in a quality-assured manner through a review-based admission process.