"Competent in Teaching": Registration for Summer School Is Now Open

The DigiKompASS project (Making Everyone’sDigitalSkillsVisibleand Enhancing Them) invites you to the “Competent for Teaching!” Summer School from September 18–20, 2023. The event will take place in-person, in a hybrid format, and online, and is aimed at early-career faculty members as well as, on September 20, all faculty members at RPTU.

This interdepartmental and inter-campus project of the University of Koblenz and the RPTU has been working since 2021 to sustainably enhance the digital competencies of all individuals involved in teaching at both universities. It is funded by the Foundation for Innovation in Higher Education Teaching.

The Summer School begins in person on September 18 at Villa Denis. The keynote address, “Future Skills: Learning Paths and Competencies of Tomorrow,” by Prof. Ulf-Daniel Ehlers will be streamed digitally. Approximately 60 early-career faculty members at RPTU will have the opportunity to exchange ideas on the criteria for effective higher education teaching and to discuss ideas and concepts for further developing their own teaching in three workshops.

On September 19, early-career faculty members from the participating universities can choose from 16 digital professional development sessions on topics such as competency-based pedagogy and methods, hybrid pedagogy and learning environments, e-learning, and methods for reflecting on their own teaching.

On September 20, the Summer School at RPTU will open its doors to a broader audience to provide information and facilitate discussion in Landau on the current state of digital and hybrid teaching.

Following a keynote address by Prof. Gabi Reinmann (University of Hamburg) and Prof. Mandy Schiefner-Rohs (RPTU) on the topic “Linking Locations: Hybridity in Teaching as a Didactically Motivated Digital Linking of Locations,” participants can choose from four discussion sessions. The program covers a broad spectrum of digital-hybrid teaching: cross-location synchronous teaching, practical and lab components in digital-hybrid teaching, and teaching in the flipped classroom.

The complete Summer School program, the registration link, and further information about the DigiKompASS project can be found here: https://zhdl.rptu.de/zhdl/projekte/digikompass/summer-school