Continuing Education in Engineering Pedagogy for Teachers Successfully Completed
Participants in the continuing education series held at HSZG were presented with their certificates at a ceremony.
For the third time, our university hosted a continuing education program on engineering pedagogy for faculty members. In total, more than forty participants enhanced their skills in this area.
The goal of the training was to further expand the engineering education expertise of our university staff in the STEM faculties and external instructors. The series of events covered all relevant topics in engineering education as well as the guidelines of the Engineering Education Knowledge Society (IPW) and the International Society for Engineering Pedagogy (IGIP).
Due to the participants’ work and residential locations spread across all of Saxony and the pandemic situation, the certificate presentation ceremony was held virtually. Among the first to offer congratulations were our university’s rector, Professor Alexander Kratzsch; Professor Gudrun Kammasch, president of the Engineering Pedagogy Scientific Society; and Professor Steffen Kersten from the Technical University of Dresden.
“On behalf of the entire administration of Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences, I would like to extend my warmest congratulations to the participants. Participation in the continuing education program in engineering pedagogy for instructors has a significant impact on the quality of teaching, and this is greatly appreciated by the students in particular.” Professor Alexander Kratzsch
”“I am delighted that the participants have successfully completed the continuing education course and that we, as the Society for Engineering Education, were able to contribute our ideas to it. I hope that we will all draw great strength from this course and this gathering to shape the future. All the best to you all from the bottom of my heart!” Professor Gudrun Kammasch
”"I would like to thank the university management, Karl-Heinz Reiche, Daniel Winkler, Ronny Freudenreich and everyone else involved for the very good cooperation. I would be delighted if we could continue this in the future." Professor Steffen Kersten
”The continuing education series was designed in cooperation with the Institute for Vocational Education at the Technical University of Dresden and builds on the continuing education project “Engineering Didactics at Saxon Universities: ‘e-Didact’” from 2010 to 2013.
The following modules were completed:
- Module 1: Introduction to Engineering Education (4 AE)
- Module 2: Group Dynamics and Teamwork (28 AE)
- Module 3: From Knowledge to Skills—The Instructor-Centered Planning Framework as the Foundation for a Successful Lecture/Seminar (16 credit units)
- Module 4: Testing and Assessment (24 AE)
- Module 5: From Knowledge to Skills—Developing Tasks with Increasing Difficulty as the Basis for Successful Exercise Design (16 AE)
- Module 6: From Skills to Insights – Designing Inquiry-Based Learning as the Foundation for Successfully Structuring Internships, Projects, Course Papers, and Theses (Student-Centered Planning Framework) (16 AE)
- Module 7: Creativity Techniques and Problem-Solving Methods (24 AE)
- Module 8: Fundamentals of a requirements-based module description—defining program objectives, defining program content, and writing module descriptions (16 AE)
- Module 9: Laboratory Pedagogy (16 AE)
- Module 10: Communication (24 AE)
- Learning Portfolio (16 AE)
You can find more information here: https://www.hszg.de/ipwb
- Karl-Heinz Reiche and the entire team at the Career Services Office of the Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences for the successful design and implementation of the continuing education course, particularly under pandemic conditions, as well as
- Professor Steffen Kersten, Professor Gudrun Kammasch, Timon Umlauft, and Thomas Hönel for their contributions to the development and successful design of the continuing education course
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