Support in developing study programmes
There are many reasons for developing a degree programme: Do you want the programme to grow, develop further and absorb new impulses? Perhaps there are exciting topics that students should learn in the future? Or perhaps there are challenges - be it in terms of student satisfaction, an increased drop-out rate or an upcoming accreditation? Then the degree programme team is faced with the challenge of further developing the degree programme in a future-oriented way.
Dialogues and networking
Teaching Eats
The RDI promotes cross-faculty exchange on teaching topics. This should make it easier for lecturers to support each other and develop together - in the spirit of a lively teaching culture at Reutlingen University.
All teaching staff and those involved in teaching are cordially invited to exchange ideas on university didactic topics in a variety of formats and at different times - whether in person or online, in compact or detailed form. And because the best exchange often takes place over good food, the following applies: Whether breakfast, lunch or tea - learning tastes better together!
Olive, Wine and Policy
The RDI promotes dialogue on higher education development. New perspectives are discussed and current developments are critically reflected on the basis of current publications on higher education development, higher education didactics and higher education policy (e.g. the Accreditation Council, the Higher Education Forum on Digitalisation). The exchanges are cross-faculty and cross-status group.
Support with applications for third-party funding Teaching
Acquiring third-party funding for teaching projects is a relevant and important way of making your own teaching and the university's teaching structures innovative and sustainable. The resources acquired make it possible to try out new approaches and to network in the community of designers for innovative university teaching. The RDI provides support in identifying suitable application options, combining (initial) ideas with didactic approaches and designing projects worthy of funding.
Supporting newly appointed professors at the start of their teaching career at the university
New at the university? In the newly appointed staRTyourProfessorship programme, the RDI accompanies and supports the area of didactics in the "Teaching module". Here, newly appointed professors are supported in the many challenges they face in their (usually new) role as a university lecturer - through individual counselling, reflection on teaching skills, job shadowing and regular group coaching sessions.
Guidance and support in teaching
Support with didactic questions
The RDI enables exchange on individual concerns and a resonance space for personal university didactic challenges. Some relevant formats are mapped in "Teaching Nuggets". These bundle a wide range of support and guidance services for questions, challenges and individual needs in teaching. These include mentoring discussions, work shadowing, the teaching portfolio, kick-off events for degree programme development, specialist input and individual counselling topics. Further information can be found in the respective Teaching Nuggets.
Didactic training and cooperation with GHD and Neckarconnection
In order to specifically promote the development of individual teaching skills, the RDI provides support by
- Identifying individual further education goals and educational strategies in order to expand university didactic expertise.
- Advice on suitable further education programmes offered by the Gesellschaft für Hochschuldidaktik (GhD) and Neckarconnection.
- Teaching observations, which can also be recognised for the Baden-Württemberg Certificate for University Didactics.
- Organisation and implementation of further training courses to achieve individual development goals (if not available via GhD and Neckarconnection).
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