Module 3 - Elective module (3.3) Modern teaching prepares students to act in a media-based world and promotes their creativity, communication and critical thinking. How can teachers use digital media [...]
Past events
Past events
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Slides of the past lunch meetings can be found on the lunch meeting page
Teaching and learning with digital media
Promoting communication in teaching: CANCELLED. New date in summer term 2026 to follow.
Module 2 - Compulsory module (2.1) Communication is central to organising courses in a way that promotes learning. This includes aspects such as clarity, comprehensibility and a positive learning [...]
Stud.IP update: What will change with the new version? (Lunch meeting)
At the end of March, the University of Oldenburg will be upgrading Stud.IP from version 5.4 to 6.1. The most important new features include a revised layout and additional functions in the courseware [...]
Counselling in teaching
Module 2 - Compulsory module (2.2) Whether it's about credits, term papers or final theses, study planning or personal challenges and crises - students approach their teachers with many concerns. [...]
Basics of gender- and diversity-sensitive teaching
Module 1 - Compulsory module (1.4) Students bring different realities of life with them and have different perspectives on the content and framework conditions of their degree programme. Gender- and [...]
Generation Z - understanding our students better and designing teaching to meet their needs
Module 3 - Elective module (3.3) "The lifeworld is the horizon within which we always move." (Jürgen Habermas) Our students bring new expectations, learning cultures and digital socialisation to [...]
Planning of courses and basics of university didactics
Module 1 - Compulsory module (1.1) As a teacher, you are faced with the task of imparting in-depth knowledge and skills and providing your students with the best possible learning support. But how [...]
Competence-orientated testing and assessment
Module 1 - Compulsory module (1.3) In this two-day online workshop, we will look at what constitutes competence-oriented assessment and evaluation and relate this to our specific courses using [...]
Using the teaching portfolio to reflect on and communicate your own teaching
Module 3 - Compulsory module (3.1) Together with other lecturers and subject experts, you will explore the diversity of the teaching portfolio in the workshop. In this creative process, you will [...]
Learning with impact: Challenge-based learning as a bridge between university and practice (lunch meeting)
In order to tackle major challenges such as climate change and digitalisation, universities need practical educational formats that teach future skills and train students to become change makers. [...]
Lego® Serious Play®: Building bridges in teaching
Lego bricks can be used to support complex moderation processes, but short interventions can also open up new perspectives and stimulate reflection during courses. Participants' ideas and thoughts [...]
Appear authentic and confident as a lecturer
Module 3 - Elective module (3.3) The role as a teacher is associated with specific expectations of behaviour and actions on the part of both students and colleagues, for example when dealing with [...]
Moving university teaching - organising events with movement to promote learning (lunchtime meeting)
How can teachers activate students with movement, increase their attention and promote learning processes? Until now, university teaching has been characterised primarily by sedentary forms of [...]
Research-based learning - theoretical and didactic principles
Module 2 - Compulsory module (2.4) Research-based learning is highly valued at the University of Oldenburg and is anchored as a central concept in the mission statement for teaching. In [...]
Evaluation and feedback in courses
Module 2 - Compulsory module (2.3) In this workshop, you will learn about simple, effective ways of quickly obtaining re-registering student feedback on learning progress and the effectiveness of [...]
Visual tools compact: flipcharts, sketchnotes and cognitive maps in teaching
Module 3 - Elective module (3.3) A picture is worth a thousand words: Because they bring information to the point and arouse emotions, visualised content receives full attention. Images are easily [...]
Increase students' motivation to read and improve text comprehension (lunchtime meeting)
Reading scientific texts is one of the core competences of scientific work. This reading is not only about facts, but also about participating in the research discourse - about arguments, [...]
Intercultural Competence for University Lecturers: Tools for Handling Germany’s Increasingly International University Landscape
Module 3 – Elective module (3.3) In this course you will discuss how to provide sensitive feedback and how to help internationals to acclimatiseraise your awareness of difficulties experienced by [...]
Tutors in teaching - how to work together successfully! (lunch meeting)
Tutorials accompanying lectures are particularly well suited to preparing, supplementing, deepening and practising subject-specific study content. The student tutors fulfil an important mediating [...]
Stud.IP for beginners
The Stud.IP learning management system offers a wide range of options for organising and supporting teaching and learning at the university. It is often used to provide organisational information or [...]
Peer observation: Growing through peer feedback
Module 3 - Compulsory module (3.2 Transfer and reflection) This module is aimed at teachers who would like to reflect on and further develop their teaching skills through peer-to-peer dialogue. The [...]
Creating rules for the use of Generative Artificial Intelligence in teaching - made easy with KIKO (lunch meeting)
Students have been using Generative Artificial Intelligence (GKI) for a long time. Every teacher is faced with the task of defining clear rules for the use of GKI tools in their own courses. How can [...]
Variety of methods and promotion of active learning
Module 1 - Compulsory module (1.2) Depending on the type of course, number of students and learning objective, different methods can be used in teaching. This workshop focuses on getting to know and [...]
Scientific reading as a social process - introduction to the online tool SHRIMP
How can scientific reading become an interactive, collaborative process? One possible solution is offered by the social reading platform SHRIMP(Social Hypertext Reader & Interactive Mapping Platform). [...]
Competence-orientated testing
Module 1 - Compulsory module (1.3) In addition to subject-specific academic knowledge, students should also acquire further competences at the university that enable them to apply, reflect on and [...]
Gender & diversity in teaching-learning spaces
Module 2 - Elective module (2.2) or Module 3 - Elective module (3.3) Students bring different realities of life with them and have different perspectives on the content and framework conditions of [...]
Interactive teaching planning workshop
Module 1 - Compulsory module (1.1) Well thought-out planning forms the foundation for successful teaching. Defining clear objectives and carefully selecting suitable content and methods creates [...]
Get to know the online whiteboard Collaboard and try it out together
Collaboard provides teachers, students and staff at the University of Oldenburg with an online whiteboard via the Academic Cloud is available. This lunchtime meeting will focus on trying out and [...]
Evaluation and feedback in courses
Module 2 - Compulsory module (2.1) In this workshop, you will learn about simple and effective ways of quickly gaining an impression of your students' learning progress and the success of your [...]
Implementing feedback methods with the online whiteboard Collaboard (lunch meeting)
Feedback is an important part of courses and can be obtained in a variety of ways. In this lunch meeting, we will present various feedback methods that can be implemented with digital whiteboards. [...]
Competence-orientated testing and assessment
Module 1 - Compulsory module (1.3) In this three-day online workshop, we will deal with competence-oriented planning, assessment and evaluation by reflecting on our previous practice, impulses from [...]
Guiding students through the academic writing process
Module 2 - elective module (2.2) or Module 3 - elective module (3.3) While requirements for academic texts and assessment criteria can be clearly communicated, the writing process - the HOW of [...]
Using the teaching portfolio to reflect on and communicate your own teaching
Module 3 - Compulsory module (3.1) Together with other lecturers and subject experts, you will explore the diversity of the teaching portfolio in the workshop. In this creative process, you will [...]
Research-based learning: basics and conceptualisation
Module 2 - elective module (2.2) or Module 3 - elective module (3.3) In research-based learning, students carry out a research cycle over the course of their degree programme (in addition to their [...]
Characteristics of multicultural group work - approaches for university teaching
Small group work can be used as an activating teaching and learning method to deepen the knowledge acquired, e.g. in practical applications, while at the same time making the course [...]
Time competence and strengthening resilience for teachers
Module 3 - Elective module (3.3) Teachers at universities face a variety of challenges. They have to make decisions every day, set the "right" priorities, be adaptable and flexible and deal [...]
Peer observation: Growing through peer feedback
Module 3 - Module 3.2 (Transfer and reflection) This module is aimed at teachers who would like to reflect on and develop their teaching skills through peer-to-peer dialogue. The idea of "peer [...]
Teaching in English - Essentials
Module 3 - Elective module (3.3) An offer from Teaching and Learning in Higher Education in cooperation with the Language Centre of the UOL This course aims to prepare instructors who are new to [...]
Using individualised AI tools to make teaching more diversity-sensitive
As in the mission statement for teaching the University of Oldenburg sees itself as an open university that consciously opens itself up to a diverse student body. The core of diversity-sensitive [...]
Counselling in teaching
Module 2 - Elective module (2.2) or Module 3 - Elective module (3.3) Counselling and supporting students is an essential task for lecturers in the design of good teaching. There can be many different [...]
Planning courses with the Souver@nen toolkit
Do you have the impression that your courses could benefit from more interactivity? Does the course creation process take too long? Would you like to use different media in your seminars, but would [...]
Teaching and learning with digital media
Module 2 - elective module (2.2) or Module 3 - elective module (3.3) Modern teaching prepares students to act in a media-based world and promotes their creativity, communication and critical [...]
Variety of methods and promotion of active learning
Module 1 - Compulsory module (1.2) Depending on the type of course, number of students and learning objective, different methods can be used in teaching. This workshop focuses on getting to know and [...]
Planning of courses and basics of university didactics
Module 1 - Compulsory module (1.1) As a teacher, you are faced with the task of imparting in-depth knowledge and skills and providing your students with the best possible learning support. But how [...]
Lego® Serious Play® in teaching
Lego® Serious Play® is an innovative method that aims to promote creativity, individual approaches to topics as well as collaboration in learning and working groups. Originally developed for the [...]
Evaluation and feedback in courses
Module 2 - Compulsory module (2.1) In this workshop, you will learn about simple and effective ways of quickly gaining an impression of your students' learning progress and the success of your [...]
Artificial intelligence and academic performance: Practical advice for a transparent approach to AI (lunch meeting)
Due to high demand, there will be a repeat date How can artificial intelligence (AI) be used correctly and responsibly in studying and teaching? This question becomes even more complex when it [...]
Artificial intelligence and academic performance: Practical advice for a transparent approach to AI (lunch meeting)
How can artificial intelligence (AI) be used correctly and responsibly in studying and teaching? This question becomes even more complex when it comes to (examination) performance. How should [...]
Exchange meeting: AI in university teaching
The exchange meeting "AI in university teaching" offers a framework for listening, discussing and asking questions. From newbie to expert - everyone is welcome!
Research-based learning at the University of Oldenburg: practical reports from the natural sciences (lunchtime meeting)
The lunchtime meeting series on research-based learning offers lecturers a theoretical, didactic and practical insight into research-based learning at the UOL and provides inspiration for implementing [...]
Guiding students through the academic writing process
Module 2 - elective module (2.2) or Module 3 - elective module (3.3) While requirements for academic texts and assessment criteria can be clearly communicated, the writing process - the HOW of [...]
Research-based learning at the University of Oldenburg: experiences from practice (lunch meeting)
The lunchtime meeting series on research-based learning offers lecturers a theoretical, didactic and practical insight into research-based learning at the UOL and provides inspiration for implementing [...]
Exchange meeting: AI in university teaching
The exchange meeting "AI in university teaching" offers a framework for listening, discussing and asking questions. From newbie to expert - everyone is welcome!
AI in the teaching-learning process: meeting current challenges
An event from the series "Hochschuldidaktik-Schnack: Impulses, exchange and reflection for lecturers" Many university members are unsettled and challenged by the question of how to deal with [...]
Research-based learning at the University of Oldenburg: Introduction and support programmes (lunchtime meeting)
Research-based learning is anchored as a central concept in the mission statement for teaching at the University of Oldenburg. When students learn through research, they carry out a research process [...]
Using the teaching portfolio to reflect on and communicate your own teaching
Module 3 - Compulsory module (3.1) Together with other lecturers and subject experts, you will explore the diversity of the teaching portfolio in the workshop. In this creative process, you will [...]
Using the teaching portfolio to reflect on and communicate your own teaching
Module 3 - Compulsory module (3.1) Together with other lecturers and subject experts, you will explore the diversity of the teaching portfolio in the workshop. In this creative process, you will [...]
Exchange meeting: AI in university teaching
The exchange meeting "AI in university teaching" offers a framework for listening, discussing and asking questions. From newbie to expert - everyone is welcome!
Using software and AI in teaching securely and in compliance with data protection regulations (lunch meeting)
At a time when digitalisation is becoming more and more present in all aspects of our society, including the education sector, issues such as data protection, security and the ethical use of [...]
Stud.IP for beginners
The Stud.IP learning management system offers a wide range of options for organising and supporting teaching and learning at the university. It is often used to provide organisational information or [...]