Outstanding teaching: A pedagogue and two historians from the University of Oldenburg have been honoured with the Teaching Prize at a ceremony for their outstanding teaching of content to students.
The Vice President for Studies, Teaching and Gender equality, Prof Dr Sabine Kyora, presented the certificates to Julia Lüpkes, Lucas Haasis and Prof Dr Malte Thießen. The winners each receive 1,000 euros in prize money for teaching.
With the award, the University of Oldenburg recognises outstanding university teaching and at the same time encourages students to engage with teaching and learning processes at the university. In the 2015/16 academic year, students were once again invited to nominate particularly successful courses, from which a jury made a selection. "The proposals submitted are exemplary examples of how lecturers can motivate their students and encourage research-based learning," explained Kyora at the award ceremony.
This year's prize in the "Best Event" category went to Julia Lüpkes from the Institute of Educational Sciences for her successful combination of theory and practice. Her course "Lernausgangsdiagnostik und Förderung im Sachunterricht - einzeleldiagnostische Verfahren" ("Learning outcome diagnostics and support in subject teaching - individual diagnostic procedures") encouraged students to discover new areas of responsibility and new topics, according to the jury made up of lecturers, students and a representative of the Oldenburg University Society (UGO).
In the "Research-based learning" category, the jury recognised the didactic concept of Lucas Haasis from the Institute of History. In the seminar "Simply incorrigible. The discovery of the self in the early modern period", Haasis linked social media with a historical epoch in a novel way. According to the jury, the direct reference to today's everyday life opened up a change of perspective for the students and at the same time required a high level of transfer performance. The seminar concept can also be applied to many topics.
In this year's special "Course Evaluation" award, the students' vote counted in a different way: Lecturers were able to apply with the evaluation results of a course themselves. Prof Dr Malte Thießen from the Institute of History came out on top with his seminar "European Angst: Cultural History of the Cold War".
The university has been honouring outstanding achievements by university lecturers since 1998. The teaching prize is sponsored by the UGO.
