Higher education and digital didactics in mechanical engineering

You teach at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at KIT? Do you often think about how to make your teaching more innovative and effective? Do you want to improve your general and subject-specific teaching skills? Do you want to use digital didactics effectively and profitably? We can support you!

We offer junior research group leaders and postdoctoral researchers the opportunity to obtain a certificate attesting to their basic teaching skills. You are also welcome to use our other services independently of this certificate. You can find details under ‘Offers’.

In close cooperation with KIT Higher Education Didactics, the higher eduation didactics of the Department deals with the developments and requirements of learning and teaching, especially in mechanical engineering, in the study programmes of the department as well as with individual lecturers.

Offers of the department

Subject-specific support and academic didactics for the development of study programmes
Creation of tailor-made subject-specific didactic innovations, approaches and concepts for the faculty
Didactic workshops on request (e.g. supervision of final theses)
Individual consultation (e.g. on qualification goals, redesign of a course)
Course observation with individual feedback
Certificate program ATC (Advanced Teaching Competencies) for habilitation candidates and junior research group leaders for the further development of personal teaching competence and as preparation for a university career. Flyer about the program

Offers of KIT for digital didactics

KIT e-learning site incl. ticket system via elearning∂studium.kit.edu (questions sent to this address will be forwarded to the responsible organizational units)
MS-Copilot: AI language model
Digital Didactics: Project to improve digital teaching by developing and testing blended learning scenarios and creating a toolbox for digital teaching
Artificial Intelligence in teaching and learning: Information on the use of generative artificial intelligence at KIT

Ideas for Teaching

The calendar of events for Human Resources Development at KIT
https://tcmanager.scc.kit.edu/kit_peba/result.jsp
The Baden-Württemberg Certificate for teaching and learning at university level
http://www.peba.kit.edu/1130.php http://www.hdz-bawue.de/
Literature for download
"How Professors Develop as Teachers" von Peter Kugel als pdf-Download Die ideale Entwicklungskurve von Lehrenden Quelle: http://cs.bc.edu/~kugel/Publications/Publications.html
Tipps zur Lehrveranstaltungsevaluation als pdf-Download Ergebnisse konstruktiv für die eigene Lehre nutzen Quelle: http://www.peba.kit.edu/1134.php
In the “Springerverlag“- to be obtained as an E-Book for KIT-Members
Klaus Konrad: Lernen lernen – allein und mit anderen, 2014 http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-658-04986-7
Markus Brauer: An der Hochschule lehren, 2011 http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-642-42006-1
Christine Reitzer: Erfolgreich lehren: Ermutigen, motivieren, begeistern, 2014 http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-642-41820-4
Video archive for „Langen Nacht der Abschlussarbeiten“ at KIT
http://www.hoc.kit.edu/LNDA/archiv.php
Websites as of March 2021
Gute Lehre am KIT Videobeispiele von Lehrmethoden im Einsatz http://www.peba.kit.edu/1246.php
Flipped-Classroom-Projekt Zuhause vorbereiten, in der Lehrveranstaltung denken - von C. Thein u. F. Fähnrich http://www.fliptheclassroom.de
Leitfaden für Dozierende, ETH Zürrich https://www.ethz.ch/services/de/lehre/leitfaden-dozierende.html
Der Lehreladen Downloadcenter für inspirierte Lehre - Ruhr-Universität Bochum https://dbs-lin.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/lehreladen/
Der Schreibberater http://www.schreibberater.info/
E-Learning - ein Überblick https://www.e-teaching.org/lehrszenarien