In this category instructors can find courses relevant to good teaching practices and methodologies.

This course aims to improve the knowledge of the students, teachers and staff members in their digital competences, in a basic learning of how to use better the resources available online to create new materials.

Course type: Self-paced
Instructor(s): María Fernández Raga
University offering the course: University of Leon
Language: English
Short Description: This course aims to improve the knowledge of the students, teachers and staff members in their digital competences, in a basic learning of how to use better the resources available online to create new materials.
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Participants learn various hands-on methods to integrate into their foreign language classrooms. Participants reflect on the applicability of the methods for different language levels. Participants examine their role within an intercultural university context. Participants will discuss the method of critical incidents to become intercultural sensitive in the own classroom.

Target audience: foreign language teachers.

More information can be found here.

Course type: Hybrid
Duration: 25 hours
Estimated learning time: 25 hours
Instructor(s): Theresa Wand and Frauke Senckel
University offering the course: TU Bergakademie Freiberg
Language: English
Short Description: In this course participants learn various hands-on methods to integrate into their foreign language classrooms; they reflect on the applicability of the methods for different language levels and examine their role within an intercultural university context.
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The objective of this course is to provide the basic theoretical and practical knowledge and skills that allow to effectively implement interdisciplinary PBL programmes in the academic curricula, with the aim of stimulating educational process by solving real problems or situations and thus, connecting the learning process with its application in the real world.

Intended audience: academic staff

The course was offered during winter 2022.


Course type: live online course
Duration: 6 weeks (25/01/22-03/03/22), 40 hours in total
University offering the course: Silesian University of Technology
Language: English
Short Description: The objective of this course is to provide the basic theoretical and practical knowledge and skills that allow to effectively implement interdisciplinary PBL programmes in the academic curricula, with the aim of stimulating educational process by solving real problems or situations.
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This course aims to educate instructors on how to prepare students for real-life challenges. It covers cooperative and problem-based learning in higher education. 

The course was offered during summer 2022.

Intended audience: academic staff

Course type: Online (synchronous)
Instructor(s): Leonore Peer
University offering the course: Montanuniversität Leoben
Language: English
Short Description: This course aims to educate instructors on how to prepare students for real-life challenges. It covers cooperative and problem-based learning in higher education.
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The course aims at facilitating instructors' self-awareness and self-reflection as teachers and encouraging them to develop a student-centered approach and use methods of active learning.

More information can be found here.

Course type: Hybrid
Estimated learning time: 25 hours
Instructor(s): Leonore Peer
University offering the course: Montanuniversität Leoben
Language: English
Short Description: The course aims at facilitating instructors' self-awareness and self-reflection as teachers and encouraging them to develop a student-centered approach and use methods of active learning.
Pre-Registration instructions: