Strategic Goals

The targeted and learning-friendly interconnection of digital and analog formats allows for individual in-depth learning in self-study phases. Social and cooperative learning – with fellow students and supported by the teaching staff – is firmly established in the understanding of teaching and in the motto 'Connecting Creative Minds' of the University of Freiburg. Digitalization also contributes to cooperation in virtual learning and teaching environments and to promotion of teamwork skills.

As a European University, the University of Freiburg is dedicated to offer a European degree program that focuses on digitally supported learning and teaching across locations, on networks and on student mobility. The didactic and subject-specific exchange with teaching staff and students of our international partners contributes to a natural approach to diversity and the acquisition of intercultural competencies. Language barriers are also reduced by digital tools. In sustainable global cooperation, digital teaching is even more important.

Strategic Measures

Structural Goals

A 'Center for Teaching and Learning' consolidates all services for (digital) teaching and continuing education. It provides the teaching staff with reliable and professional support in the use of the systems, state-of-the-art advice on the (media-) didactic conception, development of innovative teaching formats and environments, as well as support in the implementation and application. The center also advises the staff and supports reflecting on the experiences and as the case may be, in transferring successful concepts. A university-wide alliance between central service units and faculties, as well as between the faculties is established and used in a sustained manner, to generate synergies, avoid parallel structures, and to increase transparency and transfer of successful solutions and teaching concepts.

The provision of a reliable, multifunctional, and user-friendly digital infrastructure, as well as fully integrated platforms and tools form the basis for innovative digital teaching scenarios that are realizable as intuitively as possible. The offer of information and literature shall be increasingly available in digital form and on a long-term basis.

Structural Measures

Goals for the learning and teaching culture

For the targeted use of digital teaching, a critical and competent approach to media must be learnt. This applies equally to students, teaching staff and all other staff members. The teaching staff of the University of Freiburg acquire the (media) didactic competencies in their first semesters of teaching if they do not have them yet. The development of digital teaching formats is then promoted by incentives. The University of Freiburg is dedicated to enhance its students' skills for self-regulated learning and to help them develop learning strategies that are essential for digital learning in the first two semesters. Student teachers, who will later act as multipliers, have an increased need of critical media competency. The options of how pass/fail and graded assessments can be conducted digitally are being extended.

We create an open teaching/learning culture by issuing and using Open Educational Resources (OER) in undergraduate teaching and for informal (further/continued) learning and knowledge transfer into society. We strengthen our continuing education offer through digitally supported teaching, particularly in the form of micro degrees.

Measures for the learning and teaching culture