Courses & Certification in Higher Education Pedagogy & Media Literacy
Our Competency Model for Higher Education helps you evaluate your teaching ability and to think about ways to further and deepen your knowledge and skills. You can document your progress bolster your career outlook by keeping a teaching portfolio and acquiring a certificate. If you are interested, we recommend you contact your department liaison, who will gladly advise you concerning our various programs and services. If you have wishes or ideas for specific courses or online-seminars, please contact out Higher Education Teaching team.
Information for registration
Registration for our new program will be possible from March 17. Until then, the video can help you find your continuing education path within the different certification levels.
Basic Level Courses
These courses provide the essential tools for good teaching. You will understand the mechanisms of teaching and learning, discover the factors that make university teaching successful, and learn to apply these to your specific teaching contexts. You will develop your presentation skills and learn how to guide your students’ learning through thoughtfully constructed evaluations. You will get to know a range of possible roles you might adopt as a teacher in addition to techniques to motivate and support your students’ learning outside the classroom.
The basic level certificate is granted upon completion of the foundation course.
Foundation courses in 2025
| Start | Status | Place | Number | Title | Workload | Area Topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08.09.2025 | EN | Barer Straße 21 | U210 | Foundations of Teaching | 60 | A-E |
Advanced Level Courses
The advanced level lets you deepen the knowledge and skills gained in the basic level. Here you will find a wide variety of more specific courses.
We recommend completing the basic level before taking advanced level courses, but this is not (yet) a requirement. You can earn the advanced level certificate by attending a total of 120 units (45 minutes each), including the units earned at the basic level.
Information concerning the start date
Please note: the indicated start date marks the beginning of the course, which can be synchronous (with a joint meeting in presence or online) or asynchronous (with an individual work phase). For detailed information about the course dates and the respective delivery mode, please refer to the linked course descriptions.
Advanced level courses summer term 2025
Start Date The other dates | Language Status | Place | Number | Title | Working Units | Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Please note the following important information on cancellation conditions: up to 15 days before the start of the course you can cancel your participation free of charge, up to 8 days before the start of the course 50% of the course fee will be charged, from 7 days before the start of the course 100% of the course fee will be charged as a cancellation fee. You can also find details in our general terms and conditions (AGB). | ||||||
| 12.05.2025 | EN | Barer Straße 21 | U070 | Students in Crises (S.I.C.) | 14 | E |
| 13.05.2025 | EN | Barer Straße 21 & Online | U080 | Using Storytelling Principles to simplify complex content | 12 | B |
| 19.05.2025 | EN | Online | U081 | Instructional Design Transfer Werkstatt: Moderation und Gesprächsführung | 1 | B |
| 23.05.2025 | EN | Barer Straße 21 | U090 | ChatGPT 101 | 8 | A |
| 23.05.2025 | EN | Online | U100 | Sustainable Futures in Teaching: Introduction | 4 | A, D |
| 11.06.2025 | EN | Barer Straße 21 & Online | U110 | Formative Assessment | 8 | C |
| 12.06.2025 | EN | Online | U111 | Instructional Design Transfer Werkstatt: Using Storytelling Principles to simplify complex content | 1 | B |
| 20.06.2025 | EN | Online | U120 | Creating exams focused on competencies | 10 | C |
| 23.06.2025 | EN | Online | U130 | Supervising Students Theses | 12 | E |
| 27.06.2025 | EN | Online | U150 | Support your students writing with ChatGPT | 2 | E |
| 03.07.2025 | EN | Online | U151 | Instructional Design Transfer Werkstatt: Support your students writing with ChatGPT | 1 | E |
| 04.07.2025 | EN | Barer Straße 21 & Online | U160 | Inverted Classroom: How to Design a Flipped Class | 6 | A |
| 10.07.2025 | EN | Online | U161 | Instructional Design Transfer Werkstatt: Souverän im Hörsaal | 1 | D |
| 10.07.2025 | EN | Online | U170 | Teaching to analyze data with ChatGPT | 2 | A |
| 14.07.2025 | EN | Online | U180 | How to foster critical thinking in the classroom | 8 | D |
| 21.07.2025 | EN | Online | U191 | Instructional Design Transfer Werkstatt: Creating exams focused on competencies | 1 | C |
| 29.07.2025 | EN | Online | U193 | Instructional Design Transfer Werkstatt: How to foster critical thinking in the classroom | 1 | D |
| 29.07.2025 | EN | Barer Straße 21 | U200 | Gamification in Teaching | 7 | A |