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.

Registration for courses in the Winter Semester 2019/20 will open on Monday, September 16.

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 60 study units (45 minutes each).

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.

Specialization Level

There are no specific courses for the specialization level. Rather, to complete this level, you must compile a teaching portfolio, carry out a teaching project, and receive teaching feedback. Any missing study units can be completed by attending more courses at the advanced level. Read more. 

Intensive Courses

In our intensive courses, up to 12 participants work together as a group over the course of two years. They develop all necessary pedagogical knowledge and skills and apply them in teaching observations and practical projects. At the end of the two years, participants receive the Certificate for Teaching in Higher Education at the specialization level. Read more.