Archive September 2018

Dear SFDN member,

Please find below the link to the Open Learning Days on the topic of Open Educational Resources in Lucerne 29^th and 30^th of January 2019

https://openlearningdays.ch/en/

With best wishes

The SFDN Board

Dear SFDN Members,

Please note that the job opening is at the FFHS (Fernfachhochschule Schweiz), not the FHNW!

http://jobs.nzz.ch/vacancy/158685/fernfachhochschule-schweiz-ffhs-professur-fur-e-didaktik-und-departementsleitung 

With best wishes,

The SFDN Board

Dear SFDN member,

Here is information about a job opening at the FHNW.

http://jobs.nzz.ch/vacancy/158685/fernfachhochschule-schweiz-ffhs-professur-fur-e-didaktik-und-departementsleitung

With best wishes,

The Board

The University of Teacher Education Lucerne and the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts will host the first international conference on Open Educational Resources on January 28th & 29th.  Please click here to access the conference website and additional information.

Thomas Tribelhorn and his team at the University of Bern have added some additional details for the site visit on October 16, 2018.  Click here to see the details of the day including the possibility to register for part of or the entire day.

Dr. Daniel Halter has been elected as the new Vice-president of Educational Development at FHNW. As a result, ETH is looking for a new Director for their Educational Development and Technology unit, also know as LET (Lehrentwicklung und -technologie).

The ad is available in English and in German. Below is a snippet:

“As Director, you will lead and manage the unit’s specialist groups, personnel and organisational management, and orientation. You will be responsible for supporting the curriculum development process, delivering a range of faculty development activities, teaching evaluations, online exams and the operation of innovation management and IT services for teaching. You will also be responsible for strengthening and coordinating the network of Educational Developers in the ETH departments. You will be a member of the core advisory group on teaching and work closely with the Rector and the Prorector for Curriculum Development to implement the strategy for teaching at ETH Zurich. Together with the LET team, you will identify new educational development themes and elaborate how these may be implemented to benefit high-quality teaching at ETH.”

Thanks to the members who participated in our first webinar!

Here is a link to the slides for those who couldn’t make the session.

This next link is a one-page handout with some practical ideas for interaction (icebreakers and exercises) during a webinar session: Ideas for Interactive Icebreakers

If you have an idea for a webinar session or you would like to lead one please contact Rachel Plews.

Dear members,

A reminder that we have our first webinar of the year coming up!

Register by email at rachel.plews@hepl.ch

Dear SFDN members,

We are happy to announce our second webinar, this time in German: “Denken im Fach vermitteln – mit dem Decoding-Ansatz Studierenden disziplinäre Arbeitsweisen nahebringen”. The webinar is taught by Petra Wess and Kerrin Riewerts (U. Bielefeld) and will introduce and show the applicability of the approach “Decoding the Disciplines” by Pace and Middendorf. It will take place on the 24th September from 10 to 11am through Switch Interact.

More information and the registration link are found here.

We look forward to meeting you.

All the best,

Mònica Feixas

ZHE Zentrum für Hochschuldidaktik und -entwicklung

Pädagogische Hochschule Zürich