Redaktionsteam: Gabi Reinmann, Michaela Gläser-Zikuda & Manuela Keller-Schneider Die Geschichte der Hochschuldidaktik ist eng mit der Geschichte der Universität, dem Stellenwert von Bildung, speziell von Bildung durch Wissenschaft, und ihrem…
SIG University Teaching Education meeting
Dear SFDN members, The next Thursday 09.04.15 the enthusiastic SIG-UTE team will meet in the ZHAW (Winterthur) to discuss ways to continue building our internal projects and group activities. We will…
3rd Meeting SIG Curriculum Development
On the third meeting of the SIG “Curriculum Development” (23/03/2015) the following topics were discussed Concepts for curriculum development Practices of curriculum development Existing guidelines Please refer to the SIG…
ICED Continental Symposium: “Evidence-based Educational Development”, June 14 & 15, Victoria, British Columbia
Presidents and Educational leaders from 24 countries around the world will participate in an outstanding collaboration of workshops, panels and open conversations. This continental symposium will dive into a range…
SFDN-Workshop on Academic Writing: Strategies for Inspiring Faculty and Yourself
What evidence-based strategies can academic developers use to inspire faculty to write more confidently, prolifically, and with greater pleasure? Workshop with Helen Sword (University of Auckland) Wed, 13 May 2015,…
Call for Papers: International Journal for Academic Development (IJAD), Special Issue
The title of the special issue (2016) is: Beyond learning and teaching: extending the frontiers of academic development Manuscripts are due 31 July 2015. Please find the call here: IJAD Special…
Online Courses: The University of Basel Cooperates With British Platform FutureLearn
The University of Basel has entered into a partnership with FutureLearn, a British platform for massive open online courses (MOOCs). It aims to offer online courses via the platform –…
Faculty Advisor Position at Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne
Please see the job description here: Academic Advisor Opening_EHL Closing date for applications is April 30 2015.
European Conference on SoTL, University College Cork, June 8-9 2015
Flyer_EuroSOTL Many educational development initiatives emphasize a scholarship of teaching and learning (SOTL) approach, but what does this mean, in theory and in practice? How can the scholarship of teaching…
SFDN-Workshop with Prof. Eric Mazur @ ETH (Nov., 28th 2014)
Prof. Eric Mazur: Flat space – deep learning Based on the principles of backward course design (Wiggins & McTigh, 2005) Eric Mazur presented the redesign of his own course…
SIG University Teaching Education
The SIG University teaching education aims to create a space where practitioners and researchers can share and reflect together practical concerns, so that together generate ways to face current and forthcoming challenges in this…
Interesting two weeks webinars and discussions about Co-learning
The following two weeks are devoted to the topic of Co-learning, which also include topics as teaching and assessment in co-learning environments. If you are interested in this topic, the webinars and…