Prof. Dr. Hartmann, what do you do in your innovation professorship?

My teaching innovation professorship is about researching how we as university lecturers can best support students in developing future skills. In particular, the question is to what extent future skills can be promoted through student-centered teaching. Case-based learning in combination with small learning units (so-called knowledge nuggets) and gamification elements will be used for this purpose. How could other teachers, students and researchers (at OTH) benefit from your projects?

Three main aspects are needed to implement the teaching concept: Firstly, you need a complex, authentic case for each course session that can be solved in small groups. Secondly, you need small learning units, e.g. in the form of short videos. And thirdly, a quiz is needed for each course, which can also be solved in small groups. All courses in which these three elements can be integrated are also suitable for trying out and implementing this teaching concept. The teaching concept can therefore be used in different areas, courses and faculties. Students can expect to be better able to solve the challenges of the future world of work through this type of teaching. In order to evaluate the new teaching concept scientifically, the future skills are to be measured and compared with a more "traditional" teaching concept. The teaching innovation professorship should therefore also make a contribution to teaching and learning research. What motivated you to want to realize a teaching innovation?

We all notice every day that working conditions and work requirements are changing due to megatrends such as digitalization and sustainability. As lecturers at universities of applied sciences, it is our job to prepare our students for the working world of tomorrow in the best possible way. As an occupational and organizational psychologist, I am therefore particularly motivated to explore the question of how we can use teaching to help our students acquire the necessary future skills even better. Which future skills does your LIP focus on in particular and why?

The Future Skills Framework of the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft e.V. comprises four categories of future skills: technological skills, key digital skills, traditional skills and transformative skills. My teaching innovation professorship is primarily concerned with transformative and traditional skills. These include, for example, problem-solving skills, creativity and the ability to engage in dialog and criticism.