Master Governance and Human Rights: Distance Learning

Based on many years of experience in the field of online and distance education, the Leuphana Professional School has developed a distance-learning concept that matches the geographical and temporal context of the programme.

Support structure

Online learning phases require a great amount of autonomy and self-organisation from the students. Students can chose from a variety of learning methods and techniques. They will receive intensive care during the online-phases.

The students will be supported by the distance-learning staff:

• studies programme coordinator will be the primary contact for all questions that arise during the programme

Technical Infrastructure

The learning platform is the organisational key point, which supports the teaching and the learning process. The technical infrastructure is based on the Moodle platform, which offers many opportunities for communication and cooperation between the students as much as for the presentation and design of additional learning content.

Additionally, teachers and students can use a communications platform (Zoom) for meetings and for conducting Live-Online-Seminars.

The platforms and programmes used are:

• moodle
• Zoom
• VPN client

The Professional School provides the learning content in various online formats:

• central texts are provided in PDF format via an online reader and can be downloaded
• lectures by the course’s teaching staff and external experts are provided as e-lectures (cinematographic PowerPoint presentations)
• the syllabus of each course informs about the online coursework and deadlines
• a syllabus is created that represents the timing and content of the online coursework
• students have access to the online literature of the Leuphana university library

You can access the distance-learning platform here.