Teaching Service
Service unit for the strategic quality development of teaching and learning
The Teaching Service Centre at Leuphana University Lüneburg supports teachers, students, faculties and study programmes in the strategic and operational quality development of studies and teaching. As a central service unit, it combines measures, processes and instruments for quality assurance and development in order to ensure coherent, sustainable and continuous improvement at all levels – from the individual course to the overall university strategy. In doing so, it is guided by both the internal goals of the university and national and international standards.
The portfolio of services offered by the Teaching Service to support and ensure the strategic quality development of teaching and learning is divided into the following fields:
- Coordination of cross-thematic teaching and quality development
Topics include: teaching and study culture, AI in studies, teaching and examinations; digital teaching, learning and testing; quality cycles - Applications and projects
Tasks: coordination of third-party funding applications, project development and support - Support, training and advice
Focus: university didactics, blended learning, AI, digital tools & exams (esp. e-exams) - Exchange & knowledge transfer
Focus: community building & networking, events and newsletter - Evaluation & accreditation
Tasks: course evaluation, Shift!, system surveys, quality circles, internal review procedures, annual review of studies and teaching, quality advisory board, system re-accreditation, project evaluation.
The close interconnection of these topics allows the teaching service to design teaching and quality development as both a continuous and a dynamic participatory process. Impulses and results from evaluation, accreditation, teaching and learning innovations are deliberately integrated in order to constantly improve studies and teaching.
In our Teaching Portal you will find a wide range of support services, in particular for
- Teaching design with handouts on didactic methods, media production for teaching,
- Tips for writing a course description (syllabus)
- Reflecting on your teaching by creating teaching portfolios and receiving feedback
- Innovating your teaching and teaching concepts
- Digital tools and their applications
- Applying for funding for teaching and curriculum development projects
- Examinations at Leuphana with exam organisation, online exams, scan exams
If you have a general enquiry or message for the teaching service, it is best to use our central address, which you can find on the contact page.
The Teaching Service offers a wide range of opportunities for the continuing education of Leuphana's teaching staff. These include a compact programme, a certificate programme in higher education didactics and a programme for English-speaking teachers, as well as a wide range of workshops on various topics. You can find more information about all the training opportunities offered by the Teaching Service on the Teaching Service web pages.
There are many ways to design a course. In addition to face-to-face teaching, online and hybrid components are also possible. The design of blended learning - the interweaving of synchronous and asynchronous parts in teaching concepts - is one of our consulting focuses.
Please do not hesitate to contact us if, for example
- Want to discuss the technical and didactic challenges,
- are still looking for a more suitable implementation of certain teaching ideas,
- feel overwhelmed by the variety of digital tools and are not sure what is best to use and how,
- would like to develop an already successful event.
Arrange an appointment with us!
Information about services of other units related to teaching and teaching organisation at Leuphana can be found on the intranet (access with VPN only).
We coordinate and support the evaluation and quality development of teaching and learning at all levels: from the course and the study programme to the school and university level, while ensuring compliance with internal and external quality standards. The evaluation processes are incorporated into the internal accreditation of our study programmes. All instruments and procedures used are accredited as part of the Leuphana quality management system within the framework of the system accreditation by the German Accreditation Council.
The evaluation instruments and procedures are:
- at the course level: questionnaire-based course evaluation (LVE) and qualitative feedback format Shift!
- at the study programme level: system surveys, quality circles and internal review procedures
- at school and university level: annual study and teaching review, quality advisory board
In addition, we take on further process and project evaluations as required.
The Teaching Service participates in and is partly responsible for teaching development projects.
Current projects are
- Leuphana: Digital Transformation Lab for Teaching and Learning (DigiTaL, funded by the Foundation for Innovation in Higher Education)
- Souver@nes digitales Lehren und Lernen in Niedersachsen (SOUVER@N, funded by the Foundation for Innovation in Higher Education)
The newsletter of the Leuphana Teaching Service informs you once a month about various topics and offers related to teaching and teaching development. These include current announcements, prizes and competitions, as well as events and conferences at Leuphana and other (inter)national universities, workshops, continuing education and the latest publications, media and materials that provide interesting impulses for innovative teaching, but also for organisational teaching development. Please register to receive the newsletter.