Further training in the field of IVAC

• Organising asynchronous phases for teaching and learning (28 June & 5 July 2021) Organising asynchronous phases for teaching and learning (28 June & 5 July 2021)
  
  Workshop in three parts:
  
  • Part I Synchronous Meeting (Zoom): 28.06.2021, 09:30-12:15 CEST (3 AE)
  • Part II Self-Learning asynchronously (with individual Feedback): in-between (2 AE)
  • Part III Synchronous Meeting (Zoom): 05.07.2021, 09:00-11:45 CEST (3 AE)

  
  Content:
  During the pandemic in 2020 the switch to online teaching had to take place very quickly. After more than a year of teaching online, universities and their employees had time to reflect the challenges and opportunities of a wide range of experiences. At this point teachers are able to let go of a remote emergency teaching style and think about how to further develop their competencies in online teaching. Focusing on asynchronous teaching arrangements, this workshop aims at collecting different possibilities to enhance student learning.
  
  Topics:
  

  • Didactic designs using asynchronous teaching and learning phases
  • Different possibilities for asynchronous teaching and learning (e. g. on Moodle).
  • Discussion about Do’s and Don’ts when planning asynchronous tasks
  • Transfer to own teaching contexts
  • Exchange amongst colleagues and feedback

  
  Learning outcomes:
  After this workshop participants are able to
  

  • … identify technical tools to implement asynchronous tasks online
  • … recognize subtleties for setting successful e-learning tasks
  • … reflect their own teaching contexts and transfer the new impulses to their specific teaching practice

  
  Methods:
  Participants are invited to reflect on their own teaching formats, when planning to use asynchronous phases as an opportunity to arrange learning. The workshop leads through different possibilities of implementing asynchronous tasks online. Participants are encouraged to actively engage in discussions and transfer their findings and insights to their own teaching contexts.
  
  Dr. Lisa David
  As an educational scientist, a consultant and teacher for teaching and learning in higher education Lisa David is active at a various range of universities in Luxembourg, Germany and Austria. Her research focuses on learning theory and professional development of teachers and trainers and the consultancies aim at the strategic planning of faculty development.
  
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• Igniting Informal Diversity Interactions Through Virtual Exchange (22 March 2021) Igniting Informal Diversity Interactions Through Virtual Exchange (22 March 2021)
  
  The power of virtual exchange lies in its capacity to produce real, transformative global learning through meaningful interactions with diversity. Intercultural relationship-building doesn’t happen by default, but it can be promoted through purposeful design. This participatory workshop will equip you with a wide range of practical tools and strategies for promoting intercultural relationship building outside the formal curriculum.
  
  Learning Outcomes:
  Participants will be able to:
  
  • Describe the distinct qualities and importance of three kinds of diversity interactions: classroom, formal, and informal
  • Incorporate key elements of purposeful intercultural learning design into virtual exchange projects across the curriculum
  • Identify tools and strategies that stimulate student-led informal diversity interactions outside of the formal curriculum

  
  The workshop will take place 22 March 2021, 15:00-17:00 (GMT+1) on ZOOM.
  
  Presenter Biographies:
  Stephanie Doscher, Ed.D. is Director of Florida International University’s Office of Collaborative Online International Learning (FIU COIL) and is co-author of Making Global Learning Universal: Promoting Inclusion and Success for All Students (Stylus & NAFSA, 2018), a comprehensive handbook for engaging all undergraduates in collaborative global problem solving with diverse others. She hosts the Making Global Learning Universal Podcast, is a Faculty Fellow with FIU’s Center for Leadership, and serves on the editorial advisory board for AAC&U’s Liberal Education.
  
  Yenisleidy Simon Mengana is Program Manager of Florida International University’s Office of Global Learning. In this role, she leads the development, implementation, and evaluation of programs designed to increase students’ global awareness, global perspectives, and global engagement. Her experience includes working nationally and internationally in the areas of education, international development, humanitarianism, gender advocacy, and global engagement. Yeni is a Humanity in Action Fellow, and most recently, she joined as a Teaching Faculty member of the Global Citizenship Alliance.

• Understanding and developing ‘students as partners’ practice (22 February 2021) Understanding and developing ‘students as partners’ practice (22 February 2021)
  
  Ways of engaging students in higher education as partners in learning and teaching is arguably one of the most important issues facing higher education in the 21st Century. Partnership is essentially a process for engaging students, though not all engagement involves partnership. It is a way of doing things, rather than an outcome in itself. This interactive session will unpack what is meant by students as partners and examine four ways in which students may be engaged as partners through: a) Learning, teaching and assessment; b) Subject-based research and inquiry; c) Scholarship of teaching and learning; and d) Curriculum design and pedagogic advice and consultancy. The themes will be illustrated with mini case studies from different parts of the world. We will also discuss the values which should underpin student-staff partnerships and explore how the ideas discussed may be applied in your projects.
  
  Learning Outcomes
  By the end of this webinar you will:
  
  • Be able to contrast the range of meanings of ‘students as partners’ with examples.
  • Have evaluated the values underlying student-staff partnerships.
  • Have identified at least one action for yourself or your team to develop your student-staff partnership(s) in your context.

  
  The webinar will take place 22 February 2021, 15:00-17:00 (GMT+1) on ZOOM.
  
  Biography:
  Ruth Healey is an Associate Professor in Pedagogy in Higher Education at the University of Chester, UK where she has been since 2009. She was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship (NTF) in 2017 and in 2019 was awarded one of nine inaugural fellowships of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSoTL). She is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Geography in Higher Education (2009-) and is one of the inaugural Editors of the International Journal for Students as Partners (2016-).

• Change of Perspective and Expectation Management - Higher Education Didactic Reflections on Teaching and Learning in International Projects (20 November 2020) Change of Perspective and Expectation Management - Higher Education Didactic Reflections on Teaching and Learning in International Projects (20 November 2020)
  
  Also and especially in international teaching projects, teachers and learners are facing a variety of expectations and perspectives with regard to working together. Understanding each other's perspectives can contribute significantly to the quality of the teaching-learning process. The workshop will therefore provide an opportunity to reflect on expectations and changes in perspective through exercises, individual tasks and, above all, through exchange in the group. In addition, short didactic inputs on changes of perspective as learning impulses in the context of higher education will be offered, on the basis of which it will then be possible to work in a structured form on design ideas on how learning through changes of perspective can be made possible in the projects.
  
  Please allow approximately 30 minutes between the morning session and the afternoon session to work on a planning and reflection task.
  
  The workshop will take place on Friday, 20 November 2020 from 9:30 am to 4:00 pm on ZOOM.
  
  Short vita of the trainer
  Dr. Cornelia Kenneweg is a freelance trainer and consultant for teaching and learning in higher education. Her work focuses on the foundations of teaching and learning in higher education and research-oriented approaches. Among other things, she is on the board of the HD Text+ association for the promotion of subject-related teaching and learning in higher education in the humanities, cultural sciences and social sciences. She has already dealt with changes of perspective in the context of teaching and learning in higher education in workshops and lectures on "Attitude and Action" and on "Teaching and Learning in Higher Education as a Practice of Translation".