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Research in Higher Education as a Contribution to Professionalising Teaching in Higher Education - Workshop for the Future of Higher Education Teaching
| Calls: | 22.11.2007 |
| Duration of funding: | 2008 - 2013 |
| Total volume: | ca. 16 million EUR |
| Projects: | 32 research alliances |
| Project manager: |  Project management agency at German Aerospace Center, higher education research |
1. Objectives of the funding measure
The research priority on professionalism in teaching in higher education - "research in higher education" - pursues the overarching goal of systematically dealing with processes of generating and teaching science, including the didactic, curricular and institutional preconditions to successful, good learning and teaching and with provable correlations of effects regarding the internal organisation of teaching and research, as well as external governance. In this respect, existing R&D capacities shall be strengthened, with particular focus on building up additional R&D capacities, thus enhancing the basis for verifiable decisions of actors in higher education.The projects that are funded focus on aspects that have so far only been marginally considered by research on higher education teaching: vocational orientation, relation to the area of practice and teaching competencies, the structure of academic teaching and professionalising teaching staff, curriculare and institutional organisation, transitions from school and to work respectively, and design of the examination system.
Zur Förderbekanntmachung "Hochschulforschung als Beitrag zur Professionalisierung der Hochschullehre" (call: research in higher education as a contribution to professionalising teaching in higher education)
2. State of the funding measure
By summer 2009, all of the 32 research projects that have been granted funding have begun their work. Some empirical test series have already commenced so first interim findings are anticipated for 2010.A workshop was held at the University of Dortmund in late November 2009 on the topic of "higher education didactics as a discipline of higher education research". The documentation of this workshop’s findings will be made available online by early 2010, at
www.hd-hf.de. A special edition of the journal on higher education didactics, "Hochschuldidaktik Journal", is envisaged for March 2010.