Teaching
I have been involved in academic teaching since the year 2000 when I was a graduate student at the University of Bielefeld. As a tutor, I have both independently taught classes and supported the teaching activities of my supervising professors.Since then, I had many opportunities to hone my instructional skills in face-to-face and hybrid and online settings. My teaching philosophy is strongly influenced by my professional and academic background in educational technology research, instructional design and design thinking. I understand digital tools as mediating artifacts, which allow students to achieve individual learning goals. Learning is the acquisition of new mental schemata, models, abilities and skills, which can be used to solve problems more successfully, to support decision making and to evaluate new experiences. This understanding of learning accentuates doing as a basis for creating knowledge. Therefore, I strongly believe in assignments where students can create, cooperate and reflect upon the product and process. Social software (e.g., blogs, wikis, networking, media sharing) can support these activities in digital settings. For in-person facilitation I am most interested in participatory, creative methods (design thinking, serious play) and maker pedagogy.
Teaching Experience
2022-present: Design Thinking, Makerspaces, Book Sprints (Agile Techniques for Vocational Education) – annual workshops together with Thilo Harth, Münster Unviersity of Applied Sciences
2022-present (online, hyflex). Educational Technology for Strong Schools – Asian University for Women.
2022-present (online, hyflex). Design Thinking – Asian University for Women.
2021-2023 (online). Introduction to Web Science, TH Köln University of Applied Sciences.
2021 (online): Design Thinking – Johns Hopkins University
2020 (online): Design Thinking – together with Thilo Harth, Münster Unviersity of Applied Sciences.
2019: Grundkurs Empirische Methoden (Empirical Methods), TH Köln University of Applied Sciences.
2019: Social Media for Public Health –Kempten University of Applied Sciences.
2019: Design Thinking – together with Thilo Harth, Münster Unviersity of Applied Sciences.
2018: Seminar ‘Grundlagen Bautechnik’ (Teaching Civil Engineering). – together with Thilo Harth, Münster Unviersity of Applied Sciences.
2016/2017: Pre-K- Grade3 weekly German class ‘Deutsch mit Hans Hase’ at Chapel Hill Public Library
2011/2012: Instructional Design: E-Learning – Basics, Trends and Perspectives, Ulm University, Department of Learning and Instruction (class language German)
2011/ 2012: Research Skills: Cyberculture, Computer Mediated Communication & Webnography, Ulm University, Department of Learning and Instruction (class language German)
2011: Research Skills: Cyberculture, Computer Mediated Communication & Webnography, Ulm University, Department of Learning and Instruction (class language German)
2011: Instructional Design: Evaluation of Educational Websites Ulm University, Department of Learning and Instruction (class language German)
2010/2011: Instructional Design: E-Learning – Basics, Trends and Perspectives, Ulm University, Department of Learning and Instruction (class language German)
2010/2011: TPSE “Technical Presentation Skills for Engineers”, Ulm University, Department of Engineering (class language English)
2007/2008: Lecture Media Psychology, Neu-Ulm University (class language German)
2006: Lecture Media Psychology, Neu-Ulm University (class language German)
2005/2006: Lecture Media Psychology, Neu-Ulm University (class language German)
Bachelor / Master Thesis Committees
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2024: Sawdah Hoque. Social Emotional Learning. Asian University for Women.
2023: Fatima Ameri. Negative Mental Health Consequences of University Closures on Female university Students in Afghanistan: Coping Strategies and the Potential Benefits of Online Learning Opportunities After the Taliban Returns. Asian University for Women.
2023: Mugdha Milind Joshi. Design Thinking. Cologne University of Applied Sciences.
2023: Jose Miguel Silveira Soares. Artificial Creativity. Cologne University of Applied Sciences.
2022: Saba Pervaiz. Hybrid Usability Evaluation of Androids Commerce Apps based on Software Quality Models. Cologne University of Applied Sciences.
2016: Sasa Danilov. Visualizing Tag Clouds. Athabasca University, Canada.
2011: Franziska Schütz. Hochschulkommunikation mit Hilfe von audiovisuellen Medien im Social Web am Beispiel des Masterinfotages 2011 an der Universität Ulm, Bachelor-Thesis, Ulm University Germany
2011: Benjamin Schierlinger. Interaktivität in Videos. Ein Imagefilm über das Zentrum für E-Learning. Bachelor-Thesis, Ulm University, Germany
