Zeitgemässe Lehrkompetenzentwicklung

Marion Lehner; Angela Jochum; Benno Volk; Philip Barth; Samuel Krattenmacher

doi:10.21240/zfhe/20-3/01

Higher education is facing major challenges: digitization, expansion of education, and the demand for high-quality, scientifically sound teaching that is also relevant to the job market call for new approaches. To generate solutions, n = 9 video interviews were conducted with subject matter experts in the DACH region on the topics of peer feedback, individual teaching competence development, higher education didactics, and technological support in teaching. The interviews suggest that teaching competence encompasses not only knowledge, but also the ability to reflect and continuously develop. In addition to formal continuing education, informal learning pathways, networks, and peer coaching are gaining in importance.

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Not only society, but also the higher education landscape is undergoing fundamental change. This poses major challenges for the quality of higher education teaching at universities and colleges in Germany, Austria and Switzerland: Digitalisation of all areas, educational expansion and mass universities, demands for higher labour market relevance of studies, promotion of future skills, questions about economically sustainable education funding and socio-political challenges of our time call for new skills for contemporary teaching. These developments are contributing to a reflection and readjustment of the goals of academic education and are gradually bringing university teaching more into the focus of politics and society. The increased attention paid to teaching is accompanied by the question of the (further) development of university didactic professionalisation, which is increasingly moving away from traditional forms of knowledge transfer and further towards project-based and more open teaching and learning environments.

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Marion Lehner BIO WWW
ETH Zürich
https://orcid.org/0009-0001-7472-420X

Marion Lehner

Educational Developerin und Dozentin an der Unit for Teaching and Learning der ETH Zürich
Angela Jochum
PH St. Gallen
https://orcid.org/0009-0005-8272-3863
Benno Volk
ETH Zürich
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6414-2452
Philip Barth
ETH Zürich
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0347-6958
Samuel Krattenmacher
PH Schaffhausen
https://orcid.org/0009-0005-5157-114X

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Lehner, M., Jochum, A., Volk, B., Barth, P., & Krattenmacher, S. (2025). Contemporary teaching skills development. Zeitschrift für Hochschulentwicklung (Journal for Higher Education Development), 20(3), 17–41. https://doi.org/10.21240/zfhe/20-3/01

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