Learning to Teach: A New Staff-Dev Podcast Episode

Beitragsbild Learning to teach: listen to the new STAFF-DEV podcast series
STAFF-DEV’s Learning to Teach podcast series takes you into the world of those who design and organize staff development activities to improve learning and teaching at European universities. In the new episode EUA’s Thérèse Zhang talks to RUB's Vice-Rector for Academic and International Affairs Professor Kornelia Freitag.

In this fifth episode, Thérèse Zhang from European University Association talks to Professor Kornelia Freitag about developing international and intercultural teaching. Together, they explore transnational cooperation and staff development.

How can local priorities be balanced with international cooperation, and what are the best practices for transnational staff development? Professor Kornelia Freitag offers insights into the internationalisation strategy of Ruhr University Bochum and its involvement in the European University of Post-Industrial Cities (UNIC) alliance.

This podcast series is part of an Erasmus Plus funded project called Staff Development for Learning and Teaching at European Universities.
Staff development at RUB
At Ruhr University, the ZfW as center for teaching and learning is responsible for the didactic training and further education of teachers. Our didactic qualification program offers a variety of workshops and seminars on teaching and learning throughout the year. Through our project UNIC, there are also offers in English.
More about the STAFF-DEV project

The EU-funded ‘Staff development for learning and teaching at European universities’ (STAFF-DEV) project aims to map and analyze how staff development is implemented at European higher education institutions (HEIs), how it is embedded into institutional and national strategies for learning and teaching and academic assessment, and what HEIs and national- and system-level stakeholders could learn from each other in this regard. The project will contribute to a knowledge base on staff development, as well as capacity building in learning and teaching, benefitting HEIs at different stages of developing their support and strategic approaches on learning and teaching and academic assessment.

The ZfW as the center for teaching and learning at Ruhr-University Bochum is part of the STAFF-DEV project group and organizes peer learning offers and a masterclass for teaching support facilities within the project.