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New Momentum in Education

This hands-on workshop series - ranging from course design and improvisation techniques to co-creation - has been designed to inspire educators, encourage interaction, and provide concrete ideas and resources to help you structure and improve your courses.

 

The workshop series is for any and all experienced and/or new course instructors in all majors at the JKU interested in improving their didactic skills, as well as unleashing their creative potential and expanding their repertoire of educational methods. Experienced experts will motivate and inspire you as you work together to create target-oriented, purposeful, and highly effective courses.

 

On-Site Workshops.

Enabling Spaces: Spaces to Create New Knowledge

Gloria Maria Bottaro

 

How can you design creative learning spaces to support co-creating? Learn more about methods and tools designed to support generating knowledge in university-level education.

Learning How to Teach: Improving Instruction Skills Using Didactic Methods

Freya Willicks


What can you do to improve your teaching skills? Learn more about methods designed to encourage you to reflect on your role as an educator and strengthen your long-term teaching skills.

Active Audiences: Interaction and Formats to Fill Lecture Halls

Gloria Maria Bottaro
 

How can you more actively involve students in the classroom? Learn more about moderation methods, interacting, improv, and technical tools designed to create an atmosphere that encourages learning.

Improv Theater to Support a Higher Level of Confidence, Spontanity and Creativity

Stefanie Altenhofer

How can the art of improvisation and performing arts improve your teaching skills? Learn more about educational methods in theater that can boost your confidence, creativity, and flexibility in the classroom.

Independent Study Workshops.

Beginning in April 2025, we will offer our new flexible and interactive independent study workshops; learn at your own pace, free of time and location constraints!

 

Design Matters: Planning courses professionally

Freya Willicks


Plan instead of improvising! Organize courses flexibly and independently by applying a well thought-out, efficient didactical approach.

Engaging Learners: Applying motivation to support sustainable learning

Freya Willicks

 

Staying quiet in the classroom is a thing of the past! Boost motivation and actively support interactive learning as part of your university course(s) by flexibly and independently applying basic principles, as well as a range of tools and methods, .

Blended Learning: Finding the right combination of methods to support your university course

Freya Willicks

 

Get digitally up to speed in the classroom! Learn how to flexibly and independently combine analog and digital media and use modern methods to supplement your lectures!

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Freya Willicks

University Didactics & Systemic Coaching
[Translate to Englisch:] Freya Willicks
Expert

Stefanie Altenhofer

Actor and Director
[Translate to Englisch:] Portrait Sarah Altenhofer
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Gloria Maria Bottaro

Innovation Researcher
[Translate to Englisch:] Gloria Maria Bottaro