LehrZeit Projects
Since 2018, innovative projects by students and lecturers to improve studies and teaching and to implement the four "Qualification and Quality Goals for Studies and Teaching" (Q goals) have been funded through the university's internal "LehrZeit" call for proposals. To ensure sustainability, the projects are to be anchored in the curriculum following a positive evaluation and presented to the university public in the LehrKolleg.
LehrZeit 2023/24
Teaching Elementary Social Studies and Science together in a diversity-sensitive way - a cross-university project on the inclusive cooperation skills of prospective primary and special education teachers
This project is about promoting cooperation skills in inclusive learning settings through a cross-university and cross-school seminar in Elementary Social Studies and Science with students for the special education teaching profession (University of Hanover) and for the primary school teaching profession (Osnabrück University).
Applicant: Prof. Dr. Eva Gläser
Institute/(study) subject: School 03, Elementary Social Studies and Science
This project is about teaching the methodological foundations of participatory research and testing participatory approaches in university teaching by designing teaching content with students and young people in order to develop practice-relevant and target group-oriented knowledge on the topic of "discrimination in adolescence".
Applicant: Prof. Dr. Maarten van Zalk, Wilma Middendorf
Institute/(study) subject: School 08, Department of Developmental Psychology
LehrZeit 2022/23
This project combines a seminar from the field of history and a project seminar from the field of computer science.
In the history/didactic history seminar, students learn to create three-dimensional models of historical artefacts in public spaces in Osnabrück, to contextualize them scientifically and to integrate them into a VR-based exhibition in a public history mediation format. In the project seminar at the Institute of Computer Science, students develop virtual learning and exhibition spaces.
In this way, the students work on a joint project across subject boundaries and not only gain professional and technical skills, but also learn the increasingly important cooperation between the dimensions of "form" and "content".
Applicant: Prof. Dr. Christoph Rass
Institute/(study) subject: School 01, Modern History and Historical Migration Research
Other participants: Prof. Dr. Michael Brinkmeier (Didactics of Computer Science), Prof. Dr. Lale Yildirim (Didactics of History)
Musical instruments from outside Western culture are digitized for a virtual instrument exhibition. Working in groups, students create a 3D model of the individual instruments and record sound material of the respective musical instrument using microphones. The digital copies are placed in a virtual environment that can be entered using VR glasses. Similar to an instrument museum, the exhibits can be examined and studied in the environment. Additional added value is provided by the possibility of interacting with the virtual exhibits, which can be heard via 3D audio playback and can also be touched. Virtual plaques in front of the instruments display information prepared by the students in advance, for example in the form of explanatory graphics, recorded audio files or embedded videos. These possibilities for digital information transfer go far beyond a conventional instrument museum.
Applicant: Tray Minh Voong, M.A.
Institute/(study) subject: School 03 - Institute of Musicology and Music Education
Others involved: Prof. Dr. Michael Oehler (Institute of Musicology and Music Education)
Based on the inverted classroom concept, current topics are prepared by students in video format as pros and cons and made available to fellow students via StudIP before the respective teaching unit. Participants are asked to defend one of the positions and come up with further arguments in order to introduce them into the discussion in the following (analog or hybrid) course. By dividing the lecture participants into "supporters" and "opponents", the discussion also acquires a playful element, so that the students sharpen their argumentation technique, but do not necessarily have to reveal their personal opinion (online).
Applicant: Prof. Dr. Mary-Rose McGuire, Prof. Dr. Jan Oster
Institute/(study) subject: School 10, Institute for Business and Economic Law
Other persons involved: Jana Heidhoff
LehrZeit 2021/22
The recently created digital day excursions are to be further developed (combination of excursion and online lecture or concepts with individual field work and digital collaboration). In future, students will be able to independently acquire new (subject-specific) scientific content, methods and theories and build up an individual skills profile. The digital excursions are intended to provide greater flexibility and choice in the choice of courses.
Applicant: Prof. Dr. Martin Franz
Institute/subject: Institute of Geography, Institute of Environmental Systems Research
Other participants: Dr. Philip Verfürth (lecturer), Rabaz Ahmad (student), Hannah Arnold (student), Tom Eisele (student)
The aim is to design and hold a seminar on the topic of "Digital science communication in times of fake news". Students should be able to better evaluate information from social networks and communicate current scientific topics to society (communication appropriate to the subject and target group). To this end, students are trained in the use of digital media and create and publish digital science communication formats themselves. The following topics in particular are planned: COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, mobility of the future, plastic waste and microplastics issues.
Applicants: Prof. Dr. Marco Beeken, M.Ed. Lars Otte, M.Ed. Nils Kreienhop
Institute/(study) subject: Institute of Chemistry - Didactics of Chemistry
Other participants: Dr. Jörg Klasmeier, Dr. Dominique Remy, Janet Lusmöller, Frauke Brockhage, Johann Schmidt, Tatjana Korte (Stud.), Henning Amel (Stud.), Michaela Sonntag (Stud.), Thilo Nannen (Stud.)
The aim is for students to create video presentations on seminar papers and student research projects or new legislation and court decisions. In this way, students should familiarize themselves with online formats from the perspective of the producer of digital content and acquire key qualifications for their future careers. The presentations can be aimed at both a specialist audience and a non-specialist audience. Best practice examples can be developed through the presentation in learning groups and the students adopt the different perspectives of teaching and learning orientation. To this end, the first students are to be trained as tutors for the video lab at Faculty 10 as part of the project.
Applicants: Prof. Dr. Christoph Busch, Prof. Dr. Mary-Rose McGuire
Institute/(study) subject: School of Law, ELSI, IUWR
Other participants: Lennart Meyer, Kira-Sophie Hoffmann
LehrZeit 2020/21
The research project aims to develop practice-oriented, interdisciplinary teaching and learning concepts that integrate current discussions on the digitalization of society (Industry 4.0) into textile design. The aim is to creatively integrate digital and electronic media into textile practice and thus promote enthusiasm for experimentation, discovery and design in a combination of analog and digital.
Applicant: Prof. Dr. Birgit Haehnel
Institute/(study) subject: School 1, Textile Design
Other participants: Lena Küppers, M.A., Clara Greiwe, Frederique Harder, Natalia Weydandt, Natalie Korfmann
The importance of computer science is constantly increasing, both for everyday life and for many scientific disciplines. In view of this development, there is a need to familiarize students of non-technical courses with the functioning and interrelationships of digital systems. In order to achieve this, an interdisciplinary project group - consisting of musicians, musicologists and computer scientists - will design and conduct a seminar on the use of digital technologies in (music) computer science for music practice. In the actual seminar, students from the fields of music and computer science will work together to develop individual concepts for new musical interfaces and put them into practice. This ultimately means that new musical instruments and new types of interaction between people and musical instruments are developed using computer science tools. The seminar is therefore primarily aimed at the Q-goal of interdisciplinarity.
Applicant: Philip Schwarzbauer, B.A.
Institute/(study) subject: Institute of Musicology and Music Education, Institute of Computer Science
Other participants: Prof. Dr. Michael Oehler, Prof. Dr. Michael Brinkmeier, Tray Minh Voong, M.A, Cedric Kreye, Julius Monska, Benedict Saurbier, Jiska Schmidt
With the help of this project, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary activities such as research projects, theses and student projects, such as those that have been carried out at the Institute of Environmental Systems Research for ten years, are to be linked together. The aim is to achieve continuity in such projects, exploit synergies and achieve a greater depth of content and a higher degree of concretization. In this way, the Solution Lab also aims to generate a real-world, transformative impact in Osnabrück.
Applicants: Dr. Johannes Halbe, Prof. Claudia Pahl-Wostl
Institute/subject: Institute of Geography, degree programs Geography and Environmental Systems Science
Other participants: Malin Johanna Pape, Hannes Wender
The aim of the "Global (seminar) room" project is to design and implement an English-language "joint classroom" course on the topic of globalization, i.e. a course that is held jointly with teachers and students from foreign universities. The planned joint classroom course will build on Osnabrück University's digital teaching and learning infrastructure and test its use in an international context. Blended learning approaches will be used to achieve a didactically meaningful combination of traditional face-to-face courses and modern forms of e-learning. This will give participants the opportunity to analyse and discuss globalization issues with students and lecturers from both Osnabrück University and a foreign university in a joint course. The project thus aims to contribute to the further internationalization of teaching at the Institute of Geography and Osnabrück University as a whole.
Applicant: Dr. Philip Verfürth
Institute/subject: Institute of Geography
Other participants: Prof. Martin Franz, Utku Eren Bağcı (teaching staff), Rebaz Ahmad, Jan Heuer, Steffen Lotz, Adrian Vogt (students)
The laboratory capacities of School 5 are to be expanded with an innovative digital laboratory. The central objective of the "Modul_OS" project is to set up a corresponding digital platform on which interactive laboratory settings are designed and implemented by lecturers, which supplement face-to-face practicals (possibly even replacing them completely during the corona period) and reduce laboratory utilization. In addition, the digital laboratory can be used not only by lecturers but also by students to secure laboratory content in the long term and sustainably for future generations of students and their own career-oriented professional skills development. Free access to all laboratory settings in an intra-university area also makes it possible for students to continue their own independent, interdisciplinary further education beyond their own subjects. The digitalization of laboratory content also represents an innovative offer for students who, for various reasons, are unable to take part in practical phases or can only do so temporarily. Last but not least, a publicly accessible area of the digital laboratory can be used for science communication formats.
Applicant: Prof. Dr. Marco Beeken, M.Ed. Frauke Brockhage, Prof. Dr. Arne Möller, Dr. Dominique Remy
Institute/(study) subject: School of Biology/Chemistry 5 (cooperation project of the study subjects Biology, Chemistry and Didactics of Chemistry)
Other participants: Prof. Dr. Michael Brinkmeier, Dr. Ulrich Wahlbrink, Lars Otte, Mattis Osterheider, Pascal Pilla, Vanessa Oellig, Antonia Teipen, Laura Rosenbaum
The aim of the project is to offer a seminar that takes into account the qualification objectives of scientific and interdisciplinary nature and at the same time is digital in its fundamental essence. The plan is to teach the concept of the computational notebook, a living online document that makes it possible to link computer-based information (code, data, statistics) with narrative, multimedia and graphic representations. In this way, interactive documents with many explanations and examples can be created, which can be tried out and varied directly via the browser. Students and teachers can use it to open their data and update the corresponding time series, share the narratives behind their calculations and enable future collaboration and innovation.
Applicants: David Dornekott, M. Sc., Lisardo Erman, M. Sc.
Institute/(study) subject: School 9, Marketing/Macroeconomics
Other participants: Prof. Valeriya Dinger, Prof. Bernhard Baumgartner/p>
Assuming social responsibility while at the same time creating incentives for new ideas - patent law stands for the fact that legal science and practice belong together more closely than almost any other area of law. Learning and applying patent law requires legal knowledge as well as an understanding of and insight into economic and technical structures. The project aims to inspire students for patent law in research and practice. Patent law is also to be taught with its links to economics and technology.
PatentRechtPlus will consist of several modules:
- Introductory lecture as a hybrid format with instructional videos (Opencast) and online learning checks (Vips)
- Research podcasts in which post-doctoral researchers present their current projects
- Practice podcasts in which practitioners explain a specific topic from their everyday work together with researchers or students
- Essay project in which interested students can work scientifically on the online platform Etherpad with the support of young academics in order to apply what they have learned directly
Applicants: Dipl. jur. Lukas Bartke, Dipl. jur. Daniel Skiebe
Institute/(study) subject: Institute of Commercial and Economic Law
Other participants: Prof. Dr. Mary-Rose McGuire, Christian Ende, Nora Gillmann, Kira-Sophie Hoffmann, Aaron Sommer
LehrZeit 2019/20
Interlocking of lecture content from courseware, lecture, milestones and coding class
Applicants and participants: AG Didaktik der Informatik with Sven Klecker, Elisaweta Ossovski, Marc Franke, Max König, Lara McDonald, Julius Monska, Pascal Piede, Ann-Katrin Becker, Laura Hembrock, Daniel Kalbreyer, Prof. Dr. Michael Brinkmeier
As part of the pilot project, a model for the integration of legal tech into legal training at Osnabrück University is to be designed and tested in practice.
Applicants and participants: Prof. Dr. Christoph Busch, Stud. iur. Alexander Andrée, Stud. iur. Maximillian Ertel, Dipl. iur. Kai Hindahl, Stud. iur. Valerie Ludwig, Stud. iur. Hannes Nagel, Jannis Vogel, M.Sc. Information Systems, Stud. iur. Christopher Ziehe
New structures for attractive subject master's programs in the humanities: The aim of this LehrZeit project is to fundamentally define a common core curriculum for subject-specific master's education in the humanities, to describe it precisely in terms of content and to organize it effectively in formal terms. This core curriculum includes elements such as "Philosophy of Science in the Humanities", "Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in the Humanities" and "Humanities as Practice and in Practice" and is to be implemented as an orientation and introductory module in the individual Master's programs for all Master's students in the School of Language and Literary Studies.
Applicants and participants: Judith Amelung, Jens Bonk-Wiltfang, Anna Moira Hotz, Johanna Kluger, Marie Thiele and Laura Wagner (project team); Prof. Dr. Olav Krämer, Roswitha Papenhausen, Prof. Dr. Peter Schneck (advisory members)
LehrZeit 2018/19
Redesigning a course using the flipped classroom approach: The aim is to partially digitize a traditional course in order to improve learning success through a more flexible, interactive and interesting learning experience.
Applicants and participants: Alena Droit (M.Sc.), Prof. Dr. Bodo Rieger, Katharina Beckwermert, Jasmin Bonhage, My-Linh Duong, Michael Krawczyk, Jon Oodes, Valerie Siegl, Daniel Stattkus, Alissa Volpert
Institute/(Study)Subject: School of Business Administration and Economics - Management Support and Information Systems
HörWissen. Research - Staging - Sounding: The aim is to design and implement a practice-oriented radio drama seminar in which history and stories are generated from historical sources (text, images, music), arranged dramaturgically and staged with voices, noises and sounds. In this innovative teaching format, students learn to work in an interdisciplinary way and to transfer historical knowledge into narrative-auditive formats in an intermedial way.
Applicants and participants: Sarah-Christin Bartel (B.A.), Andreas Schönwitz (B.A.), Luna Kahmann (B.A.), Annegret Kelsch (B.A.), Jessica Bücker (B.A.), Prof. Dr. Stefan Hanheide, Prof. Dr. Siegrid Westphal, Dr. Volker Arnke, Dr. Katja Barthel, Dr. Stefanie Freyer, Julian zur Lage (M.A.)
Institute/(Study)Subject: School of Cultural Studies and Social Sciences - History, Educational and Cultural Studies - Musicology and School of Language and Literary Studies - German Studies
Module "Native Biodiversity" - Flora and Fauna of Central Europe: The aim is to develop a basic module "Native Biodiversity" for teaching botanical and zoological species knowledge (lecture series as well as student-organized exercises and excursions), mainly supported by students.
Applicants and participants: Lisa Grützmacher, Felix Przesdzink, Rob Imeyer, Jasmin Vlasak-Drücker, Dr. Dominique Remy, apl. Prof. Dr. Thomas Fartmann, apl. Prof. Dr. Klaus Mummenhoff, apl. Prof. Dr. Barbara Neuffer, apl. Prof. Günter Purschke, Prof. Dr. Christian Kost, Prof. Dr. Achim Paululat, Prof. Dr. Chadi Touma, Prof. Dr. Sabine Zachgo
Institute/(Study)Subject: School of Biology/Chemistry
Service Learning: Commitment to integration in and through sport: The project involves the development, implementation and curricular anchoring of a service learning project in sport (theoretical seminar and practical components) with a charitable connection to people with a migration background who are in need of support.
Applicants and participants: Lena Haase, Imke Weßling, Torben Bennink, Gwen May, Lisa Hörnschemeyer, Lorena Menze, Junior Prof. Dr. Ahmet Derecik
Institute/(study) subject: School of Sport and Exercise Science
Networking of scientific and didactic teaching in mathematics in the Bachelor's degree program in Education: The connections between the (rather abstract) scientific content and concepts in mathematics on the one hand and the technical requirements in mathematics lessons at school on the other are to be worked out and made clear with new teaching concepts in mathematics and mathematics didactics.
Applicants and participants: Maike Drosten, Mona Gerve, Lea-Marie Sieve, Johanna Visser, Prof. Dr. Holger Brenner, Prof. Dr. Hedwig Gasteiger, AD Christoph Hammer, Dr. Judith Plümer, Prof. Dr. Oliver Röndigs
Institute/(Study)Subject: School of Mathematics/Computer Science - Institute of Computer Science