Module 1: Getting started: "Designing your own Online Course" (8 units)

Participants will consider the main issues of teaching and learning. During the workshops there will be an opportunity to get familiar with didactic approaches, to analyze methodological tasks and put them into practise, as well as to exchange experiences and problems of teaching practice. The basics of higher education didactics and writing, teaching-learning theories, activating methods and Challenge Based Learning will be presented. There will be discussions on competency-based learning activities and successful lessons planning.

The participants are offered workshops on 4 main topics, each of which includes 4 units* or working units. Everyone chooses at least two topics that are most relevant to their own context. Participants can attend all 4 workshops if they wish, but only two of the selected topics will be counted as part of the certificate.

Module 2: Development of individual subject areas (10 units)

Module 2 offers activities on various topics. The choice of individual workshops is related to the individual learning interests and needs of the participants with the aim of further self-development and improvement of personal pedagogical skills. In this module the participants of the certificate program complete a number of workshops with a total of 8 units.

Module 3: Practice module (16 units)

Participants design and then present their own plan for a learning session in the context of a specific course, which they themselves design, implement and evaluate. In addition, they write a reflection on their teaching concept and receive feedback from students as well as from experts from the Centre for Teaching and Learning.

*1 unit = 45 min.

• Please register for the workshop no later than the day before it takes place.
• Participation in the programme is free of charge. We expect from you your active involvement and cooperation.
  If you have already participated in the certificate programme last year, you can repeat it and select further workshops that might be helpful for your further teaching work.

• Note that the following timetable is in Central European Time (CET). Please take into account the time difference.
• The day before the workshop we will send you an email with a Zoom link.
• We kindly ask you to take your registration for the workshop seriously and try to attend the event. If for any reason you are unable to attend, please let us know. We will try to record the workshops, but please be prepared that this will not always be possible.
• We expect you to write a reflection on each workshop you have attended. Please note that it should not be a summary of the workshop but your reflections on it.
  You can find the type form for registration here: https://form.typeform.com/to/X4mp6ftj

Writing in teaching (in English, 4 units) – Monday, April 24, 04:00 - 07:00 pm

In this workshop you will get to know writing as a tool that intensively promotes and supports (individual) learning processes. Writing is presented as a tool that helps to uncover ideas and gaps in our own thinking, to deal with different (new) points of view and to engage in exchange with others. This workshop offers you the opportunity to reflect on your own writing process and, in exchange with other teachers, to think about how writing can be used and implemented as a learning tool in your subject. You will learn methods to promote writing as a process in your teaching and to help students develop as writers.

Learning goals:

• get to know methods to support student writing processes within your subject;

• to become familiar with the basic concepts and key aspects of the writing process;

• reflect on your own writing experiences and exchange with other participants.

Facilitator:

Dorothée Schulz-Budick, M.A. - PhD candidate, academic project assistant in the field of quality development and online didactics at HTW Berlin University of Applied Sciences

Student-centered learning (in Ukrainian, 4 Units) –  Friday, April 28, 02:00-05:00 pm

An important part of the democratisation of the modern Ukrainian education system is the introduction of student-centered didactics. This is a didactic model in which students are seen as equal subjects who are actively involved in defining learning objectives, evaluating their performance and designing their own educational process. An essential component of this model is the inclusive consideration of the diversity of student needs and interests. An important prerequisite for success is the ability to influence students' motivation and activate their ability to be independent and responsible. Solving all these tasks is difficult in the context of distance education and requires special knowledge and skills from the teacher.

The training objectives are to help the participants:

• to understand the main approaches to the organisation of student-centered learning and the peculiarities of their implementation in distance education,
• to develop the ability to motivate students to learn actively and responsibly and to use digital teaching methods for this purpose,
• to get acquainted with the methods of inclusive learning in the mode of respect for diversity,
• learn about the methods of considering the needs and interests of students in the process of developing the content of individual educational components and the educational programme as a whole.

Facilitator:

Prof. Taras Butchenko - Head of Social Philosophy and Public Administration Department of Zaporizhzhya National University

How to design effective blended learning (in Ukrainian – 4 Units) – Friday, May 12, 03:00 - 07:00 pm

Blended learning combines the best of face-to-face and digital learning to ensure maximum learning success. Blended learning scenarios allow you to deliver courses that are adapted to your needs. In this workshop you will learn how to develop effective blended learning concepts step by step. You will have the opportunity to work out important basics for the design and control of individual learning units and to evaluate methods according to their didactic function for use in your own courses.

Learning goals:

• the participants know what blended learning is and know its advantages and possible applications;
• which framework conditions have to be considered when developing the concept and why;
• they will be able to develop learning modules and know when which learning format makes sense;
• the participants will know the importance and variety of social learning methods and will be able to integrate them into the learning process.

Facilitator:

Prof. Yuliia Prus, Associate Professor of the Department of Management and Administration, Karazin Business School, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University

Basics of Challenge-Based Learning (in English, 4 units) - Tuesday, May 23, 02:00 - 05:00 pm

Challenge-based learning (CBL) is a form of teaching/learning in which students acquire knowledge on the basis of real-life challenges that affect them by developing their own learning questions and working on them mostly on their own. CBL can be used to promote active participation of students and the assumption of responsibility for the learning process. It reinforces the link between theory and practice in the course and supports understanding of complex contexts. CBL helps learners acquire in-depth subject knowledge and develop the skills they need to succeed in an constantly changing world.

Learning goals:

• get to know the aims and basic principles of CBL,

• know how to integrate CBL concepts into your subject teaching.

Facilitators:

Niki Kasisis, M.A. - Academic staff member of the Centre for Teaching and Learning
Elena Schmid, B.A. - Research assistant of the Centre for Teaching and Learning

Teaching in Crisis: Strategies for Avoiding Faculty Burnout (in English, 1 unit) – Thursday, April 13, 02:00 - 03:00 pm

Even in so-called normal circumstances, teaching is a caring profession, putting professionals at increased risk for burnout. Burnout is now defined as a combination of all three traits:

• Feelings of energy depletion or exhaustion,

• Increased mental distance from one’s job, or feelings of negativism or cynicism related to one’s job [and],

• Reduced professional efficacy (Maslach and Leiter 2021).

In this workshop, we will discuss the implications of burnout and strategies for addressing it drawing on new research from Rebecca Pope-Ruark’s Unravelling Faculty Burnout (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022). We will begin with a self-assessment exercise and end with pathways for mitigating a common problem with structural roots.

Facilitator:

Prof. Andrea Scott (University of Chicago, Ph.D.) is a research associate at the Centre for Teaching and Learning at the European University Viadrina

Education digitalization: Interactive Online Teaching Through Video Conferencing (in Ukrainian, 2 units) – Tuesday, April 18, 05:00 - 07:00 pm 

With the transfer of courses into the digital space, lecturers and course leaders often face challenges. How can participants be enabled to interact and collaborate? Interactive conferencing methods help to convey knowledge and ideas in a versatile and engaging way. Learn how to harness the power of digital tools and platforms to create dynamic, engaging, and student-centered virtual learning experiences. We will share best practices, tips, and strategies to effectively facilitate discussions, encourage collaboration, and inspire students in a virtual environment.  Additionally, we will learn how to structurize the video material on your Moodle course. 

Learning goals:

• participants will learn how to design an interactive online seminar;

• what tools and technology are needed to make an effective teaching session.

Facilitator:

Oleksandr Poddenezhny - Head of the Centre for Electronic Education of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy

Trauma-Informed Approaches to Teaching and Learning (in English, 1 unit) – Thursday, April 20, 02:00- 03:00 pm

War is by definition traumatic. And this has dramatic impacts on teaching and learning. Studies show trauma-responses severely limit learning, trust, and relationships. Yet research also shows that trauma-informed approaches to teaching and learning can improve outcomes for both teachers and learners. Trauma-informed teaching is valued-based, offering faculty a set of principles from which to articulate practices. We will discuss these values, including safety, transparency, equity, collaboration, and agency, based on the research and practice of Professor Kirk Anderson and licensed therapist Rebecca Anderson at Dickinson College. Workshop participants will reflect on the values they already implement in their teaching and share strategies with each other to help address potential gaps. 

Facilitator:

Prof. Andrea Scott (University of Chicago, Ph.D.) is a research associate at the Centre for Teaching and Learning at the European University Viadrina

Immersive Learning Unleashed: Integrating AR, VR, and 3D Modeling in Education (in Ukrainian, 2 units) - Thursday, April 27, 05:00 - 07:00 pm 

Discover the transformative power of immersive technologies in the world of education at our upcoming webinar, tailored for educators seeking to innovate their teaching methods. This session will provide a base introduction to Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), and 3D modeling, and their potential applications in the learning process. We will share practical examples, strategies, and best practices for integrating these cutting-edge tools into your curriculum, enhancing student engagement, and fostering creativity. Attendees will gain insights into selecting the right technology, overcoming implementation challenges, and assessing the impact of these immersive experiences on student learning outcomes.

Facilitator:

Oleksandr Poddenezhny - Head of the Centre for Electronic Education of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy

Introduction of distance teaching for students with special educational needs (in Ukrainian, 2 units) – Wednesday, May 3, 03:00 – 05:00 pm

This workshop will provide recommendations to help you get started in creating an accessible, user-friendly, and inclusive online course for all students, including students with special educational needs. It will offer practical tips on how to design an inclusive course, as well as advice on how to optimise interaction with learners and students with special educational needs in the learning process. During the workshop, we will consider what inclusion looks like in the wartime dimension, what new challenges and perspectives arise from it.

Learnings goals:

• to gain basic knowledge about the possible impact of disability on learning, knowledge processing and knowledge reproduction;

• get acquainted with technical tools to ensure accessible online learning;

• to understand the role of the team approach in adapting educational materials for students with special needs.

Facilitator:

Prof. Olha Klopota - Associate Professor, Department of Social Work of Khortytsia National Academy

Inclusive Course Design: Fostering a Sense of Belonging Among Students (in English, 1 unit) – Thursday, May 4, 02:00- 03:00 pm

How can you help foster a sense of belonging in your students? We will discuss concrete strategies you can implement right away to help promote student success in your courses. Topics we will cover include approaches to valuing student assets, naming good work, providing high structure, and normalizing help-seeking behaviours.

Facilitator:

Prof. Andrea Scott (University of Chicago, Ph.D.) is a research associate at the Centre for Teaching and Learning at the European University Viadrina

Activating (online) teaching (in English, 2 units) – Monday, May 8, 04:00 – 06:00 pm

In this workshop you will learn about the influence of course design on a motivating working environment for both learners and teachers. We will look at the factors of "defining the target group", "formulating learning objectives" and "selecting and implementing methods". You will improve your didactic profile together with the other participants and get to know some activation methods that you can use both online and in the classroom. The workshop is aimed at all teachers who want to create a motivating and supportive learning environment and thus create opportunities for exchange among and with students in their (online) courses. Using different media and tools, you will learn to create closeness (even across distances) and to stay in contact with the students.

Learning goals:

• acquire basic knowledge of activating teaching in the context of course design;
• getting to know small and large activating (online) methods for event introductions as well as the phases of development, presentation and securing results;
• transfer of activating methods into your own teaching.

Facilitator:

Dorothée Schulz-Budick, M.A. - PhD candidate, academic project assistant in the field of quality development and online didactics at HTW Berlin University of Applied Sciences

Interactive tools and technologies for teaching in higher education (in Ukrainian – 2 Units) – Wednesday, May 10, 04:00 – 06:00 pm

Distance and blended learning, especially in wartime, is a challenge not only for students but also for their teachers. It is really not easy to organize high-quality online learning, to motivate, to increase the level of interest in the discipline and the involvement of students in the educational process. There are a lot of interactive teaching tools and technologies, but how do you choose something useful for yourself, and where do you find the time to master them? During our meetings, we will try to understand the peculiarities of using universal practical teaching tools and technologies, discuss the opportunities and problems of their use, and master some of them while working in small groups.

Taking this course will allow you to:

• get inspired by ideas for online lessons and projects;

• master digital services to create interesting tasks;

• gamify the learning process.

Let’s try to make our classes with students more interactive together!

Facilitator:

Prof. Yuliia Prus, Associate Professor of the Department of Management and Administration, Karazin Business School, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University

ChatGPT in Education: Exploring Opportunities and Addressing Challenges (in Ukrainian, 2 units) - Thursday, May 18, 05:00 - 07:00 pm

Join us for an enlightening webinar that will explore the rapidly evolving role of ChatGPT in the educational landscape. Designed for educators, this session will shed light on the potential benefits and challenges that AI-driven language models like ChatGPT bring to the education process. We will discuss innovative ways to integrate ChatGPT into the learning process while addressing concerns related to ethics, data privacy, and potential misuse. Learn how to navigate the world of artificial intelligence and leverage the power of ChatGPT to enhance learning outcomes, promote critical thinking, and foster collaboration among students. Register to stay ahead of the curve and make informed decisions about incorporating AI in your educational practice.

Facilitator: 

Oleksandr Poddenezhny - Head of the Center for Electronic Education of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy

Accessible documents for students with special education needs (in English, 1 unit) – Friaday, May 19, 03:00-04:00 pm

Digitisation has become an important issue, especially in the age of Corona. More than ever before, people with disabilities depend on accessible documents. This means, for example, that programmes such as screen readers can access the content, read it out correctly and thus enable access for people with severe visual impairments. To ensure this, the global standard ISO 14289-1 was introduced in 2012. The standard was designed with technical aspects in mind. This short guide will show you how to design your presentation in Power Point so that it is accessible. We will use Microsoft Office 365 for this purpose; there may be deviations with other versions.

 Team building as a strategy of higher education (in Ukrainian 2 units) - Monday, May 22, 02:00 - 04:00

Team-based learning is a useful didactic tool for developing students' ability to create and work in teams. The importance of this tool increases in the context of distance education: the mediation of communications between students and teachers by digital means complicates the process of student socialisation and the establishment of relationships within and outside the student environment. During the military conflict, this negative aspect of online learning becomes even more noticeable, in fact, it leads to the formation of a kind of isolation zone, in which students find themselves. In these conditions, team building as an educational technology creates the basis for increasing the social capital of all participants in the educational process and the country as a whole.

Learning objectives:

• to know the main stages of the team building process in a study group;
• ability to take into account the socio-psychological characteristics of students during team building;
• acquaintance with educational and training technologies of team building in distance learning.

Facilitator:

Prof. Taras Butchenko - Head of Social Philosophy and Public Administration Department of Zaporizhzhya National University

Teaching Troublesome Knowledge: Writing in the Disciplines (in English, 1 unit) – Thursday, June 1, 02:00- 03:00 pm

Scholars explore problems with no single, clear answer. How can you invite students to do the same? In this workshop we will introduce the concept of “threshold concepts” (Meyer and Land, 2016) to identify concepts and methods that may be strange, counter-intuitive, and uncomfortable to newcomers to your field. We will then discuss techniques for designing class activities and assignments that encourage students to practice these ways of knowing and doing in their writing and in class.

Facilitator:

• Prof. Andrea Scott (University of Chicago, Ph.D.) is a research associate at the Centre for Teaching and Learning at the European University Viadrina

Make It Stick: Helping Students Understand and Recall Their Learning (in English, 1 unit) - Thursday, June 8, 02:00- 03:00 pm

An important task of teaching is to impart knowledge. Students need a basic command of key concepts to put theory into practice as professionals. How can teachers actively and sustainably convey foundational knowledge to prepare students for disciplinary problem-solving? We will learn strategies for building student knowledge in a targeted way, including fostering the habits of mind valued in your field.

Facilitator:

• Prof. Andrea Scott (University of Chicago, Ph.D.) is a research associate at the Centre for Teaching and Learning at the European University Viadrina

The Future of Academic Writing and Its Instruction in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (in English, 1 unit) - Thursday, June 15, 02:00- 03:00 pm

The headlines are full of doomsday predictions about the fate of student writing in the age of ChatGPT. This workshop flips the question from what can AI do to what and why do I want my students to write? We will discuss the current limits of artificial intelligence to abstract meaning and to feel meaningful to readers, as well as the ways in which KI-produced texts obscure the social contexts of their sources. How can we make our writing assignments more meaningful to students? How do we build communities of trust in the classroom? How might KI invite us to think more deeply about the teaching of information literacy, including the ethical implications of knowledge and its construction? How do we empower students to use—or not use—KI tools with discernment?

Facilitator:

• Prof. Andrea Scott (University of Chicago, Ph.D.) is a research associate at the Centre for Teaching and Learning at the European University Viadrina

The complex approach of digitalization of the education process. How to keep the balance and save quality (in Ukrainian, 2 units) - Tuesday, July 11, 05:00 - 07:00 pm

The advent of technology, the Covid pandemic, and, afterward, war have caused profound changes in higher education, making digitalization a vital aspect of today's academic environment. Now some challenges often present teachers with the difficult task of adapting and balancing the educational process while maintaining its integrity and quality.

In this focused session, participants will gain insights into selecting appropriate technological tools, fostering digital literacy, ensuring accessibility, and implementing practical online assessments. We aim to equip educators with the tools to create a balanced, blended learning environment that fosters engagement, enriches the learning experience, and embraces the complexities of digital transformation in higher education. We will explore the essential strategies to seamlessly integrate digital components into your curriculum while upholding the quality and balance in the teaching-learning process.

Facilitator: 

• Oleksandr Poddenezhny - Head of the Center for Electronic Education of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy

Module III consists of reflections on the workshops you have attended and a final project - your own ideas for improving your teaching. This means that in addition to the reflections, we expect you to submit a final project in which you can integrate information or ideas from the trainings you have attended. This could be a presentation, an open text portfolio, a short video, etc. The project should show how you are implementing the ideas and knowledge gained during the trainings in your teaching practice and in your own further professional development.

In your reflections, please pay attention to the questions below:

• Your personal interest in choosing this particular programme and topic of the workshop;
• What happened during the workshop and how?
• What was the reason of your personal activity and behaviour during the and behaviour during the workshop?
• What influenced you during the workshop? What was good or what was not went well or not well?
• What was useful about this workshop? What will you take away from this workshop for for yourself in an unchanged form, what will you change and how will you use it?
• How do you see the perspectives of using the knowledge and approaches you have gained?

Please send your reflections by 16.07.2023 and the final project by 23.07.2023.