Centre for Teaching and Learning (ZLL)

Willkommen beim Zentrum für Lehre und Lernen

A warm welcome

on the website of the Center for Teaching and Learning (ZLL)

The Center for Teaching and Learning (ZLL) has been supporting studies and teaching at the university as a central unit since 2021. In line with the mission statement for teaching, we work with Faculties and central institutions to develop study preparation and support programmes. We offer students seminars and workshops on key competences, practical skills and soft skills as well as learning materials and advice. The aim is to provide students with the best possible support during their studies and prepare them for professional life. We support lecturers in designing courses and offer didactic training and technical resources. As a research-based institution, we network regionally and internationally and bring research findings back to the university. We also create the framework conditions for curriculum development and advise the university management as an interface between different stakeholder groups.

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Call for Contributions

Writing Fellows transformed - new perspectives on a programme in transition Writing Fellow programmes based on the American model have existed at various university locations in Germany for around ten years - initially introduced at the universities of Frankfurt am Main and Frankfurt an der Oder. Since then, the programmes, sometimes under different names (writing assistants, textographers, etc.), have established themselves as a successful model for supporting academic writing. The planned publication builds on the volumes Das Writing Fellow-Programm and Lehren und Lernen mit Writing Fellows (Voigt/Dreyfürst/Liebetanz, Voigt, both wbv 2018). If you are interested in participating, you will find all information on the following page.

Successful networking meeting

On 28 November 2025, the first Brandenburg networking meeting "Teaching and Studying at Brandenburg Universities" successfully took place at the Viadrina. Around 40 participants from all over Brandenburg discussed the topic: Interspaces - how does interdisciplinary teaching succeed?

Free places in the SQB workshops

There are still places available in the following SQB workshops for all interested teachers: Designing blended learning teaching units in diverse settings to promote learning (18/11/2025, online), AI tools as activating companions for peer learning (01/08/12/2025, online) and Flipped Classroom - How to didactically flip courses to promote active learning (from 05/01/2026, online). If you are interested, you are welcome to register via the SQB homepage.

AI interface in Moodle

The latest Moodle version 5.0 offers exciting AI-supported functions that you can now try out for yourself in our Moodle test environment. Whether automatic text and image generation or the intelligent summarisation of page content - the new interface opens up a wide range of possibilities to support your teaching. We cordially invite you to actively use the test environment and find out how AI tools can enrich your everyday Moodle life and your teaching. Your feedback on the usability and usefulness of the functions is of great value to us - and will flow directly into further development. Registration is only possible with your EUV access data. The test system is only accessible in the university network and via VPN.

Centre for Teaching and Learning

Logenstraße 11 | 15230 Frankfurt (Oder)
Room: LH 211
0335 - 5534 2540
zll@europa-uni.de

Dates and events

Dec

Thursday 13.00

Community of Practice: Culture of sharing from the beginning - teachers and open practices

Open educational practices arise where teachers share materials, ideas and experiences and thus make their teaching visible, usable and developable. But how do you establish a culture of sharing in everyday school and university life? And how does it remain sustainable, especially when AI-supported tools raise completely new questions? Melanie Dahm, a teacher in the health department at a vocational school in Lower Saxony and a consultant for school innovations, and Matthias Söll, Professor of Business Didactics at the University of Rostock and operator of an open teaching blog, will share their experiences with us. After the impulses, there will be plenty of room for your questions, experiences and contributions to the discussion: your own reports are expressly welcome! Registration for the online meeting is possible at any time via kontakt@co-woerk.de.

Jan

Thursday 13.00

Community of Practice: Legal issues in dialogue - you ask, we answer

If you want to share your own teaching materials with others and publish them openly, you inevitably have to deal with copyright. Thanks to Creative Commons licences (CC licences), it is relatively easy to provide and edit educational resources while complying with legal requirements. However, it is quite normal for one or two uncertainties to arise in practice, especially in the age of AI. For example, when do we speak of "personal intellectual creation"? When is content "in the public domain"? What do freelance teachers need to bear in mind when publishing materials as OER? And what does CCPlus actually mean? We want to give your questions a forum and invite you to ask them anonymously in this Etherpad until 9 January 2026. Henry Steinhau from iRightsLab will answer the questions as part of our Community of Practice on 15 January from 1pm to 2pm. There will also be enough time for spontaneous (follow-up) questions. Take the opportunity to work together to ensure greater clarity in terms of OER and legal certainty! You can register for the online meeting at any time via kontakt@co-woerk.de.

Jan

Thursday 10.00

OER Workshop Day

The Co-WOERK project officially invites you to a workshop day on 29 January under the motto: Designing open teaching materials. It will start with an online keynote and public viewing by Nadine Linschinger (University of Graz) on the topic "Let's level up together: Impulses for an open educational practice" at 10 a.m. in GD 03.

Our offer

Student sitzt am Laptop im Vorlesungssaal

Seminars and workshops

Here you will find all information about our current offers.

arbeiten am comuter, ein Laptop jemand arbeitet

Learning material and tools

Discover the essential tools for effective online learning and teaching - from Zoom to Moodle to Panopto and more! Design your learning environment today.

The writing centre

The Writing Centre at the European University Viadrina is the central point of contact for all activities relating to the key competence of writing.

Centre for Teaching and Learning

Große Scharrnstraße 59
15230 Frankfurt Oder
0335 - 5534 2540
zll@europa-uni.de
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Viadrina OnlineLab

Studierende arbeiten im Team, kleben Aufkleber auf das Glas, machen ein Brainstorming, machen Notizen

Become a tutor yourself

Find out here how you can become a tutor yourself and what steps you need to take!

Transfer

Transfer promotes the exchange between science and practice and supports students and lecturers in the development and implementation of forward-looking educational projects.

Wort "Forschung" auf Scrabble-Brett, Ansicht von oben

Research

The series "Schreiben im Zentrum - Beiträge zur Schreibzentrumsforschung" publishes research papers that deal empirically or theoretically with the work of writing centres. Access to the series is open worldwide and free of charge on the document server of the European University Viadrina.

Publications

At a glance: here you will find a collection of all publications, articles and contributions from the Center for Teaching and Learning

Teaching development at the Viadrina

Sustainable curricula

The skills-oriented further development of degree programmes and curricula on digitalisation, sustainability, diversity and future skills is a cultural change process that we support with our expertise.

Further training programmes for teachers

Our further training courses for teachers offer you exactly the support you need to optimise your teaching methods.

The Teaching Newsletter is produced by the Center for Teaching and Learning at regular intervals. It provides information about new innovative forms of teaching and formats.

Challenge-Based Learning

Challenge-Based Learning (CBL) at the Viadrina links academic issues with real social challenges, often in co-operation with external partners. The aim is to enable students to think and act in a sustainable way.

Writing-intensive teaching

Do you want to make your students better writers and critical thinkers? Our writing-intensive teaching programmes provide you with the tools and methods to teach writing skills effectively. You can also find all information about the Writing Fellow Programme here.

Further training programmes for teachers

Our further training courses for teachers offer you exactly the support you need to optimise your teaching methods.

Projects

PROKODIL

As part of the project, the Digital Teaching Cooperation Groups programme strives to enrich the education system through the use and promotion of Open Educational Resources (OER). These freely accessible teaching and learning materials ...

Ukraine Digital

As part of the DAAD project "UA digital", the European University Viadrina supports students and lecturers from Ukrainian partner universities in continuing their studies digitally and maintaining a digital course programme.

SKILL

The SKILL project is a cooperation between the European New School of Digital Studies (ENS), the Centre for Teaching and Learning (ZLL) and the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Together, they are developing a social science AI laboratory for research-based learning (SKILL).

Co-WOERK

Co-WOERK networks stakeholders for open educational materials in Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and nationwide. In monthly online meetings of a community of practice, we strengthen OER competences in university teaching and vocational education.

ERUA

The European University Viadrina has been a member of the European Reform University Alliance (ERUA) since November 2023 and, together with the ZLL, is responsible for the area of "Student Engagement".

DAAD-ERUA-Viadrina

The DAAD-ERUA-Viadrina project is funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and contributes to several work packages within the European Reform University Alliance (ERUA).

A warm welcome

on the website of the Center for Teaching and Learning (ZLL)