About the Journal
Lessons Learned deals with current developments in digital and hybrid teaching. Newly developed forms of teaching and learning from all subject areas of university teaching will be discussed, as will digital examination concepts and the evaluation of new teaching and learning concepts.
Current Issue
The second issue of the third year of the Lessons Learned Journal draws on some of the contributions from the fifth Lessons Learned conference in summer 2023. The contributions show - and this is as surprising as it is gratifying - that the contribution structure has changed over the course of the Lessons Learned conferences. While in the first years the focus was clearly on the findings from the corona semesters and thus clearly structured assignments of articles to individual subject areas were possible, we now see a holistic approach to the renewal of academic teaching, which is actually reflected in all contributions. This leads to the problem that a simple sorting of articles by categories such as "Flipped Classroom" or "Teaching Videos" is no longer possible (this time the sorting is simply by date of receipt). On the other hand, it is the gratifying document of the fact that the momentum created by the developments of the corona crisis has now become a permanent element in the development of academic teaching.
In addition, we see throughout the articles an intense desire on the part of teachers to incorporate student feedback into the development of their teaching. This results in truly student-centered teaching, and this can be seen in a wide variety of teaching and learning forms. The topic of evaluating teaching can be found in many articles and is also the subject of a separate article in this issue - and thus perhaps an impetus to look for evaluation options for teaching yourself, possibly using the modular system proposed in this article in order to go far beyond the standardized teaching evaluations of universities to obtain real feedback from students.
This is only the first part of the contributions to the fifth Lessons Learned Conference. We anticipate that another, more extensive section will be published in the first half of 2024 in the first issue of Volume 4 of the Lessons Learned Journal. And with that, I can already invite you to the sixth Lessons Learned Conference, which will take place in summer 2024 and which we hope - like the previous conference - will have a massive impact on the development of academic teaching.
Stefan Odenbach
