5. process, structural and result quality
The Steering Committee, supported by an external Advisory Board, ensures the quality of processes, structures and results through the strategic coordination of implementation and transfer, evaluation and continuous exchange. The Steering Committee reports to the Teaching Coordination Staff at the Vice-Rector Academic Affairs and the Standing Committee of the Senate. It advises and supports the Integration Team in the planning and implementation of regular strategy meetings in order to review and evaluate results. The integration team also organizes review meetings (see Fig. 4) for discussion and transparent quality assurance, also with external guests (from research, university development and university didactics) as well as public exchange formats (such as the final conference, see Fig. 4), based on the experiences of the future labs and the well-established Lessons Learned series at TUD. In the HYBRID strategy, the integration team formulates recommendations for sustainable integration and change management in consultation with the Steering Committee and Advisory Board. In addition to these structural elements that promote university-wide quality development, the internal error culture is of particular importance for virTUos' open approach. It follows the logic of a design thinking approach: Interdisciplinarily developed concepts are quickly put to an initial test and evaluated from multiple perspectives. Development potential and desired irritations in the process are considered and evaluated in the form of internal innovation team retrospectives and used to derive lessons learned. The quality of the didactic interventions, like all courses in university didactics at TUD, is based on the quality standards for university didactic practice of the German Association for University Didactics (dghd). The quality analysis of the courses is integrated into the quality management system and the relevant support structures of the TUD (Center for Quality Analysis, ZQA) and is qualitatively examined in a complementary manner, e.g. in the form of Teaching Analysis Polls and cross-course formative interviews. The quality of project collaboration is evaluated in an agile manner (retrospectives & review meetings). The results of quality assurance are not only reflected on at the review and strategy meetings, but are also publicly reported at the final conference and in the context of OEP and OER materials.
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