Study organization
The redesign of the study organization aims to give students the opportunity to design their studies more flexibly and individually. The implementation of simplified administrative processes and more flexible modular structures is the prerequisite for this individual design of studies. The university thus provides a dynamic learning environment that enables students to develop their skills to the full and prepare successfully for the demands of their professional future.
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What do we want?
By 2030, TU Dresden aims to create a study environment that enables students to actively and individually shape their studies. This is to be achieved through the implementation of simplified, digitalized administrative processes and an individual module composition. Modularization offers flexible development opportunities and should be digitally supported by a modern and functional study performance management system (SLM).
Where do we want to go?
In terms of study organization, administrative processes must be simplified. This includes the study schedule, course management, room planning and examination management, which all come together in one system. Greater modularization and digital administration will make it possible to change courses up to the end of the first year of study (Bachelor) or the first semester (Master).
We strive to make teaching practical and career-oriented. Modularization and certification make it easy to connect to courses offered by various educational institutions, for example in the context of further education and lifelong learning. Interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary cooperation with a wide range of partner institutions can be promoted through project modules.
The project orientation enables the design of individual learning paths. "Container" modules and specializations are possible via tracks and subject-specific content (courses), which are shown on the certificate. Students have the opportunity to have modules from other, similar degree programs credited as elective modules.
We plan to integrate modules into study regulations that create scope for current and experimental design in terms of content, method, prerequisites and examination performance. In addition, we are striving to improve the import and export of modules into existing degree programs.
How do we achieve this?
Study organization:
- Integration of all study organization aspects in an online portal (course organization, examination management, offers from other universities and other educational institutions)
- Common digital course catalog and module database
- Shortening the processing times of study documents as quickly as possible (for updating modules)
Makingteaching practical and career-oriented:
- Micro-certification and simplified recognition of examination results by other educational institutions
Modularization:
- Project module:
- Integration of project modules as "container modules"
- Anchoring OER in the qualification objectives
- Open definition of module content when determining cooperation with external partners
- Project module can be studied without prerequisites
- Assessment is the portfolio
- Combination of project course and moderated cooperation
- Provision and concrete planning of project spaces
- Project week:
- Definition of project weeks in the winter and summer semesters
- Faculty-wide debate on the content of the project modules and agreements with external cooperation partners
- Certification for external students is only possible on the basis of preliminary interpersonal agreements between the project partners