The three sTUDies 3.0 working groups have been working on their first tasks since the beginning of the year. 

You will find the proposals published on the Teaching Strategy News website. Please feel free to use the contact form to provide feedback on the proposals.

In the second cycle, skills-oriented teaching, sustainable teaching, and digitality in teaching will be taken into account.

sTUdies 3.0 teaching strategy is a program initiated by the Vice Rector of Academic Affairs and the Teaching Strategy Team to further develop and improve the quality of teaching and to strengthen the awareness of everyone's shared responsibility for learning and teaching. For this reason, the process of developing the teaching strategy has been designed from the outset in such a way that three teams across status groups will work together in weekly online meetings throughout 2023. In this way, the perspectives of all status groups and all areas of the teaching mission statement can be incorporated into the development of a proposal, as can the different experiences of the participants. They are supported by the expertise and know-how of nearly 40 other stakeholders from the TUD and partner organizations.

Agile project management has been adapted to the TUD context to ensure a stringent and sustainable way of working. To best support the additional workload of the group members, they work iteratively in a fixed meeting structure based on the SCRUM model. In this way, the participants know what each meeting is for and what goals are being pursued. The basis for their work is a work order and the associated input from other actors.

A common working environment is mapped in an OPAL course, where idea brainstorming can take place as well as collaborative work on a text. A common forum helps to exchange ideas on partial results or to take votes. This environment also helps to stay informed even if group members could not be present at individual meetings.

In the first cycle, the meeting structure was tested. A first retrospective helped to refine this structure for each working group, which will be implemented and further tested starting with the third cycle. The goal is to have developed an agile process by the end of 2023 that will enable sustainable development of the teaching strategy by cross-status group teams at TUD.