Teaching Vision
Teaching Vision - Draft (as of: May 7, 2021)
TU Dresden is an institution of excellent academic teaching and research. Amongst its community of researchers, lecturers, and students, it inspires and facilitates enthusiasm and intellectual curiosity for knowledge development, knowledge transfer and lifelong study. Learners and teachers assume joint responsibility for successful teaching. We acknowledge teaching, learning and examination as synergistic components fundamental to the production of knowledge. With this in mind, TU Dresden ensures adequate equipment and sufficient freedom to think creatively and further develop teaching, learning and examination.
Teaching at TU Dresden is characterized by flexible and individualized teaching as well as learning opportunities that address the diversity of students, all the while opening up possibilities for individual and flexible study and promoting the personal development of students. Digitalization is also used to make allowances for the individual circumstances of students. We consider international networking and mobility, family-friendliness, as well as inclusive, diversity-sensitive and democratic cooperation to be essential elements of the teaching, learning and research culture.
Teaching at TU Dresden promotes open discourse, critical thinking and self-reflection. The goal is the development of highly professional and interdisciplinary competences that are indispensable for solving the complex problems of the 21st century. At the same time, teaching encourages students to also assume social responsibility. The wide range of subjects on offer at TU Dresden means that it is predestined to combine technical innovations with social and cultural developments.
Teaching at TU Dresden is characterized by a research-guided, interdisciplinary and accessible range of courses. It takes place both on site and online, and involves extramural institutions and actors. A plethora of methods are used to meet the needs of specific target groups.
This vision constitutes the starting point for the further development of TU Dresden as a regionally anchored yet globally-oriented teaching and learning hub of the future.