Educational Psychology To Go: Impulses for Effective University Teaching

How much of your teaching actually reaches your students – and how sustainably does it support their learning?

These are the questions we will explore in a short input session with brief exchange phases, inviting you to rethink your teaching with impulses from educational psychology. The focus will be on the optimal use of students’ cognitive resources (Cognitive Load), the design of meaningful assessment processes, and the promotion of self-regulated learning.

Compact, practice-oriented, and directly applicable to university teaching – for anyone who wants to support student learning effectively and based on evidence.

Date & Time: Mon, July 7, 2025 | 12:00 – 1:30 PM

The event will take place in German in the following Zoom room: https://tu-darmstadt.zoom-x.de/j/68210490117

Participation is possible without prior registration.

Organized and facilitated by:

• Dr. Thorsten Aichele, Zentrum für wissenschaftliche Bildung und Lehre, Universität Würzburg
• Dr. Natalie Enders, wiss. Mitarbeiterin Psychologie, Universität Hildesheim,
• Dr. Annette Glathe, Hochschuldidaktische Arbeitsstelle, TU Darmstadt;
• Martina Mörth, Berliner Zentrum für Hochschullehre,
• Josefine Marquardt u. Tobias Weber, Zentrum für interdisziplinäres Lernen u. Lehren, TU Dresden
• Dr. Stefan Siegel, Institut für Wirtschaftspädagogik, Universität St. Gallen

Background & Target Audience:

This event was developed by the cross-university Working Group on Teaching and Learning Research of the German Society for Higher Education Didactics (dghd), with contributions from staff at the Center for Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching (ZiLL) at TU Dresden. It is primarily aimed at professors across Germany but is also open to other interested participants.