With the LEHRPREIS 2023, the BTU honors modules and module teams who show particular commitment to teaching-and-learning-processes and -environments to make studies more flexible in a diversity-sensitive way and thus create didactically sound innovative and forward-looking opportunities for the students to acquire competencies.

The award is intended to highlight the special appreciation of good university teaching and the associated teaching concepts.

The aim is to make visible examples of good teaching practice throughout the university and thus to encourage all lecturers to further develop and improve their teaching concepts and modules.

The Teaching Award is endowed with € 5,000.

Modules from the winter semester 2022/23 or the summer semester 2023 can be nominated.

Students and lecturers of the BTU as individuals and as student body or rather study- or teaching-committees of the faculties are entitled to nominate modules.

Single courses cannot be nominated, nor can teaching staff without naming a specific module. Moreover, all members of the current Teaching Award jury are excluded from self-application.

In addition to the formal criteria (see Who may submit proposals? and Documents to be submitted), the following qualitative criteria are of particular importance:

The module is characterized in particular by a flexible and diversity-sensitive learning environment with a didactically justified combination of synchronous and asynchronous teaching-learning units and is precisely integrated into the study programme concept, in particular:

• The living environment of students with the combination of phases of studying, working, as well as family care and/or caring for relatives is becoming increasingly heterogeneous: In the module, possibilities are used to make the acquisition of competencies more flexible organizationally and to strengthen the autonomy of the students, in particular by taking into account concepts of blended learning and hybrid learning arrangements, e. g.:
  • Learning situations were designed in the combination of synchronous and asynchronous learning phases, e. g. by designing self-learning/reflection phases
  • Learning environments were deliberately designed in order to translate the complexity resulting from the diversity of media in combination with the diversity of didactic aspects into manageable structures for the learners
  • through the use of learning materials that stimulate cognitive and motivational/emotional processes in the online learning phase
  • Attention was paid to regular feedback and feedback on learning success in both the face-to-face and online learning phases.

• The diversity of BTU students creates different prerequisites for access to the content of the study programme: In the module, the lecturer therefore creates opportunities to make the acquisition of competencies more flexible in terms of content and to promote the individual strengths and needs of the students. The following were used, for example,
  • alternatives in terms of content – the module adapts the course content (focus, electives) to the needs of the students
  • adaptable tasks and methods – case management, technical questions, individual or group tasks – for targeted support for different types of study and learning
  • alternating media – images, video and/or audio recordings, animations, texts – for the targeted accompaniment of different types of study and learning

In addition to that,

• gender and diversity aspects as well as accessibility of the studies offered are taken into account (e. g. with regard to language use, pictorial design, choice of case studies, choice of question types).

In addition to information about the module and the persons, the proposals must be accompanied by an informative rationale.

• Name of the module,
• Name of the lecturer(s),
• Semester in which the module was (last) held,
• Module description and
• Informative rationale: What is special about this module? Why does the module deserve the BTU's Teaching Award? (see the description of the criteria).

Please use the Word form  or PDF form and submit the proposals by e-mail to Study Programme Development and Quality Management (lehrpreise(at)b-tu.de)  by November 19, 2023.

After receiving the proposals, the jury selects a maximum of 10 modules, taking into account the formal and qualitative criteria; these modules move on to the next selection round.

On the basis of the pre-selection, the module teams concerned are invited to present and eludicate their concept for the nominated module to the Teaching Award jury.

This event is open to the public. Following this, at the final selection meeting the jury will select the winning module form the modules presented.

The teaching award is a student award, therefore students are represented on the jury with at least one more vote.

Composition of the jury:

• Vice President for Academic Affairs
• Teaching Award winners of the previous year
• Lecturers
• Research assistants
• Students