Advice Services

• Do you have questions about your teaching plan or need feedback on your syllabus?
• Are you looking for new ways to vary your teaching?
• How can I motivate my students to participate more?
• Have you experienced a challenging situation in your teaching and would like to reflect on this with someone who has an outside perspective?

The general university didactics team at the ZiLL offers the following support:

• University didactics advice service
• Peer advising
• Class observation
• Teaching profile coaching

The digital teaching team supports you when it comes to both general and subject-specific pedagogical matters involved in teaching with digital media. They bridge the gap between the ZiLL and the four Schools of TU Dresden (Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, Engineering Sciences, Civil and Environmental Engineering), offering you support in making your digital teaching more professional:

• Media and university didactics
• Class observation
• Qualitative teaching evaluation (teaching analysis poll)
• Continuing education for university didactics

• Do you want to get more out of your OPAL course? 
• Are you planning to hold a computer-based exam?
• Are you looking for suitable ways to move your teaching methods to a virtual space?

The digital tools team is happy to help you select and implement appropriate e-learning tools available at TU Dresden. This also applies to holding computer-based examinations on the exam platform.  

• Would you like to know what options you have for creating educational videos?
• Do you want to create interactive videos for your students?
• Do you need help putting the finishing touches on self-shot videos?

At the research lab, you can get advice on creating teaching materials and try out various digital teaching methods for yourself.  

• Do you want to share your teaching materials with others? 
• What makes an OER good?
• What licenses are recommended?
• Where can good OERs for use in teaching be found?

If you make your own teaching materials and want to share them with others, the ZiLL team is happy to offer you guidance when it comes to open educational resources.