In teaching, ongoing research meets bright minds. I love to include my work from research projects or experiences from my startup company in my teaching. Students take part in the scientific process and discussions, they get the freshest research results, ideas, and methods. They experience and shape research hands-on.
My teaching is mostly interdisciplinary as most topics concerning media, technology, and society require different perspectives such as psychology, communication and media studies, or computer sciences. As a result, research methods and didactics are tailored to the specific topic in focus of each course.
To build a constructive, communicative and open learning environment in my courses, I use various didactic methods and tools, depending on the goals of the course and the prior knowledge of the students, i.e. from introductory courses to research seminars. I am very happy that my university honored my teaching methods by awarding me the teaching award 2021 for learning supportive application of digital technologies.
I usually teach courses within my areas of research, but I also give introductory courses in academic writing and research methods. My courses include literature seminars, research seminars/projects, tutorials, and lectures.
Life-long learning is not just a buzz word. Professional development in teaching is very important to me. I’m part of a learner’s community for best practices and digital teaching tools and participate in workshops to improve teaching at universities regularly. I also conduct course evaluations for every course I teach and try to improve each semester. 🙂