Forms of teaching and learning

The Faculty of Arts is facing increasing demands to offer the students more teaching and new and better forms of teaching. The faculty regards the use of digital media as a central way to develop new forms of teaching – combining study on campus with study off campus with the support of digital media, for instance.

The EDU-IT strategy relates to the faculty’s education strategy by:

• Helping to increase the students’ study intensity and the ongoing development of the digital study environment
• Strengthening the action and innovation competences of existing and new degree programmes by cooperating with the subject environments involved
• Strengthening the development of digital and innovative spaces for learning

In more specific terms, the faculty will:

1. Develop new forms of learning that are supported by technology (on campus)

EDU-IT is designed to contribute to the development of new forms of teaching and course activities which exploit the forms of communication, presentation and production of digital media with a view to motivating and involving the students in new ways and giving them increased opportunities for active participation in their own learning activities.

2. Develop digital competences

The teachers must systematically and continuously acquire (new) academic digital competences so they can exploit the learning potentials of (new) digital media, tools and resources.

3. Personalise the use of digital media in the form of the “seamless” use of technology

Teachers must be able to use the digital media that AU makes available to them as well as combining them with digital media of their own choice – thereby creating learning environments that support cooperation and knowledge sharing.