The Corona pandemic has clearly demonstrated the need for university teaching to be flexible and adaptable to different life situations. In this context, the use of hybrid teaching offers the opportunity to participate virtually in events taking place on campus and to interact with those physically present. This also opens up new possibilities for teaching itself, for example by making it easier to integrate international guests or practice partners.
For an ideal implementation, however, there is still a lack of mature didactic concepts and corresponding training and further education offers for the teachers. It is particularly challenging to make the digitized and analog learning environments equally attractive and interactive in hybrid teaching-learning settings, or to address both learning groups simultaneously and enable collaborative work.

With a view to the needs of students in the Professional School’s part-time study programs, the opportunities and possibilities of using hybrid teaching will be explored, especially for the international study programs. In addition, the project investigates how the necessary technical and didactic requirements and concepts for the design of hybrid teaching-learning scenarios can be improved and further developed.
The goal is to develop various didactic scenarios and concepts (e.g., for different learning groups, group sizes, subject content, and competency goals), test them with teaching and student pilot groups, evaluate them, and make them available as a collection of best practices not only for all Leuphana teachers, but also to use them to help shape the ongoing national and international discussion about hybrid teaching-learning scenarios.

Jointly developed training and continuing education programs are planned for the teachers of the Professional School and also for all teachers at Leuphana. In order to be able to implement hybrid courses flexibly in different rooms, the existing basic room equipment is to be supplemented with mobile video conferencing sets and other tools such as smartboards with integrated cameras and meeting-owls and tested in different settings.