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Topics: Flexible studying, sustainable studying, individual course of study, pilot study programs and projects, cross-course transfer, university-wide project week
Sub-project of making the study programs at Fulda University more flexible
Location: Fulda University
Pilot project bachelor’s degree program “Management in Health Care (MIG)
In the Department of Health Sciences (GW), more flexible study formats are being developed with the aim of responding even more closely to the needs of students with professional qualifications. The focus is on making the methodological and spatial dimensions more flexible. A weekly change between online and face-to-face teaching should be established.
There is also consensus among the group of students with professional qualifications that personal exchange during face-to-face phases is valuable and desirable.
At the same time, this group faces special challenges, be it working during their studies, family obligations or the commute in order to be able to complete their studies in person. In this pilot project, the challenges mentioned are met with a flipped classroom model, which enables deep and therefore sustainable learning through a combination of self-learning units and a weekly change between synchronous online and face-to-face teaching units. The systematic weekly alternation between online learning phases and face-to-face phases enables learning progress to be promoted through constant contact. It is crucial that the modules are studied one after the other.
The flexibility model has a high potential for adaptation and could be transferred in an adapted form to the bachelor's degree programs in nursing, physiotherapy and vocational health education and further developed based on the specific needs of the students in these degree programs.
