German-speaking SoTL network
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) is becoming increasingly popular in the community of university teachers and university didactics experts in Germany.
Why is SoTL interesting for teachers, university didactics experts and other stakeholders in teaching and learning? What does SoTL mean? How can SoTL be implemented in practice?
Following the interest in and feedback on SoTL at the dghd conference in March 2017, a German SoTL network was founded to start working together and thus promote the implementation of SoTL at German universities and the specific attitude towards university teaching that is associated with it. We want to exchange information about current implementation variants as well as possible implementations and network on SoTL in order to further prepare the ground for SoTL in Germany.
To this end, we invite all colleagues in university teaching, university didactics and employees in related fields who are interested in SoTL in theory and practice, are working on it and/or have already gained experience.
What SoTL means to us is summarised in this impulse paper.
The current team of speakers consists of:
Prof. Dr Maik Arnold (FH Dresden)
Dr Alexa Brase (University of Hamburg)
Dr Nerea V?ing (Paderborn University)'
Dr des. Stefka Weber
The network meetings take place twice a year at different locations. Each meeting is hosted by one of the colleagues organised in the network.
The following network meetings have taken place so far:
1. meeting: 11/2017 in Paderborn
2. meeting: 05/2018 in Bielefeld
3. meeting: 10/2018 in Kiel
4. meeting: 05/2019 in Osnabrück
5. meeting: 10/2019 in Duisburg
6. meeting: 04/2020 online
7. Meeting: 10/2020 online
8. meeting: 06/2021 online
9. meeting: 10/2022 online
10. meeting: 06/2022 online
11. meeting: 11/2022 online
12. meeting: 09/2023 online
13. meeting: 09/2024 online
The 14th network meeting will take place on 23 May 2025 from 10:30-12:30. Please register at nerea.voeing@upb.de.
Here you will find a repository for topic requests for the internal network exchange.
| Title | Place | Persons | |
| 11.03.21 | SoTL in the dghd. Successful conditions for good SoTL practice at universities | dghd workshop conference, Topic cluster 6 | Maik Arnold, Sabine Reisas & Nerea V?ing |
| 15.06.21 | Key Success Factors and Good Practices for SoTL Projects in Higher Education | EuroSoTL Connect. Panel Discussion | Maik Arnold, Sabine Reisas & Nerea V?ing |
| 23.09.2022 | Virtual workshop "SoTL for the development of learning communities, relationship building between students and teachers and attitude development of teachers" | Online | Maik Arnold |
| 2022 | Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: A research-led foundation and further development of higher education (subject area) didactics (Research and Innovation in Higher Education 16). DUZ Verlag. | Nerea V?ing, Maik Arnold & Sabine Reisas | |
| 2023 | Teaching development through Scholarship of Teaching and Learning - researching, developing and sharing higher education teaching with SoTL | e-teaching.org contribution | Nerea V?ing, Maik Arnold & Sabine Reisas |
| 2023 | "Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) as a motor for inter- and transdisciplinary university didactics." In R. Rhein & J. Wildt (eds.),Hochschuldidaktik als Wissenschaft. Disciplinary, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary perspectives. transcript. | Maik Arnold, Nerea V?ing & Sabine Reisas |
In recent years, universities in German-speaking countries have developed a variety of approaches to the subject-specific further development of their own teaching. The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) concept has great potential for further development and innovation through its research-based approach to teaching. As part of the first SoTL tour in the winter semester 2020/21, various lecturers from German-speaking countries had the opportunity to exchange ideas about SoTL with colleagues from other universities.
Here you can find the destinations and dates of the 1st round trip.
A continuation took place from January 2022 to January 2023.
Here you can find the destinations and dates of the 2nd round trip.
Here you will find a tender text for the round trip.
Kind regards from
Prof Dr Maik Arnold(m.arnold@fh-dresden.eu)
Sabine Reisas(sreisas@uv.uni-kiel.de)
Dr Nerea V?ing(nerea.voeing@uni-paderborn.de)
After the response to the past two SoTL round trips, our journey continues! Many exciting destinations await us and all interested parties are cordially invited.
Here you will find the destinations and dates of the 3rd round trip.
Here you can find the invitation to tender for the round trip.
Kind regards from
Prof. Dr Maik Arnold (m.arnold(at)fh-dresden(dot)eu)
Dr Nerea V?ing (nerea.voeing(at)uni-paderborn(dot)de)
Stefka Weber (s.weber(at)fh-aachen.de)
After the response to the past four SoTL round trips, our journey continues, this time more international than before!
Here you can find the destinations and dates of the 5th round trip.
Here you can find the call in German and English.
Best regards from
Dr Alexa Brase (alexa.kristin.brase(at)uni-hamburg(dot)de)
Prof. Dr Maik Arnold (m.arnold(at)fh-dresden(dot)eu)
Dr Nerea V?ing (nerea.voeing(at)uni-paderborn University(dot)de)
Stefka Weber (s.weber(at)fh-aachen.de)
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After the response to the past four SoTL round trips, our journey continues, this time more international than before!
Here you can find the destinations and dates of the 5th round trip.
Here you can find the call in German and English.
Best regards from
Dr Alexa Brase (alexa.kristin.brase(at)uni-hamburg(dot)de)
Prof. Dr Maik Arnold (m.arnold(at)fh-dresden(dot)eu)
Dr Nerea V?ing (nerea.voeing(at)uni-paderborn University(dot)de)
Stefka Weber (s.weber(at)fh-aachen.de)