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Vom Wiegen wird die Sau nicht fett... Wozu evaluieren wir eigentlich? (QM-Symposium, Münster)
(2024)
Teaching and learning in international and thus intercultural contexts places special demands on the conception of trainings. The same holds true for online or distance learning. Taken together, both factors – training in an intercultural and online context – pose specific didactic and technical challenges. Against the background of the COVID-19 pandemic all international training programmes under the umbrella of the Higher Education Management Programme at FH Münster –University of Applied Sciences had to be held online. In the article on hand we share our experiences with online training for actors in the higher education area from developing and emerging countries and discuss its specific demands along the lines of common criteria for effective learning.
The CORE Concept: Four Steps to a Quality Management System for Higher Education Institutions
(2019)
The CORE concept facilitates the implementation of a quality management system in higher education institutions. It defines four essential steps: to clarify goals, optimize processes, reflect outcomes, and encourage improvement, which must be applied to different objects. The article explains how the model can be used for an initial organizational analysis and the conception of your own QM system. The concept was developed at FH Münster, a large German university of applied sciences. In the last years, it has successfully been used in consulting projects with universities in Latin America and Africa.
Als erste deutsche Hochschule wurde die FH Münster im Sommer 2017 systemreakkreditiert.
Grundlage der Akkreditierungsentscheidung war ein Konzept,
das die Hochschule im Herbst 2014 im Kontext der Experimentierklausel“
des Akkreditierungsrats entwickelt hatte. Mittlerweile stößt dieses Konzept auf reges Interesse bei anderen systemakkreditierten Hochschulen, bietet doch das geänderte Akkreditierungsrecht seit Januar 2018 explizit die Möglichkeit, in Abstimmung mit dem Akkreditierungsrat und der jeweils zuständigen Wissenschaftsbehörde „alternative Akkreditierungsverfahren“ zu gestalten Vor diesem Hintergrund erläutert der Aufsatz den Kontext der Experimentierklausel, das Reakkreditierungsverfahren der FH Münster und die Neugestaltung des Akkreditierungsrechts.
Vor allem aber werden die Gründe, die zur Entwicklung des neuen Ansatzes führten, dargestellt, bevor dann das kumulative Akkreditierungskonzept der FH Münster skizziert wird. Die Ausarbeitung schließt mit ersten Hinweisen darauf, welche Argumente bei der Entscheidung zwischen einem alternativen – hier: kumulativen – und einem konventionellen Reakkreditierungsverfahren abzuwägen sind.
The quality management system of FH Münster, a German university of applied sciences with 15.000 students, was established ten years ago. The main goal was to systematically foster reflection on quality issues in all faculties. In 2016, the concept was transferred to the level of institutional reaccreditation: A procedure called „cumulative accreditation“ was implemented, including e.g. a public symposium.
On both levels, the author experienced that joint reflection on quality issues may encourage academics to change habits and improve study programmes. However, sometimes desirable changes will not happen. Instead of asking for sanctions and incentives, the article suggests another approach: the creation of learning opportunities for university members.