Fostering Cooperation Between Lecturers and TLC Staff to Improve Digital Teaching. Experiences with a Pool of Discipline-specific Experts

Abstract

[EN] The necessity of discipline-specific teaching method skills of lecturers is exacerbated by a partly insufficient cooperation between lecturers and media-didactic staff in Teaching and Learning Centers (TLC). This paper aims to illustrate how this lack of cooperation between lecturers and media-didactic experts can be solved by a team of discipline-specific experts skilled in media-didactic methods. Due to their knowledge of the discipline-specific communication cultures these discipline-specific experts build a “bridge” in cooperation between lecturers and media-didactic experts as well as technical staff. Experiences gathered with the TLC of the University of Applied Sciences Fulda show that the discipline-specific experts support lecturers by fostering particularly informal cooperation between them and media-didactic experts or technical staff. Therefore, the pool of discipline-specific experts is a new and innovative way to support lecturers in acquiring discipline-specific digital teaching skills, fostering discourse on teaching practices and further developing digital teaching.