About us

The Hamburg Center for University Teaching and Learning (HUL) is a central institution for teaching and learning at the University. It combines research, a Master's degree program, teaching evaluation services and the Writing Center under one roof and is responsible for the didactic qualification of all teaching staff at the University of Hamburg. This integration is unique in university didactics and enables the HUL to dovetail theory, practice and transfer to university teaching and learning. The center has three professorships, academic staff and employees for services and administration.

Qualification

All teaching staff at UHH (including student tutors) can attend various qualification programs free of charge that meet different needs: from low-threshold web sessions, exchange forums and workshops to certificates and conferences or teaching campaigns.

independent learning materials

Text, image and video material is available to all interested persons for information and further development of their own teaching, which is suitable for support in teaching and for independent qualification. The independent learning materials are organized along a didactic teaching path.

Evaluation

The Evaluation Team advises and supports teaching staff, departments,
faculties and central institutions of the UHH with their
evaluation projects in studies and teaching. This includes surveys on
quality of teaching, surveys along the student life cycle as well as external
and cross-university surveys.

Writing didactics

Writing Center for students and lecturers

The Writing Center offers students and lecturers didactic writing courses in the form of workshops, advice, teaching cooperations and events. All services are aimed at teaching academic writing as a fundamental skill of academic work and promoting a culture of writing at the university.

Research

Higher education and teaching research

With the three professorships including academic staff, research on university teaching and learning is integrated into the HUL. Various research approaches to higher education are practiced. Higher education research is supplemented by research collaborations on the didactics of science in the subjects.

Master

The consecutive Master's degree course in Higher Education is a part-time online course. It provides an introduction to didactics, teaching-learning research, media education research, higher education research and science research and integrates the implementation of your own design-based research project.