Workshop: Make it Stick. How to Activate Students  (Online)

Engaged students are learning students. Discover and try out the most effective principles for student activation.  

Ziele

Participants can  

  • discuss the applicability of the principles of student engagement to archetypical educational situations   

  • recognize different feedback orientations of students and reflect on how this affects the desired outcome of peer feedback     

  • transfer the principles of student engagement to their own courses   

  • reflect on the effects of the principles of student engagement on their own learning   

Inhalte

  • Design principles for student activation online and onsite   

  • Design principles for effective group activities   

  • Feedback orientation of students  

  • Reflection on and transfer of the principles into one’s own courses  

Arbeitsweise / Programm

During the self-paced asynchronous phase, participants will watch videos, answer MC/SC-questions and reflect on their current teaching practices. The synchronous online session begins with an ice-breaker activity, followed by a readiness assurance process that guarantees every participant is well-acquainted with the main principles. Following the warming up, participants will work in three consecutive sessions on their own projects on student engagement and give as well as receive feedback from other participants based on a peer feedback rubric. The workshop ends with a peer and group discussion on the effectiveness of the principles of student engagement.   

Zielpublikum

All university teachers are welcome. 

Beschreibung

In this interactive blended learning workshop, you will be introduced to the main principles of student engagement, experience their effectiveness firsthand and will eventually transfer them to your own courses.  

The foregoing self-study phase is essentially built on the stand-alone eLearning course “Make it Stick - How to Activate Students”, which you can complete at any time. Otherwise, you will be automatically registered and notified two weeks before the synchronous online phase, so that you have ample time to acquaint yourself with the most important design principles for student activation and already take the first steps of transferring them to your own teaching. In the synchronous online phase, you will experience the effectiveness of these principles firsthand and work on your own projects and receive iterative feedback from other participants to further optimize your own concept for student engagement.   

Besonderes

In this collaborative workshop of the Università della Svizzera iItaliana and the University of Bern, teachers from both universities will participate. The course language is English and will be held in English online (Zoom). Participation, therefore, requires a microphone and webcam.   

Anmelde- und Aufnahmeverfahren

Die Anmeldung erfolgt elektronisch mittels Online-Anmeldeformular (siehe unten). Die Anmeldungen werden in der Reihenfolge des Eingangs berücksichtigt. Spätestens kurz nach Anmeldeschluss (3 Wochen vor Beginn der Selbststudiumsphase) entscheiden die Veranstalter über die definitive Durchführung.
Die Anmeldungen zu den einzelnen Veranstaltungen erfolgen unabhängig von der Anmeldung zum gesamten CAS-Studiengang.

Abmeldungen

Abmeldungen erfolgen zwingend per E-Mail an info.lead@unibe.ch

Kosten

Teilnahme kostenlos

Annullierungsbestimmungen

Bei Anmeldeschluss entscheiden die Veranstalter, ob der Kurs durchgefuehrt werden kann. Der Entscheid gruendet auf der Anzahl der Anmeldungen.

Kontakt

Universität Bern
Vizerektorat Lehre
Learning and Development | LEAD
Schanzeneckstrasse 1
Postfach
3001 Bern

Telefon 031 684 55 32
E-Mail info.lead@unibe.ch

Nummer
H.26.64
Termine
26.02.2026
Zeiten
Until 25.02.2026: self-study phase;

26.02.2026: synchronous online session (9:00 - 15:30)

Kursort
Leitung

Anđa Andrijanic, M. Sc.  
Dr. Thomas Schröter 

Plätze max.
20 Personen
Kurssprache
Englisch
Anmeldefrist
23.02.2026
Format
Einzelveranstaltung von CAS Hochschullehre
Sie erhalten eine Teilnahmebescheinigung.
Trägerschaft

Universität Bern
Learning and Development | LEAD

ECTS-Info

As part of the CAS University Teaching, participants will receive 0.5 ECTS towards Module 2 for the fully attended course.