🎓 Course Type: ALPS – Active Learning Pedagogy Schools
📅 Online kick-off: 4 March 2027 · On-site: 8–11 March 2027 · Online follow-up: 25 March 2027
📍 Carinthia University, Campus Villach (Austria)
📝 2 ECTS credits and a certificate of attendance
⏰ Application deadline: 1 December 2026
ALPS will offer academic staff the opportunity to participate in an intensive four-day training programme in Active Learning Pedagogy. Active Learning Pedagogy is an educational approach that emphasises student-centred learning, involving their active engagement and participation in the learning process. It involves the use of hands-on methods in which students participate, collaborate and solve problems, thereby developing critical thinking and creativity.
Application deadline
Upon successful completion of the course, participants will receive 2 ECTS credits and a certificate of attendance.
Lead and Host Institution
Carinthia University (CU)
Organisation: Gerlinde Koppitsch, Carmen Oman, Elisabeth Vergeiner
This immersive, four-day programme equips educators and trainers with practical strategies to design and facilitate student-centred learning. Using active learning throughout, you will immerse yourself in challenge-based learning, learning in the field, onboarding, student engagement, student participation in research, and team-building in a very practical way. We will encourage you to then translate your learning into your own context.
Online kick-off (4 March 2027, 4:00–6:00 pm UTC+1, online via MS Teams):
During the joint online kick-off, the focus is on getting to know each other, opening the space for active learning pedagogy, and preparing participants for the following on-site component. Participants will also have the opportunity in this session to ask questions prior to their arrival.
On-site part (8–11 March 2027, CU Campus Villach):
During the training, you will have the opportunity to familiarise yourself with different aspects of active learning pedagogy, experiencing it hands-on and subsequently planning how to apply it in your own teaching. Through inputs, experiential phases, practical sessions, and reflection across a range of teaching and learning settings, you will be gradually introduced to topics related to active learning. Peer exchange in various settings, collaborative learning within the group and opportunities for individual reflection are central to the programme.
Online follow-up (25 March 2027, 4:00–6:00 pm UTC+1, online via MS Teams):
In the final online reflection meeting, participants are invited to reflect on and share their experiences and learning during the event. A follow-up activity will bring the shared learning journey to a close.
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