June 18, 2025 – June 20, 2025

Training Activity: Innovative teaching approaches

The training activity aims to improve the knowledge of Professors/Teaching staff on innovative pedagogical models and approaches. Organized within the frame of the activities promoted by the UNIgreen Alliance with the collaboration and expertise of the Teaching and Learning Center of Unimore, the course promotes the discussion on the pedagogical practices that traditional universities can adopt to build new approaches characterized by quality criteria as well as by the flexibility requirements expected in new national and international contexts.

A special focus will be also devoted to diversity and inclusiveness approaches.   

This Staff Training Programme is only for UNIgreen institution and  will be funded through the Erasmus+ KA1 initiative – Staff training  mobility (STT) – of your institution.

Location: University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy)

Registration deadline: 23 May 2025

Programme

Day 1

09.00 – 09.30

Welcome to participants

09.30 – 10.00

How to plan and organize University educational courses (competences, objectives, evaluation, technologies)

10.00 – 10.45

How to transform a traditional teaching approach to a project-based pedagogy 

Break

11.30 – 12.00

The Competency-based learning and teaching 

12.00 – 12.45

Online teaching(modularity and flexibility, synchronous vs asynchronous, on-site vs online evaluation criteria and approaches)

Lunch

14.30- 15.30

Online teaching(Didactic teaching, Interactive teaching, e-tivity)

15.30 – 16.30

ECOBI Model (Educational cluster, Open badge, Blended Intensive Courses)

16.30 – 17.00

Microcredentials and digital certificates

17.00 – 18.00

Visit to the Duomo

Day 2

09.30 – 10.30

The role of “Tutors”(administration, technology and with special focus on methodology, disciplinary)

10.30 – 11.00

Coaching and Mentoring

Break

11.30 – 12.30

The role of the “instructional designer

Lunch

14.30- 15.30

Multimedia content(quality criteria and guidelines and the issue of copyright)

16.00 – 18.00

Visit to the Geophysical Observatory

Day 3

09.00 – 10.00

Introduction to Disability: best practices in Universities

10.00 – 11.00

The “Unimore” experience and specific support for students (lessons, exams, laboratories, teaching mastrerial, sign language)

Break

11.30 – 13.00

Understanding disabilities: a comprehensive overview. Hearing disability, visual disability, learning disability, motor disability, autism spectrum disorders and ADHD

Lunch

14.30 – 15.30

Adapting Assessments for Students with Specific Learning Disorders: Inclusive Strategies for Success

15.30 – 17.00

Logic mappinghow to create a logic map – practical activity

17.00

Closing remarks