Dr. Klara Groß-Elixmann, Autor bei Lehrpfade

Screenshot from Beyond the Chalkboard: The game’s characters stand beside the podium in a seminar room. From left to right: Elli, wears a cap, has long black hair, wears long pants and a t-shirt. Next to her is a lecturer holding a clipboard. At their feet lies Sam’s cat. Then Sam, wearing beige pants, a gray sweater, a black backpack, has brown hair and holds a book. Then fellow student Alex and Professor Hempel with glasses, bow tie, and mustache. On the far right sits a small dog.

Inclusive Education Through Gaming: Beyond the Chalkboard in Practice

Learn about the needs of students with mental illnesses and raise awareness among educators at your university! The serious game Beyond the Chalkboard (BtC) can be integrated into workshops for higher education didactics to draw attention to accessibility issues at universities. Interested in working with BtC? Play the game yourself first. Afterwards, this article serves…

8. September 20250Comments

Featured image: A person is sitting at a laptop; only their hands typing are visible. Accessibility icons are emerging from the laptop.

Accessibility Diversity

Accessible teaching

Accessibility improves your teaching! This fact is often forgotten because the focus is on the presumed additional expense. Besides, there do not seem to be any students affected in your course anyway – so the topic cannot be that important. In fact, you can create accessible conditions more easily than you might think. This will…

9. January 20230Comments

Decorative picture: a wooden tower made of blocks, each with a smiling, neutral and sad face.

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Why evaluate teaching – and how does that work with TAP?

For students to learn successfully, teaching must be appropriately designed. Likewise, students should take responsibility for their own learning process. This means that students themselves are very good at judging how teaching should be designed for them. For this reason, there are regular evaluations at the TH Cologne that make the quality of teaching visible…

20. October 20220Comments