The Economy Studies project emerged from the worldwide movement to modernise economics education, spurred on by the global financial crisis of 2008, the climate crisis, and the COVID-19 pandemic. It envisions a wide variety of economics graduates and specialists, equipped with a broad toolkit,...

The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed training processes. The transition from face-to-face to virtuality has affected the entire educational process favoring one of the open innovation key features in the higher education institutions: the ability to manage knowledge flow. Open innovation in...

The Economy Studies project emerged from the worldwide movement to modernise economics education, spurred on by the global financial crisis of 2008, the climate crisis, and the COVID-19 pandemic. It envisions a wide variety of economics graduates and specialists, equipped with a broad toolkit,...

Student Evaluations of Teaching (SETs) have been suggested as one possible cause for low representation of women among academic economists. While econometric analyses using control variables certainly report that SETs can be influenced by the gender of both teacher and student, such studies may...

Die Auswirkungen der Corona-Pandemie bzw. der mit ihr verbundenen Maßnahmen auf die Lehre, Forschung, Selbstverwaltung und Work-Life-Balance eines Hochschullehrers werden dargestellt und mit weiterführenden Überlegungen verbunden.

Die vorliegende Studie betrachtet deutsche Lernfabriken aus verschiedenen Perspektiven und untersucht Lernfabriken an deutschen Hochschulen im Spannungsfeld hochschuldidaktischer, bildungspolitischer sowie regionalwirtschaftlicher Fragestellungen. Zunächst wird mittels einer quantitativen...

Die Ursprünge des Forschenden Lernens liegen bereits Jahrhunderte zurück. Jedoch wurde das Konzept, Studierende in die Forschung an Universitäten einzubinden und sie "selber denken zu lassen" lange Zeit nicht als zielführend angesehen. Massenuniversitäten zielten auf frontale,...

Recent decades have seen a dramatic rise in student evaluation of teaching (SET). However, they have overwhelmingly focused on quantitative ratings, neglecting students’ written feedback. This study addresses the lack of qualitative research on SET by applying a semantic theory and...

"If you are looking for the intersection of past practices, current thinking, and future insights into the ever-expanding world of entrepreneurship education, then you will want to read and explore the fifth edition of the Annals of Entrepreneurship Education and Pedagogy. Prepared under the...

Der digitale Wandel transformiert die Lehre -- Bedeutung der Digitalisierung -- Anwendung der Methodik auf die Problemstellung am Beispiel ausgewählter Module -- Bewertungsergebnisse -- Zusammenfassung und Ausblick.

This work contributes to the literature raising concerns with the use of SET (student teaching evaluation) scores to evaluate teaching effectiveness and to motivate or demotivate faculty tenure and promotion decisions. It shows that the non-deterministic and qualitative nature of the SETs...

Student Evaluations of Teaching (SET) are subjective measures of student satisfaction that are often used to assess teaching quality. In this paper, we show that heterogeneity in students' reporting styles challenges SET validity. Using administrative data that allow us to track all evaluations...

This work contributes to the literature raising concerns with the use of SET (student teaching evaluation) scores to evaluate teaching effectiveness and to motivate or demotivate faculty tenure and promotion decisions. It shows that the non-deterministic and qualitative nature of the SETs...

Student Evaluations of Teaching (SET) are subjective measures of student satisfaction that are often used to assess teaching quality. In this paper, we show that heterogeneity in students' reporting styles challenges SET validity. Using administrative data that allow us to track all evaluations...

This paper documents differences across higher-education courses in the coverage of frontier knowledge. Comparing the text of 1.7M syllabi and 20M academic articles, we construct the "education-innovation gap," a syllabus's relative proximity to old and new knowledge. We show that courses differ...