Mathias Müller, Institute of Computational Linguistics

Research on learning in higher education has revealed certain key aspects of teaching and learning that are most strongly associated with successful learning. One of those key characteristics is having explicit learning goals and communicating them to students. A small-scale survey of all courses offered at my department suggests that there is a mismatch between learning goals as intended by lecturers, and as perceived by students. Potential causes are that lecturers are ineffective at 1) designing or 2) communicating learning goals.

To address those problems, I have developed and published a series of short training videos for lecturers: https://www.cl.uzh.ch/de/people/team/compling/mmueller/LearningGoals.html