Welcome to the Centre for University Didactics at Kempten UAS (ZHK)
The Centre for University Didactics at Kempten UAS (ZHK) supports teachers at Kempten University of Applied Sciences in continually developing and refining their teaching in many ways. This includes designing and coordinating events and networking opportunities, providing information and materials, offering various forms of individual support, and coordinating projects and activities addressing teaching and learning in higher education. The ZKH provides a platform for innovation, discussion and continuous development in higher education, which is open to everyone involved in teaching – whether professors, sessional lecturers or scientific staff.
Get in touch
Centre for University Didactics at Kempten (ZHK)
Director:
Dr. Paula Bartel
Address:
Kempten University of Applied Sciences | Bahnhofstr. 61 |
87435 Kempten | Germany
Room N203
Email:
zhk(at)hs-kempten.de
Opening hours:
By appointment
Our services
Events & networking
Events & networking
We pool the best professional development opportunities run by our collaborative partners and combine them with our own events, such as networking, workshops and webinars. We also organise major events, such as the forthcoming inaugural Day of Teaching on 1 July 2025. For further details about the event, please click below:Day of Teaching 2025
Info and materials
Info and materials
We provide lots of information and materials for teachers to use – not only digital materials and resources, but also an extensive didactics library with plenty of inspiration on different topics in higher education. The library is located in our “LehrLernLab” laboratory for teaching and learning, which is accessible to teachers throughout the day. Please get in touch!
Individual support
Individual support
Would you like to work on refining a course that you are teaching? Are you interested in trying out new methods? Or perhaps you need to tackle some didactical challenges? We can assist in many ways – from one-to-one advice or discussions with colleagues through to practical support in implementing new teaching concepts. Feel free to get in touch – we look forward to talking to you!
Activities and projects
Activities and projects
We initiate and support innovative projects that drive forward the continuous development of higher education, and we organise efforts to flag up good teaching approaches and to encourage discussion and collaboration in this field throughout our university of applied sciences. Do you have any ideas or topics that you would like to put forward? Please get in touch!Collaborations and cooperation
We work with various entities both within and outside the university to continuously improve and refine teaching – generating joint offers, innovative projects and a valuable exchange of knowledge and experience. Our aim is to harness synergies and optimise support for teachers – in the forms of technical expertise, didactical inspiration and practically relevant programmes.
Institute for Digital Transformation in Work, Education and Society (IDT)
The Institute for Digital Transformation in Work, Education and Society (IDT) and the ZHK work closely together. Their common aim is to enable teachers to stay adept with teaching formats, which includes taking the increasingly digital world in their stride. One of the IDT’s lines of research investigates digital education, sharing its findings with the ZHK. In addition, the IDT offers individual support to teachers wishing to use digital tools. The IDT and the ZHK also work together on digital formats for university teaching. This close collaboration creates practically relevant solutions for future-focused teaching.
Bavarian Centre for Innovative Teaching (BayZiel)
The Bavarian Centre for Innovative Teaching (BayZiel) offers an extensive programme to support higher education, which we actively incorporate into our package. In particular, the Didactics Centre at BayZiel runs various seminars for teachers, which our own staff are eligible to attend. Our didactics mentors form a tight interface with BayZiel, which nurtures exchange with other specialists on innovative teaching approaches and examples of best practice.
Virtual University of Bavaria (vhb)
The Virtuelle Hochschule Bayern (vhb) runs a platform for digital teaching, promotes innovative e-learning concepts and enables teachers to integrate existing online classes into their courses. Not only do we use the interesting classes on offer for our teaching staff, but the vhb’s "Instructional Designer” project also supports us with advice on questions relating to digital teaching.
In-house professional development at Kempten UAS
The ZHK collaborates closely with our in-house professional development team to design a harmonised, extensive choice of courses for teaching staff. We coordinate topics of interest, harness synergies and develop joint offers encompassing didactical and specialist professional development. The aim is to provide tailor-made support that meets teachers’ needs, addressing didactical methods and university-wide topics.
Our team combines expertise in higher education didactics, consultancy and innovative teaching methods. Experienced university practitioners and consultants are on hand to assist teachers with continually refining their methods. Didactics mentors – themselves experienced professors – inject knowledge of teaching practice, encourage exchange between tried-and-tested teaching strategies, and network with other universities of applied sciences. Students and scientific assistants enrich the team with fresh perspectives. An instructional designer@vhb provides advice on digital teaching and technology-assisted learning concepts.