Why integrate tutorials into your teaching?
- Flexibility and adaptation: The tutorials are freely usable and adaptable under the CC-BY licence, allowing you to integrate them seamlessly into your teaching. You only need to give credit to the authors.
- Practical instructions: The tutorials provide quality-assured and easy-to-understand instructions for carrying out laboratory work and experiments. They contain descriptions of laboratory equipment and procedures, based on the expertise of the University of Stuttgart's teaching staff.
- Easy availability: In contrast to a lot of scattered content on the internet, these specially customised tutorials are easily accessible.
- Support for students: The tutorials provide a valuable resource to help students transition into their studies, especially in preparation for hands-on lab experiments.
Possible application scenarios
- Provision as preparatory material before laboratory practicals.
- Carrying out remote experiments.
How you can use the tutorials
Start now: Make the tutorials available to your students to enable them to independently grasp and gain a deeper understanding of laboratory practicals. Benefit from the availability of quality-assured content directly from the University of Stuttgart and supplement your teaching methods.
FAQs for lecturers on lab tutorials
The tutorials are specially tailored to the didactics of laboratory practicals and experimental content taught at the University of Stuttgart. The content is closely linked to the real laboratory experiences developed by the institutes for teaching purposes.
Yes, the tutorials are openly accessible. They can be used freely, adapted to your needs and distributed under the CC-BY licence.
The use is versatile: Integrate entire tutorials or parts of them into your lectures and assign them as preparation or follow-up work.
The tutorials are on average around 20 minutes long. You can also flexibly show only certain segments in order to adapt them to the context of your teaching.
The currently available tutorials can be found in the media centre.
Especially for students in the first semesters of STEM subjects, the tutorials are a valuable resource for preparing for laboratory work. They are also useful later in the degree programme to refresh important concepts.
The project "digit@L - Digital Teaching and Learning at the University of Stuttgart: Boost. Skills. Support." is funded by the Stiftung Innovation in der Hochschullehre.
The drawings are by Jai Wanigesinghe.
Contact
Julian Fischer
Doctoral Researcher
Harald Kübler
Head of Physics Laboratory I / Group Leader
Michael Jetter
Dr.Gruppenleiter