1. iQu – Integrated Quality Initiative at
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Presentation at LINQ-Conference, 17 May 2013

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Agenda
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1 General Information about the HHU Düsseldorf
2 The iQu-Project
3 Focused Action Fields
4 eLearning
5 Closing Remarks

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General Information about the
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
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Location
Source: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Düsseldorf

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General Information about the
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
 Foundation in 1965 (renamed in 1988)
 Around:
 20.000 Students
 1.700 Academic Staff
 900 Non-academic Staff
 Faculties:
 Medicine
 Mathematics and Natural Sciences
 Arts and Humanities
 Business and Economics
 Law
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http://www.uni-duesseldorf.de/home/en/about-hhu/further-
links/facts-and-figures.html

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The iQu-Project
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 German acronym for
„Integrated Quality Initiative in Teaching and Studies“
 Funded by the „Quality Pact for Teaching“ by the German
Government
 One of the Main Goals:
Improvement of Teaching Quality
by interlinking a large Number of
relevant Players throughout the
University

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Focused Action Fields
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 Quality Improvement through Activities in different Action
Fields, for example:
 Academic Feasibility
 Higher Educational Development
 eLearning
 Installation of Experts throughout all Action Fields AND all
Faculties/Central Departments
 Cooperative Projects surpassing topic-related and
organizational boarders

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eLearning
 Fostering the Use of (webbased)
Technologies / Lerningplatforms / Digital Media
in Teaching and Learning Processes
 More Possibilities for Private Study
(online, e.g. Blended Learning or Recapitulation)
 Enrichment of Classroom Sessions
(e.g. Electronic Voting Systems, interactive Whiteboards)
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eLearning
Activities
 Networking and communicational efforts
 Incentives
 Academic Staff Development
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Closing Remarks
 Quote:
„Getting linked without getting chained!“
 Preliminary Outcomes
 Connections to the Topics of LINQ 2013
meinhard@hhu.de
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