QUALITY MANAGEMENT

AND DEVELOPMENT

What does 'quality of teaching and learning' actually mean?

For us, quality means the successful combination of interrelated factors that contribute to achieving the goals of studying and teaching at OVGU.

In the field of teaching and learning, quality is therefore a multidimensional concept that can only be developed “with reference to all groups of actors involved in teaching, to institutional framework conditions and to state funding and control strategies”.

Ok, sure! But what then is quality assurance and quality development at OVGU?

Quality is context-dependent. And contexts can change! Whether it's study reform or paradigm shifts in university management, whether it's the postulate for more educational equity or greater social commitment: in their contexts of action, members of the university are less in routine situations than in situations of change, uncertainty and time pressure, characterized by conflicts of norms and constraints on action.

In order to consistently maintain and further develop quality in these contexts, we must constantly review the status quo!

We see it as our duty to provide the various stakeholder groups - faculty management, teaching staff, students and employees - with the best possible support in their tasks and to contribute to effective and efficient processes.

Our activities are also aimed at maintaining the freedom of action and autonomy of the university as a whole.

And what exactly does that mean? How do we want to do that?

Our model controls all quality-relevant processes in studies and teaching. Using a dialogue-oriented approach, we seek to support and improve the development of study programmes and course organization in a target group-oriented and event-driven manner.

Together with you, we examine the factors and processes that affect the achievement of objectives in studies and teaching, clarify standards for these, define tasks and projects, accompany their implementation and ensure compliance with legal and educational policy requirements.

OVGU already has various measures in place to ensure and improve the quality of studies and teaching. These components of quality assurance have become established in recent years and have been transferred into a process- and dialog-oriented quality development model. This has laid the foundation for a quality culture at OVGU.

Further information on the concept of quality development at OVGU can be found here!