Bachelor 2.0 at UAS Technikum Wien

Starting next autumn, students at the UAS Technikum Wien can look forward to an even more flexible Bachelor’s degree program which is independent of time and place. This will be made possible by even more and improved online learning offers on the learning platform Moodle. This will ensure that studies can continue without delay even in the current corona crisis – the high quality and practical orientation of the UAS Technikum Wien will remain guaranteed at the same time.

In an intensive one-year process, UAS Technikum Wien has evaluated and revised all its Bachelor curricula. The basis for this was the latest findings on the learning behavior and living habits of students, analyses of curricula in an international environment and the requirements of the labor-market. The result is a new bachelor curriculum which, in addition to classroom teaching and practice, increasingly provides for online-supported self-study. The bachelor’s courses 2.0 will start next autumn and the admission procedures are in the home stretch.

Learning path leads through the course

The aim was to bundle related subjects in the individual curriculum modules in order to facilitate learning. At the same time, resources can be bundled in this way, which will further enhance the quality of education at the UAS Technikum Wien in the future.

“In concrete terms, students benefit from teaching that is more independent of time and place, which is an improvement especially for our many working students. This consists of classroom teaching, online-supported self-study to prepare and deepen the teaching content, as well as highly practice-oriented courses such as laboratory exercises. In this way, students are guided step by step through their studies and are introduced to the exams”, explains Gabriele Költringer, Managing Director of the UAS Technikum Wien, the concept: “We work with learning paths in which solution and application-oriented learning and thinking are in the foreground – in other words, exactly what is required in the job. Stubborn memorization of exam material is not conducive to achieving the desired results, because in technology in particular, specialist knowledge is constantly becoming outdated,” adds Költringer.

Individual support for successful studies

If required, these learning paths are supplemented by individual support services provided by the “Teaching & Learning Center” of the UAS Technikum Wien. For example, free “warm-up courses” are offered to first-year students in the summer, i.e. before the start of their studies. In so-called “short-track courses” higher semesters repeat the learning material for those who have problems with it.

“This keeps the drop-out rate as low as possible. Those who make it to our university should also make it through their studies in the best possible way. We support our students in this process”, explains Gabriela Brezowar, Head of the Teaching & Learning Center.

Freedom for teachers through standardization

However, the revised Bachelor curricula also give teachers more freedom, because synergies are used.

“Up to now, almost all of our Bachelor’s programs have included an “Introduction to Computer Science”, but this was taught by different teachers, each with different concepts and materials. This has now been unified. With the free resources thus gained, the lecturers can exploit other potentials, e.g. in research,” explains Gabriela Brezowar.

Quality in teaching

With the new concept for the bachelor curricula, the UAS Technikum Wien is meeting its high standards of teaching quality, which students, teachers, but also industry, which is desperately looking for well-trained specialists, appreciate. The UAS Technikum Wien thus sets itself a quality level in the university sector that sets national and international standards.