Certificate: Digital Teaching Competence
With the Certificate in Digital Teaching Competence, lecturers at the Medical University of Innsbruck expand their didactic skills for contemporary, digital teaching – practical, compact, and application‑oriented.
Blended learning formats and the digital tools used enable flexible participation in the certificate programme and allow participants to experience the methods taught first‑hand from the learner’s perspective.
Key facts
- Start: March 2026
- Language: Currently only available in German
- 100 hours (4 ECTS) over two semesters
- Compulsory modules on digital didactics, AI, tools, and legal aspects
- Elective modules such as in‑depth workshops or lecture and exchange formats
- Practical project developed directly from your own teaching
- Focus on concrete impulses, peer exchange, and the sustainable development of your own teaching practice.
Target group
The certificate is aimed at current and prospective lecturers from all faculties at the Medical University of Innsbruck, especially those who have already completed the basic didactics qualification “Foundations of Teaching in Higher Education” and wish to systematically expand their digital teaching competence.
What’s in it for you?
- Expert and practical knowledge and peer exchange
- Further development and professionalisation of your own teaching
- Official MUI certificate as a visible qualification
- Creditability of certificate courses as elective modules for habilitation
Dates
| Session | Date / time |
|---|---|
| Kick‑off | 09/03/2026: 13:30 – 16:00 |
| Digital didactics | 24/03/2026: 16:00 – 17:00 (introduction) 25/03–19/04/2026: self‑study phase 20/04/2026: 15:00 – 17:00 (closing) |
| AI in teaching | 07/05/2026: full day |
| E‑learning law – Q&A | 21/05/2026: 15:00 – 17:00 |
| Digital tools at MUI | 16/06/2026: full day |
| Kick‑off practical project | tbd: 2 h |
| Planned completion | 02/2027: half‑day |
Conditions of participation
- Participation is to be agreed directly with the head of the organisational unit (OEL)
- Participation takes place during working hours; there is no entitlement to additional work or overtime compensation
- The Digital Teaching and Learning team covers the costs for the teaching staff
Registration
The first 2026 cohort is unfortunately already fully booked. However, you are very welcome to be added to the mailing list for the following year to receive a reminder about the new application phase: digitales.lehren@i-med.ac.at