Theodor Leiber

University of Augsburg | UNA · Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences

The University as Key Enabler of Enlightenment and Humanism. Required strategies and actionable competencies

Digital transformation in higher education, digital competencies of teachers and students and future (digital) skills

Lessons learnt from the LTSHE project including higher education case studies

Explorative qualitative Perspektive(n) auf Akteure und Bereiche vonMacht in hochschulischen Evaluationen mit qualitativem Vergleicheiniger europäischer Länder (D, DK, FI, N, S)

Digital Transformation in Higher Education Learning and Teaching: The Quality Digital Literacy We Need

The paper characterises the learning and teaching process with a focus on higher education and describes the basics of contemporary theories of learning and teaching. Against this conceptual background, the interweaving of performance indicators and theories and practice of learning and teaching is analysed. For a small, selected number of exemplar...

A comparative SWOT analysis of policies and practice of the design and implementation of learning and teaching (L&T) spaces in the higher educaton (HE) system and higher education institutions in Germany and Portugal. Recommendations and principles for the design and implementation of L&T spaces in HE

Principles of design and implementation of Learning and Teaching spaces in higher education institutions

Suggesting a networked concept of quality literacy in higher education learning and teaching which reflects on and includes relevant quality dimensions, stakeholder goals, areas of competencies and related performance indicators

Digital Transformation in higher education learning and tTeaching and its required quality competencies in strategy, QM, quality practice and quality culture of various stakeholders

This presentation is about innovative governance in higher education institutions.

It's about basic elements of performance assessment in higher education including a working definition of performance indicators, a networked conceot of Quality Literacy and related indicator models.

The presentation is about the basic elements of the University.

The presentation proposes a comprehensive set of performance indicators for HE learning and teaching in sustainable development.

The article investigates in performance data governance and management (PDGM) of learning and teaching in higher education institutions. The analysis is based on an Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership spreading out over nine European countries. An intensive case study is carried out including generic results about basic elements and desiderata of PDGM....

See also https://www.evalag.de/sqelt/ and https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/projects/eplus-project-de-tails/#project/b8a93e06-2000-4a82-9fac-90b3bcacadec

Which challenges do Student Experience and Engagement Surveys (SEESs), and surveys in general, encounter? Which recommendations for SEES governance and management can be made? Which are the main advantages and disadvantages of SEESs? Are centralised, nationwide SEESs an advantage as compared to individualised, institution-based SEESs? To address...

New publication on Student Experience and Engagement Surveys: Leiber, Theodor: Student experience and engagement surveys in context. Chal-lenges, recommendations and success factors in international perspective. In: P. Pohlenz, L. Mitterauer, S. Harris-Huemmert(eds.) (2020) Qualitätssicherung imStu-dent LifeCycle.Münster: Waxmann, S. 185-200.

From the blurb: "This volume works towards overcoming the lack of systematic impact evaluation in higher education, particularly analyses which are not restricted to ex-post gathered data and expert assessments. The introductory chapter elucidates the motivation and objective of impact analyses of QM in HEIs and provides an overview of the volume’s...

In contemporary knowledge societies, performance indicators are an indispensable element of sustainable quality management and enhancement through monitoring and evaluating quality performance of higher education institutions. It is argued that learning and teaching quality in higher education should be approached in a holistic way, namely across t...

Issues of theory and practice of systemic quality management (QM) and organizational change and development (OCD) in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) are analyzed. It is argued that system-wide OCD in HEIs is typically driven by implementing QM systems. The basic characteristics of systemic QM and OCD and their interdependence are explicated. P...

The last two decades have witnessed an increasing intensity of quality management in higher education institutions and quality discourses which were followed by debates about and attempts of evaluating the efficacy of quality management in the sector. Accordingly, the article presents a SWOT analysis of impact evaluation of quality management in hi...

Since (higher) education is more important than ever in knowledge societies, high priority should be ascribed to quality management in higher education institutions and its effectiveness. However, there is still a lack of systematic evaluation of the latter, particularly analyses which are not restricted to ex-post gathered data and expert assessme...

The article reports on a case study of impact evaluation of internal quality assurance, i.e. Programme eviews, which was carried out by the Evaluation Agency Baden-Wuerttemberg and the Staff Unit of Quality Development at University of Stuttgart (Germany) in the form of a methodological before-after comparison. The impact evaluation exhibits that t...

The article reports on a case study of impact evaluation of external quality assurance, i.e. programme accreditation, which was carried out by the Catalan University Quality Assurance Agency at Autonomous University of Barcelona in the form of a methodological before-after comparison. The impact evaluation exhibits a marked stability of the attitud...

The article reports on a case study of impact evaluation of external quality assurance, i.e. institutional evaluation including programme accreditation, which was carried out by the Romanian Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education at Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest in the form of a methodological before-after comparison...

Concept of the contemporary university

Although university rankings are controversial, they are still widely used to an increasing ex-tent. It is even claimed that they are involved in strategy processes of universities. This paper analyses this far-reaching hypothesis by exploring the role of rankings for institutional auton-omy, accountability and competition in a selected sample of s...

Do computational social science and Big Data constitute a methodological revolution of the complex, data-intensive sciences? This question is approached by means of a quick analysis of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT analysis) of the two approaches. It is concluded that computational social science and Big Data do mark an imp...

DPDM: Smart(er) University DPDM: Methodology and Research Questions DPDM: Empirical Exploration of Real Universities Conclusions and Outlook

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Leiber, T., Jakubowicz, S., Linder, L.-M., Suwalski, P.: Effects of Quality Management in Higher Education Institutions. A SW(OT) Analysis of Selected Study Cases. Presentation, 19th Annual Meeting of the DeGEval – Society for Evaluation e.V., „Zwischen Nutzung, Einfluss und Nachhaltigkeit – Wie wirken Evaluationen in unterschiedlichen Systemen?”,...

The conference aimed at presenting and disseminating further results of the IMPALA project (i.e., methodology and application of impact evaluation of external quality assurance in higher education institutions) to a wider interested audience. Four case studies of impact evaluation of quality assurance in higher education institutions were presented...

Often there is no exhaustive definitive formula for strategising problems because of the complexity of the causal interconnections; therefore, there is no definite stopping point when a problem is solved, i.e., such a thing as the one and only strictly objective problem solution does not exist (for an outline of planning dilemmas, see Rittel & Webb...

The aim of the article is to provide a framework in which the organisational impact of external quality assurance (EQA) can be assessed. Based on existing studies of the impact of EQA in universities and colleges it is suggested that greater systematisation of how impact is measured is needed for a better understanding of how EQA can be used as a p...

In this paper, the theoretical perspectives and general methodological elements of impact evaluation of quality assurance in higher education institutions are discussed, which should be a cornerstone of quality development in higher education and contribute to improving the knowledge about the effectiveness (or ineffectiveness) of quality assurance...

Evaluation of Development Programs in Learning and Teaching

Evaluation of Development Programs in Learning and Teaching

Zusammenfassung: Akademische wie öffentliche Bibliotheken sind gegenwärtig mit zahlreichen veränderten Rahmenbedingungen und Herausforderungen konfrontiert (z. B. technologische Innovationen; Dynamik von Bildung und Wissensgesellschaft; Ressourcenknappheit): Wie sollen Bibliotheken der Zukunft konzipiert werden? Wie kann die Leistungsmessung von de...

Die Realität als Prozess zu begreifen ist das Hauptanliegen der Philosophie A.N. Whiteheads. Mit Hilfe des Prozess-Begriffes vermag Whitehead naturwissenschaftlicher Erfahrung einen begründeten »Ort« in der Gesamtheit menschlicher Erfahrungsperspektiven zuzuweisen. Whitehead begann als Physiker und Mathematiker, aber seine Interessen richteten sich...

Structuring nature´s and science´s complexity : system laws and explanations. - In: Dynamisches Denken und Handeln : Philosophie und Wissenschaft in einer komplexen Welt ; Festschrift für Klaus Mainzer zum 60. Geburtstag / Theodor Leiber (Hg.). - Stuttgart : Hirzel, 2007. - S. 193-212