040225 KU Escaping the Midstudycrisis (2024S)

The course supports students who are in a later stage of their studies with at least 100 ECTS points but currently doing little or no study achievements. The specific goal is to increase the examination activity of the participating students to at least 16 ECTS per semester. The students learn strategies to maintain the improved study performance in the following semesters and to successfully complete their studies in the near future.
Participating students agree on a learning agreement on the basis of which access to courses and offers of the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) that are critical for their studies is facilitated.

Content:
- Your reasons: Motivation for studying
- Inventory: how are you spending your time right now?
- Definition of goals and planning of your studies
- Implement goals and keeping at them
- Find concentration and get more things done
- Dealing with a large amount of study material
- Dealing with procrastination
- Create accountability
The contents are further extended on the basis of suggestions from the participants.

The course is organized as an interactive, course that uses moodle as an information hub. It integrates different formats:
- Live sessions with the lecturer
- short video streams with impulses, tips and suggestions
- Support through messages that indicate newly published content
- Regular meetings on specific topics in small teams of four people
- Participatory exchange between the participants and the teacher through condensed communication of the small group results or questions in the live sessions.
- accompanying workshops by the CTL.