Educational Innovation

Our Learning Model focuses on students' all-round development, which promotes independent and meaningful learning and enhances the development of their knowledge, skills, attitudes, competences and values.

UD teaching staff competency development plans

Teaching staff competency model

New teaching staff

Training new teaching staff

Training part-time teaching staff

UD’s teaching staff use active methodologies

Problem-based learning

Project-based learning

Debate

Learning and service

Flipped Learning

Lesson Study

We have our own quality model for the planning, development and evaluation of teaching, which aims to meet the current requirements of the Quality Agencies at state and regional level (Docentia Programme) and to promote the professional development of lecturers in their university community.

Improving Teaching Quality

Formative assessment aims to assess teaching competences and it involves lecturers, students, colleagues and academic leaders.

Formative Assessment in Undergraduate Degrees

Formative Assessment in Master's Degrees

Accreditation evaluation is carried out on two levels: planning (label 1) and implementation (label 2).

• Label 1 for Quality in Teaching Planning
• Label 2 for Excellence in Teaching Implementation

We are part of a large network of Jesuit universities worldwide, with over 200 institutions.

Promoting teaching innovation is a challenge that we share in the Educational Innovation Units or Departments at these institutions. This is how we contribute to the dissemination of the mission across our universities.

Here you can find the Jesuit universities that share the same mission and seek excellence to provide our students with an all-embracing education. This excellence is aimed at serving others. As Father Arrupe said, “men and women for others and with others".

We firmly believe in networking to implement this mission. Therefore, the map shows the different units and departments with names such as “Learning Innovation Unit”, “Educational Innovation Unit”; “Teaching and Learning Center”, “Center for Teaching Excellence”, “Center for Teaching and Learning”, “Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning”, etc.

This network allows us to: share best practices, hold seminars and conferences, address cooperation projects, draw up joint publications, promote mobility schemes across universities, etc. Ultimately we hope that, thanks to this network, we can share this same journey.

The International University Innovation Forum (FIIU) will be a source of support and assistance for the innovation projects of its members and will allow to create a compendium of knowledge, successful designs and innovation models specific to higher education focused on the Higher Education Innovation Model as a benchmark through various projects, courses and meetings.