Three questions for “People With An Agenda”
“Even in early childhood, knowledge is acquired through playing together.”
HTA Innovation Professor Dr Markus Stäuble
Prof. Dr Markus Stäuble
What innovations in Education are you developing, and what motivates you to do so?
Markus Stäuble: Even in early childhood, knowledge is acquired through playing together. I aim to harness this potential in my teaching to provide students with a motivating way to engage with complex topics. Drawing on agile principles, I develop playful formats for the collaborative delivery of teaching content. To this end, I adopt a user-centred design approach and involve students directly in the development process. This ensures that the resulting format is tailored to the target group. Using a rapid prototyping approach, the formats are tested at an early stage and improvements are derived from this feedback. The result is formats that work effectively and are highly engaging and motivating.
In what way does your innovation help students to become responsible designers of the future?
Markus Stäuble: Students become producers right from the development stage of the learning formats. They develop teaching resources that are actually put into practice. Thanks to the rapid prototyping approach, students also always experience the product in use and receive direct feedback from the users. The formats are designed to enable students to apply agile principles and take responsibility for their own actions at an early stage.
How can other lecturers benefit from your innovation?
Markus Stäuble: The teaching formats developed with students can be used directly by other lecturers. The finished templates draw on cross-cutting themes (e.g. digitalisation, sustainability) so that they can be applied as widely as possible. Lecturers can also simply try out the formats for themselves to draw inspiration from them. Individual elements can be removed from the formats by the lecturers.
Her teaching agenda at HM in three words
Markus Stäuble: Playful, agile and forgiving of mistakes.
Prof. Dr Markus Stäuble began his academic career at Ulm University of Applied Sciences, where he completed studies in Technical Informatics, later building on this with a master's degree in Computer Science. His doctorate focused on the impact of mobile technologies on business management. Markus Stäuble has been Professor of Multi-Channel Publishing at HM since 2017 and incorporates his agile mindset into his teaching approaches. His research focuses primarily on gamification and the extent to which gamification concepts help to inspire students’ enthusiasm for STEM subjects.