Jan Ehlers

• Teaching and learning research in the context of example-based and case-based learning
• Development, implementation and evaluation of electronic learning applications
• Use of artificial intelligence in tertiary teaching
• ESD - education for sustainable development
• Digital Planetary Health
• Human-Animal Studies
• Digital transformation of the health care system
• Mobile learning
• Summative and formative examinations in a university and postgraduate context
• Admission procedures for applicants for a place at medical school
• Progress testing
• University didactics
• Interprofessional learning
• Competence-orientated development of learning objectives

• Sinnikka Schmalschläger, Secretariat
• Prof. Dr Michaela Zupanic, Junior Professor
• Julia Nitsche, MSc, research assistant Assistant
• Jan Smetana, M.A. research assistant
• Vivian Lüdorf, M.A. research associate Assistant
• Paul Tingelhoff, cand. med. student assistant

• Veterinary medicine

Appointment:

Since 1 July 2017:
Holder of the Chair of Didactics and Educational Research in Health Science, Witten/Herdecke University, Faculty of Health

Since 1 January 2017:
Vice president of Witten/Herdecke University

Since 1 October 2014:
Chair of Didactics and Educational Research in the Health Care System, Witten/Herdecke University, Faculty of Health

2012 - 2014:
Head of the Competence Centre for E-Learning, Didactics and Educational Research in Veterinary Medicine

2005 - 2014:
eLearning consultant at the Hanover University of Veterinary Medicine Foundation

2004 - 2005:
Academic Councillor at the Surgical Veterinary Clinic of the University of Munich

1998 - 2004:
Academic staff member at the Gynaecological and Outpatient Veterinary Clinic of the University of Munich

Studies:

1990 - 1997:
Studied veterinary medicine at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Munich

1998 - 2000:
PhD thesis at the Gynaecological and Outpatient Veterinary Clinic of the University of Munich "Standardisation and reproducibility of vaginal cytology in the bitch and its use in determining the optimal mating period"

2006 - 2008:
Master's programme "Educational Media" (educational sciences, media didactics) at the University of Duisburg Essen, Master's thesis: "Peer-to-peer learning in veterinary teaching using the example of CASUS cases"

2011:
Specialist veterinarian for informatics and documentation

2014:
Recognition of habilitation-equivalent achievements by the state of NRW

Model degree programme in medicine

• Problem-orientated learning
• Learning and examination workshop
• Enjoy learning to learn
• Pre-clinical work
• Scientific work
• Doctoral colloquium
   

Nursing sciences

• Recognising health needs and health problems - Seminar 2: Evidence-based health promotion and prevention
• Supervision of theses
• Planetary Health & Disaster Preparedness
   

Studium fundamentale

• Digital transformation (masterplan)
• Climate crisis and gambling
• Human-animal relationship
• Reflection on sci-fi and fantasy films
• Extremism in social networks
• Planetary Health Challenge
   

Didactics academy

• E-learning - basics and media didactics
• Online moderation
• ChatGPT in university teaching
• Course planning and design
• Planetary Health Education
• Structured oral examinations
• Examiners with multiple choice questions (LAMA)
• E-assessment (LAMA)
• Basic learning seminar
• Captain, my Captain
• Tuesdays with Morrie
• Educational research
• University didactics
• Tertiary education
• Human-Animal Studies
• Planetary Health
• Digital transformation of the health care system
• Social Media
• Digital Learning

Memberships

Member of ViEW, AMEE, GMA, DGHD

Member of the Editorial Board "GMS Journal for Medical Education"

Member of the Editorial Board "Frontiers in Public Health"

Member of the Editorial Board "Frontiers in Veterinary Science"

Member of the Editorial Board "BMC Medical Education"

Member of the examination board of the Lower Saxony Chamber of Veterinarians for the award of the title of Specialist Veterinarian for Informatics and Documentation

Member of the Board of Experts "The Health Captains Club"

Certified trainer of the State Academy for Medical Education (LAMA)

Member of the advisory board of the HSKLab of the Capital City Congress

Speaker of the Scientific Advisory Board of the FOM University Essen

Member of the University Council of the FH Dortmund

Awards

2018 Dental Education Award

2023 Humboldt Award for Sustainability