Best Practice Guide for Designing and Delivering EPICUR courses

Guidance and resources to support EPICUR course development, cc-by-sa

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Best Practice Guide - resources to support the design and delivery of EPICUR courses

Review the EPICUR Best Practice Guide available from the EPiC TLC > Explore. This guide walks you through what makes an EPICUR course distinctive. You will be introduced to the EPICUR Values, EPICUR International Learning Competences, and the course design and deployment checklist.

Resource Sheets

If you have more questions about the mode of delivery, online, blended, hybrid or in-person – you can read the resource sheets to get more of an idea of how to structure the course. Other resource sheets may be useful to come back to once you are planning the course.

Checklist

The deployment checklist will help you determine if your course aligns with EPICUR criteria. It’s okay if you can’t answer all of the questions now; you can return to the checklist as you further develop your course. If you have answers to all the required fields at the course proposal stage, you can submit your course to your Institutional Coordinator. The current course propoal sheet can be found here.

Course Templates

Find out what course design templates your university requires you to use. Most universities have their own templates which they require you to use to get a course validated.

Timeline

Find out about the validation process for the Department or Study Programme where this course will be validated. A course may need to be validated early in the semester which precedes the semester when it will  be taught. If you are co-developing a course with one or more educators from other EPICUR universities, one of your universities will need to validate the course.

Further Support

We recommend contacting educational developers at your university to hear their advice on designing and delivering an EPICUR course. Your university contact person, available below, can put you in touch with an educational developer at your university.

Local teaching support units

EPICUR Institutional Coordinators

Adam Mickiewicz University
Karolina Choczaj
karmench@amu.edu.pl

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Nikos Kouloussis
nikoul@agro.auth.gr

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Michael Zacherle
zacherle@kit.edu

University of Amsterdam
Tiffany Boersma
t.a.boersma@uva.nl

Universität Freiburg
Charlotte Langowski
charlotte.langowski@zv.uni-freiburg.de

Université de Haute-Alsace
Léa Ziri
lea.ziri@uha.fr

Universität für Bodenkultur Wien
Nicolas Fries
nicolas.fries@boku.ac.at

University of Southern Denmark
Ida Thøstesen
ilt@sdu.dk

University of Strasbourg
Pascale Nachez
pnachez@unistra.fr

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This page is part of a Wiki, the "Best Practice Guide for Designing and Delivering EPICUR Courses" by the EPICUR European University Alliance, consisting of the University of Strasbourg, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, University of Southern Denmark, The University of Amsterdam, Adam Mickiewicz University, University of Haute-Alsace, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, BOKU University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna and the University of Freiburg.
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Last edited: 23. Jun 2025, 09:05, Hutz-Nierhoff, Dorthe [dh1076@rz.uni-freiburg.de]