Honors Student

Technische Hochschule Augsburg

Wir entwickeln gefragte Persönlichkeiten, die Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft aktiv mitgestalten – praxisnah, wissenschaftlich fundiert und zukunftsorientiert. Gemeinsam gestalten wir die Welt.

Didaktik-Medien-Zentrum (DMZ)

Das übergeordnete Ziel des Didaktik-Medien-Zentrums ist die Weiterentwicklung der Lehre und des Lernens an der Technischen Hochschule Augsburg. Das DMZ verwaltet in diesem Zusammenhang die digitalen Abzeichen – „Open Badges“ – der THA.

Augsburg Technical University of Applied Sciences

We develop sought-after personalities who shape the future of business and society – practice-oriented, academically grounded, and forward-thinking. Shaping the world together.

Center for Teaching and Media (DMZ)

The Center for Teaching and Media aims to keep improving teaching and learning at the Augsburg Technical University of Applied Sciences. As part of that, the DMZ manages the university’s digital badges – called “Open Badges.”

Contents:

• The subjectivity of failure: What even counts as a mistake?
• How culture shapes our relationship with failure — from shame and risk-taking to classrooms and start-ups
• Language learning and mathematics: How getting it wrong is part of getting it right
• When the wrong result was the right product: The business case of accidental innovation
• Mistakes in engineering, software and construction: When prevention is critical
• When mistakes cost lives: Lean processes and the serious side of failure
• (Un)control: Design, creativity and embracing the unexpected
• Fault, blame and forgiveness — how we deal with mistakes as humans
• AI and mistakes: Ethical questions and the need for human oversight
• Vulnerability, courage and psychological safety: frustration as part of the process

Duration:

• 13x 1.5 h in presence
• 8 h self-study

Course management:

Alisa Kasle-Henke, M. A.; Lecturer for Business English Communication in the Language Center & Cross Cultural Management Trainer at the School of Business

Lecturer:

• Alisa Kasle-Henke | Introduction to Honors and Failing Forward: The Power of Mistakes

• Prof. Dr. Claudia Meitinger | Electrical Engineering | The Living Dead Patient – A Story about Mistakes, Errors, and Bugs

• Prof. Dr. László Kovács | Liberal Arts and Sciences | Fault, Blame, Forgiveness

• Prof. Dr. Michael Feucht | School of Business | From Post-It to Viagra: The Business Case of Failure

• Prof. Dr. Svea Schauffler | Languages and Intercultural Communication | Language Learning and Mistakes

• Prof. Dr. Florian Hörmann | Mechanical and Process Engineering | Mistakes, Errors, Failing

• Alisa Kasle-Henke | Languages and Intercultural Communication | Understanding Mistakes across Cultures: From Classrooms to Entrepreneurship

• Prof. Dr. Andreas Muxel | Design | (Un)control

• Prof. Dr. Sarah Hatfield | School of Business | The Learning Organisation – Why Failure and Vulnerability Matter

• Prof. Dr. Peter Cocron | Liberal Arts and Sciences | The Perfect Imperfection

• Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Krön | Architecture and Civil Engineering | Construction Defects – Amusing and/or Consequential?

• Prof. Dr. Alexandra Teynor | Computer Science | 17 Frustrated Software Developers and the Agile Manifesto

• Prof. Dr. Barbara Eschner | School of Business | Decoding the Psychology of Innovation Fears

• Prof. Dr. Caroline Justen | Liberal Arts and Sciences | Mistakes in Mathematics

• Prof. Dr. Jana Görmer-Redding | Computer Science | How Mistakes Fuel Digital Innovation