In this episode 8 of my podcast Managing Around I'd like to introduce you to SoTL research. SoTL is the widely-used acronym for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, a research approach that is to say a systematic inquiry into student learning which helps to advance the practice of teaching in higher education. And by doing this, I will present you a teaching project in which I tried to analyse student's problem-based learning and community engagement within a service learning course. We will come to the details later.

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The number of business start-ups in Germany – measured in terms of business registrations, and thus also the number of entrepreneurs – has fallen steadily in absolute terms over the last decade. But the picture is completely different in the social and health care sector, where social enterprise start-ups are booming.

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