“Around the world” podcast

Episode 6: Chahira Nouira, University of Göttingen, Germany

Alexandra Mihai
The Educationalist
Published in
3 min readFeb 14, 2022

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Welcome a new episode of the “Educationalist: Around the world” podcast, the first one in 2022! This week I am happy to be joined by Chahira Nouira, Instructional Designer at the University of Göttingen, Germany.

Almost 15 years ago, Chahira started her career as an educational technologist for European NGOs and student initiatives. She then worked for United Nations University (UNU) at the Institute for Environment and Human Security in Bonn, where she was in charge of facilitating capacity development workshops in e-Learning with teaching staff from universities based in Europe, Africa and South East Asia. Since December 2016, she has been a member of the Digital Learning and Teaching team at the University of Göttingen. She first worked for the “Internationalisation of the Curricula” project and helped with the successful implementation of more than 30 digital and collaborative teaching initiatives across participating faculties in cooperation with Universities from around the world. Since April 2020, Chahira has been in charge of Digital Teaching and Learning in the 2.2 million euros project “liveSciences³ — Transnational and Digital Linked Life Sciences”. You can find Chahira on Twitter here.

In this podcast Chahira talks about how she has been using her e-learning and facilitation skills in the context of various international projects in the past decade. She reflects on how the Covid-19 pandemic has impacted her work, especially while being involved in a big project focused on international mobility. Her experience in the last years taught her about how the good use of virtual environments, together with digital skills development can benefit interdisciplinary collaboration, broaden the geographical reach and even help surpass language barriers. “It’s all about creating room for flexibility”, says Chahira. She recommends us to intentionally make time and space for discussion and exchanges, on the one hand, and for experimentation, on the other.

If you are curious to hear Chahira’s story I kindly invite you to listen to our conversation.

“Around the world” podcast- Episode 6: Chahira Nouira (33:57 min)

This post is part of the “Around the world” series on faculty development. Watch this space in the coming months for more inspiration on professional development approaches in Higher Education from around the globe.

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Written by Alexandra Mihai

Assistant Professor of Innovation in Higher Education @MaastrichtU. Passionate about designing new learning spaces. My newsletter: educationalist.substack.com