All university members of the THM are guided by the following principles in the teaching and learning context:
(As of February 2025)

1. Create an open learning environment
   All teachers and learners maintain a cooperative and social interaction. All people in their diversity are met with mutual respect and trust. We strive for equality of opportunities. With this attitude we promote motivated teaching and learning.
2. Define and communicate sustainable competence goals
   Based on the current state of science and technology, the respective professional field -specific requirements as well as on the mission statement, the guiding principle and the strategy for study and teaching of the THM, the departments define suitable competence profiles that also aim at the individual personality development and the assumption of social responsibility (in accordance with §15 HessHG in the version of December 14, 2021).
3. Communicate performance requirements transparently and guide reflection
   The teachers create the prerequisites for competence -oriented and reflected learning processes.
4. Promote active learning
   The teachers promote and demand that students take on their own learning process. They promote active learning by using self-directed learning processes and in the respective learning situation appropriate and activating teaching/learning methods.
5. Use feedback from learners for teaching/learning processesTeachers actively help to establish a constructive feedback culture at the THM , in which teachers and students jointly take responsibility for a successful teaching and learning process.
6. Enable individual technical and didactic Professional Development
   The university promotes and requires continuous individual didactic and technical Professional Development as well as cooperation between teachers. The process of lifelong learning is actively demonstrated to students.
7. Ensuring framework conditions for the development of didactic skills and concepts
   The further development of the didactic concepts and the necessary infrastructure is an integral part of the quality management of the university. It is actively promoted by the university management and promoted by the lecturers in their events.

With the adoption of these principles by the Senate, quality-determining criteria are available for the core process of teaching. They were selected by the “Higher Education Didactics” topic group Working Group "Quality in Teaching and Studies" (AG QLS) Developed.

The Workgroup: Quality management is a topic-related network for quality development in teaching and studying, which works as a voluntary network of all those involved in teaching in a self-determined and non-hierarchical manner and communicates its results openly.

Explanations of these principles and other recommendations of the Workgroup: Quality management for the design of teaching/learning processes are available to all members of the university on the THM learning platform.