The "Educational Sciences" degree programme teaches skills for supporting and analysing educational processes. Students learn to analyse educational conditions from psychological, educational and sociological perspectives and to design effective educational measures. The degree course covers three fields of application: Human resources and organisational development, e-learning and education management. These skills open up a wide range of career prospects in human resources, e-learning agencies and educational institutions and for a further Master's degree.

The degree course combines a high level of research with a strong focus on practice, in that students work both in small groups on real-life practice projects from external clients in the profit or non-profit sector and on an individual research project. This allows them to directly apply the skills acquired in the degree course and, in addition to an in-depth understanding of teaching and learning, they also acquire very good communication and problem-solving skills that they can successfully use in various professional fields.

The institute is part of an international network. With regard to teaching, there are Erasmus exchange programmes (including in France, Spain, Portugal and Finland). Through the EUCOR programme, students can participate in events organised by the Upper Rhine universities in France and Switzerland. The Institute's research has an international focus which is reflected in publications in international technical journals and presentations at international conferences. Furthermore, guest scientists from other countries are regularly invited to exchange ideas.

The institute has a very good IT infrastructure and the latest software for developing computer-based learning environments. Other seminar rooms of the institute are equipped with interactive whiteboards. There is also a lab room at the Institute for learning experiments, up-to-date software for carrying out experiments, an eye-tracker that can be used to research eye motion as well as video equipment to carry out observation studies.

The Institute of Educational Science explores the conditions, processes and results of teaching and learning within and outside educational institutions, with the aim of contributing to an evidence-based approach to the analysis and promotion of human learning. Both (quasi-)experimental studies and field studies are used. We are also developing tools for measuring the skills of teachers and students. We use our expertise to develop competence-oriented courses in all our degree programmes.

As part of the supplementary programme, students can acquire a "Sustainability Certificate" and a "Digital Competencies Certificate".