Open Access

Maria Rauschenberger, Eva-Maria Schön, Ilona Buchem, Stefano Sostak

• Due to circumstances such as digital teaching during the coronavirus pandemic and the emergence of powerful artificial intelligence tools (e.g., ChatGPT), digitization in higher education has increased rapidly in recent years. For this reason, innovative didactic concepts are being applied, and new teaching methods are being tested. One of these is value-based learning, an approach that aims to develop students’ values alongside specialist knowledge. The objective of this research is to investigate how value-based learning can be implemented in higher education through agile practices and agile values. Thus, we have chosen a multiple case study research method that includes three case studies at different German universities of applied sciences. The results show that the application of agile practices and values varies by context and is individualized. Therefore, we developed a conceptual model that shows how value-based learning can be applied to higher education through agile practices and agile values. This conceptual model shows how courses and modules, as well as students and lecturers, evolve through continuous feedback over the course of a semester. Moreover, it allows students to be taught competencies that enable them to adapt to continuous change.