COURSE DESIGN

How do I proceed about designing an entire course?
Constructive alignment is the designated model for course design at KAU. Here you’ll find more on constructive alignment and lots of other useful things for teachers designing courses.

Story: Follow a distance student

The project Follow a distance student followed students who took distance education during the pandemic in the spring semester 2020 and mapped their experiences and needs. The goal was to be able to develop pedagogy and technical pedagogical aids in distance education during the autumn term 2020. The students’ experiences were about loneliness, swaying technology and the distance form itself. (Video, 45 mins., Swedish language).
A survey performed by Karlstad’s student union about student experiences during the pandemic is also reported.

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Torgny Roxå on improving teaching culture

In his presentation at UPE’s conference Redefining Learning Spaces 2021, Torgny Roxå shared his experiences from developing academic teaching culture at Lund University. It is a lot about using students course feedback and teachers’ course evaluation as tools to gradually create positive change over a long period of time.

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