The general principle for higher education is that it is voluntary for the student. The only mandatory element is the examination. However, certain course components can be made mandatory, even if they are not part of the examination. How?
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Constructive Alignment in practice
Constructive Alignment (CA) is a model for designing educations in higher education. This is how you apply it, step by step.
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The Constructive Alignment model is the basis for development of teaching and examination at KAU.
Continue reading “Constructive Alignment is the basis for education at KAU”Frameworks and rules for teaching: Explain the principles, please
In this short film (Swedish only) the main principles of the hierarchy of laws, ordinances, recommendations, policies and rules governing university teaching are explained
Continue reading “Frameworks and rules for teaching: Explain the principles, please”Frameworks and rules for teaching at Karlstad university
Teaching at Karlstad university, a government agency, is regulated locally by policies and rules. These governing documents are harmonized with laws, governances, recommendations and agreements on national and European level. From here, you will find your way to most of the local gouverning documents.
Continue reading “Frameworks and rules for teaching at Karlstad university”Special support for students with special needs
Some students need special arrangements to be able to participate in teaching and examination. If the needs are due to a permanent disability, they are entitled to such support. The teacher/examiner must, however, not decide for himself whether the student has needs that entitle a student to support. Such assessments and decisions are made by Enheten för studentstöd (the Unit for Student Support).
It is the student himself who applies for special support. The basis for receiving support is that the student has a documented disability.
Note that the teacher/examinator only need to have access to the actual decision, not to documents regarding the medical status that was basis for the decision about support. Such documents should be handled only by the Unit for Student Support.
If the student is granted special support, a decision is issued by the Unit for Student Support informing the teacher/examiner on what kind of arrangements that should be made in examination (or in the teaching, depending on what the decision says).
Common support is extra time for examination, oral examination or examination in a small group.When the decision is about support related to the actual teaching and learning activities, it may involve, for example, help to make lecture notes, the right to have access to material in advance or in talking book format and the like.)
- Students with special needs
Collected information about different types of support that can be offered to students at Karlstad University.
Frameworks & Rules
Teaching at a government agency is regulated nationally by laws, ordinances and national recommendations. All these governing documents are also harmonized with agreements at European level. We are also governed by local policies, rules and procedures here at the Karlstad university. From here, you will find your way to most of these.
ICT: Tools for examination
KAU has two tools for handling specific examination-related matters. On the one hand Ouriginal for text comparison (to detect plagiarism) and on the other hand Inspera for digital exam. In addition, of course, we have Canvas and the functionality with assignments and Quiz.
NOTE that the university has replaced Wiseflow to Inspera for digital examinations in autumn 2022.
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KAU has an automated, integrated system for course evaluation. And a new one is on track to be introduced in 2022.
Continue reading “ICT: Evaluate teaching”ICT: Subtitling of video
The law on the Accessibility of Digital Public Services (DOS law) stipulates that all films and videos used in the university’s education must be subtitled. You can get support to fulfill this requirement.
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