Students were offered to do small assignments during the course. These assignments gave them extra points at the final examination. The purpose was to motivate them to engage in a relatively extensive course literature written in English. It turned out that the more assignments that students did, the better they also scored at the assignments in the final exam. (Swedish only.)
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Story: Multimodal logbook at VFU for better teacher-student contact
In the vocational teacher education, students at their VFU (Placement) have kept a multimodal digital logbook about some pre-determined assignments that are related to the course objectives. The assignments were about mind maps, assessment matrix and tripartite conversations, i. e. three different forms of reflection. (Video, 24 min., only in Swedish)
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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.
Continue reading “Torgny Roxå on improving teaching culture”Tips: Students create their own quiz questions
Examination arrangement where the students in a course create quiz questions for a question bank that is used in the examination.
Continue reading “Tips: Students create their own quiz questions”Story: Planned on-campus courses off-campus
The story of challenges and solutions during an urgent reorganization of an on-campus course in Informatics to off-campus during the pandemic in the spring of 2020. (Video, 28 mins., Swedish language.)
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What will make your students engage extra in their studies? How can we, as teachers, influence this?
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