Fika chat on external review of educational programmes at other universities with Martin Viklund
Podcast "Fika Chat on the Future of Education" – episode 75
Fika chat on the future of education episode 75 with the podcast guest Martin Viklund.
How can external reviews of other universities' educational programmes strengthen the quality and relevance of KTH's programmes? Martin Viklund, Professor at the School of Engineering Sciences (SCI), and Anna Jerbrant, Programme Manager of Future Education at KTH, share their experiences and explain why they would welcome external reviewers to their courses and programmes.
The principle framework
of the Future Education programme consists of 13 principles grouped into five areas (A–E). Today's podcast episode relates to the following area and principles in the framework.
D) Educational culture for quality
P9. A developing education culture
10. Continuous competence development in the teaching role
11. A management system for quality development
Please note that today's Fikasnack has been brought forward to 2 p.m.!
Podcast guest: Martin Viklund
Martin has an impressive CV as both a researcher and teacher; among other things, he has been programme director (PA) for the Master's Degree Programme in Engineering Physics and has been rewarded "Teacher of the Year" by THS, the KTH Student Union. Martin has been asked on several occasions to conduct peer reviews of other universities' educational programmes (primarily in engineering physics)..
Martin has also previously podcasted in Fika chat on the Future of Education: in episode 34 on the role of programme director (PA) and in episode 39 about admission rules with Lars Strannegård, President of the Stockholm School of Economics (Handelshögskolan).
Experiences of peer review at various universities
In today's live episode, Martin shares his thoughts and experiences from his assignments reviewing programmes at other universities and how this has helped him in his programme development work at KTH, with podcast hosts Marcus Lithander and Anna Jerbrant, Programme Manager for the change programme Future Education at KTH. Anna has also conducted several external review assignments.
What have they gained from it? How does it work? Why is it worth investing the time? What effects could it have on the quality of education at KTH?
Welcome with your questions in the Zoom chat!
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If you want to print the transcription file on KTH Play, you can find the transcription function by 1. clicking the icon at the top right of the video view (a text field appears to the left in the video view) and 2. Click on the three dot menu that appears.
If you are looking for more extensive information about a particular episode, they are also found on
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.
About the podcast
Marcus Lithander chats over coffee (fika) with guests from or outside KTH about the future of education in general and our change programme "
Future Education at KTH
" in particular.
Post questions live or email beforehand
Since we are podcasting live, you have the opportunity to ask questions and comment during the conversation. You can also email questions beforehand to
framtiden@kth.se
.
Co-create for the podcast
Do you have suggestions for podcast topics? Then you are welcome to contact
framtiden@kth.se
(write "podcast" in the subject line).
