Mikael on the digitalisation work of the future

Last week, KTH's strategic council had a conference where we had a workshop on the theme "KTH for a digital world - the digitalisation of operations". What will the education at KTH look like in ten years? Which scenarios can we anticipate and work towards to take advantage of the possibilities of digitalisation? (Develop new ways of working, campus, premises and business support, attract different target groups of students, teachers and researchers).

Some of the subjects that were raised follows here. In the years to come, it will be even more important to have a good campus environment and good infrastructures, to meet the global competition when it comes to educations that can be taken online. The students themselves emphasize the importance of being able to have physical meetings if needed. The need for flexible housing, for students who study at a distance and have to come to campus will sometimes, will increase. We will also need to develop our digital teaching with so-called "flipped classroom", where students, to a greater extent, are expected to have read the lesson content beforehand, the lesson in turn becoming more of a discussion.

During the spring, we had to switch to distance education and everyone has done a fantastic job of making this work, even when it comes to our labs. This autumn, we have started with a mixed variant based on the Swedish Public Health Agency's recommendations, where the requirement for social distancing changes classroom teaching for large student groups. We will all have to be prepared to move on to distance education during the autumn in various stages.

We have had our first established case of covid-19 amongst the CBH student body, and we at the school have implemented the following measures: We have informed the student group of the infected student, so that they can avoid visiting older relatives, and then referred to KTH's website for more information (where there is a link to student health etc.).

• Those among the staff who taught the current student group have been informed.
• The teaching for the relevant student group will be held completely online for 1-2 weeks.
• If no more cases are found in the group, the teaching returns to normal after this period.

There will be more central guidelines on this subject soon. I am aware of how the situation is experienced and we must continue to help and support each other during the autumn.

Mikael