Future Education at KTH is a change programme with a framework that will help us to be proactive and structure our development work of KTH's education based on a long-term holistic perspective.
The framework consists of 13 principles clustered in 5 areas.
Fika Chat on the Future of Education episode 61 with Lars Uppvall. Graphic by Malin Ringsby, KTH.
Podcast #61
Fika Chat on industry partner collaboration in education
Is the solution or the process most important in a project course involving external parties in order to give students authentic, wicked problems to work on? What are the challenges and side effects? How do you as a teacher get started and what should you consider? Marcus Lithander and Joakim Lilliesköld discuss with
Lars Uppvall
, Master's Programme Director (Indek, ITM), project manager in Future Education at KTH and KTH SoTL contributor.
Fika Chat on the Future of Education episode 60 live with Paris Carbone. Graphic by Malin Ringsby, KTH.
Podcast #60
Fika Chat with THS Teacher of the Year Paris Carbone
How do you go from dislike and fear to joy? How do you scale up motivation and skill in larger student groups? But also, AI and what academia should learn from YouTubers came up in the conversation between
Paris Carbone
, Marcus Lithander and Anna Jerbrant. Paris is an Associate Professor at EECS and Director of the Data Systems Lab. The THS student union awarded him for his innovative and experimental teaching methods.
Fika Chat on the Future of Education episode 59 from Storträffen Meetup.
Podcast #59
Fika Chat at Storträffen Meetup for Education and KTH SoTL
The big meeting for education – what's going on there? Why is it essential for KTH, and why should you go next time? Marcus Lithander asks teachers, students and employees how they experience the Grand Meeting, what they do there and think about current issues in the development of education at KTH.
"Fika Chat on the Future of Education" is a podcast for sharing knowledge and perspectives on educational development – at KTH and beyond.
Storträffen meetup – with Fika Chat – for even greater excellence
Watch the Fika Chat podcast episode at Storträffen (with bonus material), and the recorded documentation of the opening and closing sessions with keynote speakers Rodrigo Muro and Suzanne Brink. This ...
What is the pedagogical value of open learning environments like Spaces, and why is it essential that they are open and accessible to KTH students? Watch a slightly different Fika Chat where Anders Ca...
How KTH and Industry Are Working to Meet Future Competence Needs
The competence needs of the industry are evolving in response to societal changes and technological shifts such as digitalization and electrification. The demand for skilled professionals is significa...
Claes Hansson, Rebecca Hansén, Jessica Matz, Johan Kristoffersson and Jake Jeong look back on their time in Södertälje with pride and look ahead.
Thank you Södertälje – let's turn the page
He was destined to go for a career in music, until he discovered programming and computer science. Now, the student union at KTH has awarded Associate Professor Paris Carbone the title as teacher of the year for his experimental and innovative teaching methodology.
Gunnar Tibert received the Borelius Medal at the SCI school's summer party on 4 June.
Borelius medal 2024
Gunnar Tibert awarded the 2024 Borelius medal
The 2024 Borelius medal has been awarded to Gunnar Tibert for “his significant contributions to the school’s education through his forward-looking, supportive, and analytical leadership”.
“Catherine is an enthusiastic and captivating teacher and supervisor. She is deeply appreciated by the engineering students and doctoral students,” says the motivation.
Farazee Asif
, associate professor and docent in circular manufacturing systems at the School of Industrial Technology and Management (ITM), was awarded KTH's pedagogical prize in 2023. At the
Storträffen on 14 May 2024
, he talked about his student-centred and flexible learning methods in the the course
MG2043 Circular Manufacturing Systems (CMS)
.
Tomas Ekholm
, associate professor in mathematics at the School of Engineering Science (SCI), was awarded KTH's pedagogical prize in 2022. In his keynote at
Storträffen Meetup December 2023
, Tomas shared his thoughts (in Swedish) on teaching; he talked about time, driving forces for knowledge formation, opportunities for success and the meeting with the students (lecture time).
Luigia Brandimarte
is an associate professor and docent in Hydraulic Engineering at the School of Architecture and Civil Engineering (ABE), was awarded KTH's pedagogical prize in 2022. In her keynote at
Storträffen Meetup May 2023
she shared her thoughts on cross-border education to prepare tomorrow's engineers to handle wicked problems.
Chalmers’ educational programmes are in constant development. Read the interview with Vice President Jörgen Blennow, who discusses the ongoing changes aimed at transforming Chalmers into a world-class technical university, in line with Chalmers’ so-called group strategy.
Mats Magnusson
is Deputy Head of School and Director of Third Cycle Education (FA) at the School of Industrial Technology and Management (ITM). His blog post on the theme of change gives a current picture that characterises everyday life for many of us today at KTH.
Engineering Education Education Futures: How will AI & ML transform higher education?
"He exaggerated a little," said an audience member after Professor Arnold Pear's end note at SoTL 2023. Arnold talked about, among other things, individualised learning experiences and how campus institutions must rethink their resources. Do you agree?
Summary of CDIO's meeting about the future of engineering education
In January 2024, KTH hosted CDIO's regional meeting focusing on the future of engineering education. Read a summary of the day's discussions and main takeaways.
Current Research in Higher Education Pedagogy is the newsletter that shares new research on teaching and learning in higher education in an easily accessible way. Some articles are in English.
Via the "Education" mega menu on the intranet, you will find web pages that collect support resources for teachers and administrators, everything from design tips, manuals and process descriptions to news and support activities.
English translations of web pages may take some time.
Remember that many links on this start page lead to other parts of KTH's website. In particular, we publish more formal decisions, organisation and plans of the programme on the intranet entry for "Organisation and Regulations":
Change programme for Future Education at KTH
.
