Stronger together! – teaching team for programming courses
The project involves creating opportunities to share resources and responsibilities by coordinating several different introductory courses in programming, which can lead to more equal assessment, fewer cancelled learning activities due to illness, and greater staff flexibility as for assistants.
Project context
Most of our programme students take a programming course, but these courses currently look different. Although some examination material is shared, the course structure and examination rules are different. Assistants must be trained in each course offering and students receive different help and answers depending on the course. The courses are very vulnerable, teachers have difficulty covering for each other in case of illness, partly because we have different structures, and partly because our courses have activities in parallel.
Purpose (outcome)
The aim is better coordination between introductory programming courses and thereby create the opportunity to share resources and responsibilities. In the longer term, this can lead to more equal training and assessment, work environment benefits for teachers and assistants, and a supportive structure around the courses, making it more attractive to work with us.
Project results (output)
- A mapping of participating courses and what coordination benefits there are. Identified areas for joint course development and closer cooperation.
- A jointly developed working method for coordinating courses that creates the opportunity to share resources and responsibilities, e.g.
- how we respond to student questions
- joint assessment meetings/course training for assistants on different courses but with similar examination elements.
- Coordination for participating courses within current syllabuses, of course elements, course rules and course organisation. Scheduling with a coordination perspective of autumn 26's courses.
- Fewer cancelled learning activities due to illness.
- More equivalent assessment between courses - addressing differences in similar examination elements.
Time plan
Start date: 2025-06-03
End date: 2026-06-19
Project documentation
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- Poster: The project’s first poster (in Swedish) will be available at the ”Storträffen” meetup on 2025-12-01
- Project initiation document: Projektdirektiv_FrU25_2509-EECS_Starkare Tillsammans_250510 (Swedish)