Tablets for flexible digital teaching and examination

Mapped principles 

The project is mapped to the following framework principles:

P4. Assessment and examination for learning

P3. Active student-centered learning 

P7. User-oriented support services 

Definitions of the principles

Contact 

(until the project manager has been appointed)

Anna Jerbrant associate professor

anna.jerbrant@indek.kth.se , 087906785

Profile

This KTH-wide project is implemented within the Future Education programme (project no. 2501-KTH).

Project context

At KTH today there is an acute shortage of permanent computer rooms, largely due to the increased number of students caused by the campus relocations. Furthermore, the standard computers in permanent computer labs cannot always be used for the software needed in various technology areas for digital teaching and examination. In addition, the number of courses at KTH that conduct digital examinations has decreased alarmingly since the pandemic, which is in direct contradiction to KTH's digitalisation strategy. Finally, KTH (EDO, PD, and the IT department) has never had tablets in its operational environment and both routines and a business model for such management are currently lacking.

Purpose (outcome)

The aim of the project is to contribute to:

• Reduced shortage of permanent computer labs, as the use of tablets enables the creation of temporary computer labs/rooms for digital examination of traditional classrooms  

• Increased scope of digital teaching and examination as tablets can handle other types of software than the permanent computers in the computer labs  

• In the long term, flexible use of tablets in teaching and examination can lead to a more student-activating and digitalized teaching (in accordance with KTH's digitalisation strategy) that more closely resembles the students' future working methods in the professional role. 

• Enable increased diversity of examination forms, with increased flexibility, without being dependent on booking permanent computer labs or on examination periods. 

Project results (output)

• Pilot realised using approximately 50 already existing tablets, where a selection of examiners/course managers at ITM have had the opportunity to test flexible digital teaching and examination with effective and teacher-friendly operational support (evaluation of perceived benefit and educational advantages). 

• Defined process (where the main actors are the examiner/course manager and business support) for physically handling tablets (retrieval from and return to the server room) and thereby creating temporary computer rooms/rooms for digital examination out of our traditional classrooms. This also includes to define which classrooms that can/should be scheduled for tablets. The process should be tested and verified in practice using the approximately 100 tablets that have already been purchased.  

• Defined and tested sustainable financial management and financing model for booking, administration and operation of tablets. 

• Proposal for how the management object can become part of the management portfolio, if the project is successful. 

Time plan

Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2026-06-01

Project documentation

If you have a KTH ID, you can read the latest project documents on OneDrive when logged in:

• Poster: The project’s first poster (in Swedish) will be available at the ”Storträffen” meetup on 2025-12-01
• Project initation document: Projektdirektiv_FrU25_2501-KTH_FlexDigTablets_250917 (Swedish)