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Among the cornerstones of engineering education – CDIO
‘Solfar’ or ‘Sun Voyager.’ The artist Jon Gunnar Arnason created the striking landmark. Published Jun 21, 2022KTH (Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan) faculty and representatives from The Department of Learning in Engineering Sciences visited the Reykjavik University in Iceland for the 18th CDIO International Confer...
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Instructions for Abstract submission 2023
Published Jun 16, 2022The KTH SoTL conference welcomes contributions of several formats. You can find instructions about the abstract process including important dates and deadlines, guidelines for abstracts and session fo...
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EHE - Enhancing Higher Education
Published Jun 14, 2022The Department of Learning in Engineering sciences in collaboration with the International Relations Office hosted a weeklong program called EHE (Enhancing Higher Education) for 26 participants. The p...
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Comparing public policies in Higher Ed to bring women to the board
Photo by Library of Congress on Unsplash Published May 10, 2022The purpose of this study is to compare academic leadership prospects for women in four countries: Germany, Poland, Norway, and Sweden.
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The university as Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft
Unsplash.com Published May 04, 2022The authors use Tönnies' twin concepts of Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft to analyze what early career academics (ECAs) gone through when they were recruited as assistant professors to gain tenure.
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Internationalisation of Higher Education Institutions in Mozambique
Photo by Alexandr Podvalny on Unsplash Published Apr 26, 2022University curriculums have undergone major reform with international content, branch campuses have been established, cross-border collaborations have been formed and programmes for international stud...
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Nordic researchers do not suffer from the law of Jante
Published Apr 11, 2022How do Nordic academics assess their own performance in teaching and research when compared to their peers? What does that assessment tell us about the changing culture of the academic profession in...
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Job satisfaction findings for Swedish faculty
Published Apr 07, 2022The project Academic Profession in the Knowledge Society (APIKS) held a conference in Aveiro, Portugal. The Swedish APIKS team, Khayala Ismayilova, Anders Broström and Lars Geschwind from HEOS were...
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More space technology at KTH
Published Mar 24, 2022Space technology is literally speeding ahead in the world and it is important for Swedish schools to keep up with developments. KTH wants to support teachers in keeping up with developments and can de...
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How are you doing with your teaching and educational development, and how would you like it?
Word cloud for the question “What three teaching / pedagogical methods would you like see more of at KTH? In the years 2016 and 2019. Published Mar 17, 2022How good are we at KTH and what should we do more of, or less of? Soon it will be time for the Pedagogical Survey 2022. The recurring Pedagogical Survey focuses on the climate and thoughts of teaching...
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The next SoTL conference is March 7, 2023
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Do you want to become a VFU supervisor?
Published Feb 24, 2022The university and the municipalities / districts have a joint task to collaborate on teacher students' VFU (work-based education) and to develop teacher education.
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Margareta Bergman retires after 17 years at KTH.
Published Feb 15, 2022From web editor, course administrator, project finance manager to director of studies at Teaching and Learning in Higher Education and Academic Teaching at KTH.
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Crossfire of interests in the recruitment of academic staff
Published Feb 15, 2022Malin Henningson and Lars Geschwind publish an article in the magazine Universitetsläraren about the employment process in universities.
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Students Ida and Nelly complete their Masters in collaboration with K-ULF
Published Feb 02, 2022Ida Fantenberg Niklasson and Nelly Wannberg have during the autumn of 2021 completed their final degree project, at the program Master of Science in Engineering and in Education at KTH. The degree pro...
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Teaching and Learning activities Unite! webinars, courses and training events
Published Jan 31, 2022The unite! European University Alliance welcomes all partner’s teaching staff to a series of activities designed to share and develop teaching and learning in an international setting.
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Call for participation in the 2022 Learning & Teaching Thematic Peer Groups
Published Jan 21, 2022The call for participation in the 2022 Learning & Teaching Thematic Peer Groups is now open. Participation offers EUA member institutions an opportunity for peer-learning and exchange of experience.
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Peer review in an Era of Evaluation
Published Jan 10, 2022Over the past few decades, peer review has become an object of great professional and managerial interest (Oancea, 2019) and, increasingly, academic scrutiny (Bornmann, 2011; Grimaldo et al., 2018). N...
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Podcast: Education for sustainable development
Published Dec 20, 2021Podspace: University pedagogical reconnaissance is a collaboration between four pedagogical developers from Stockholm University, Mälardalen University, Uppsala University and Lund University.
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