Pedagogical development project

In this module, you will work on a pedagogical development project that?you design and implement in collaboration with others at your unit, UiO, or beyond. 

Why choose this module?

In this module, you have the opportunity to delve into a university pedagogical practice, themes, or questions about which you are particularly curious.  

Your work may arise from your experiences with teaching and learning, supervision, educational leadership, or from topics you heard about in electives and the foundation module. 

    Tone Dyrdal Solbrekke is one of the four module leaders. Please visit the bottom of the page for the full overview over the module leaders.

    Tone Dyrdal Solbrekke

    "In this module your pedagogical development project is central, we are here to create opportunities for you to receive feedback from us and other participants, and to help you navigate the complexities of pedagogical innovation."

    In this module, you have the opportunity to

    • Reflect on your development as a university teacher, supervisor or educational leader  and plan the steps you will take to further improve your teaching and students’ learning.

    • Collaborate with other colleagues and if applicable students at your local unit to design and work on the pedagogical practice, theme, or question you have identified.

    • Give and receive feedback on your project from peers and module leaders.

    • Get support from a contact person at your unit, and our colleagues from University of Oslo Library.

    • Read relevant pedagogical research in your discipline and translate what you learn to your development project and ultimately to your teaching.

    • Use the SoTL criteria to reflect on your project and your own development and formation as a teacher.

    • Make public what you learned from your development work.

    Examples of pedagogical development projects can be

    • Co-design or co-redesign new learning activities and or forms of assessment.
    • Co-integrate practices to improve students' ability for academic writing in a course or program design.
    • Collaborate to strengthen links between research and education.
    • Co-develop a universally designed and inclusive learning environment?.
    • Co-create spaces for students and academics to meet informally and engage about education, research, careers.
    • Co-design and develop systematic work in peer-mentoring groups (kollegaveiledning) on education.
    • Involve students as partners in planning, teaching, teaching development, student evaluation, research or as learning assistants in the subject/program. 
    • Co-develop interdisciplinary collaborations in education.

     

    Organisation

    • At the core of this module are your development projects. You will spend the majority of time, a total of 38 hours, working on your project as well as assignments intended to provide you with the scaffolding you need for doing your project, new perspectives, and opportunities for feedback.

    • The module has four plenary sessions, a total of 12 hours, facilitated by LINK module leaders, subject librarians and others providing expertise and advice to your work on your project. We expect participants to engage in group work, which includes sharing experiences and ideas from their projects, as well as discipline-specific literature.

    • You will be connected to contacts at your home faculty to provide local contacts and strengthen pedagogical development at the respective faculties. You can also contact them about your project before applying to this module, please find their contact information here – we will continue to update this list

      • JUS - Tone Lynn W?rstad,

      • OD - Simen Kopperud,

      • UV - To be announced,

      • MATNAT - Tone Gregers,

      • SV - Siri Marie Aamodt,

      • HF - Baoxin?Long,

      • TF - To be announced,

      • MED - To be announced.

    Practical Information

    • In plenary sessions and on the Canvas site, the language is English. In group work, you can choose between a Scandinavian language and English. You can write your assignments in a Scandinavian language or in English.

    • Participants: Academic staff at the University of Oslo.

    • Module scope: 50 hours 

    • Admission requirements

      • At the time of application, you must be close to or have completed the?Foundation module in English or Grunnmodul in Norwegian 

      • Your development project needs to address teaching and learning (education) in your local unit or across programmes and institutions  and include collaboration with colleagues (e.g. administrators, leaders, students, or other academics) and approved by the module leaders.  

      • Approval of the project will be based on your application through EVUweb, where you will be asked to describe briefly (in 200-500 words) your?initial intentions?for the development project, including

        • What do you plan to do and why? 

        • With whom are you planning to collaborate and why??If you plan to collaborate with another applicant, please let us know who. 

        • What is your initial timeline? 

        • Describe with whom you have discussed your project in your department or faculty.? 

      • Admission to the module depends on the feasibility of your project. Registration for the module in spring 2025 is open from October 7th, 2024. 

    • Approval of the module completion is contingent on 80% attendance in plenary sessions, completing all assignments and one oral presentation of your project in small groups.

    • For administrative questions, please contact Paola L?vland.

    Module dates spring 2025

    Mandatory sessions

     

    Module Leaders

    Tone Dyrdal Solbrekke

    Tone Dyrdal Solbrekke

    Molly Preston Sutphen

    Molly Preston Sutpen

    Hannah Mülder

    Hannah Mülder

    Fredrik M?rk R?kenes

    Fredrik M?rk R?kenes