Course syllabus
Welcome to HPA201: Research methods in teaching and learning in higher education (15 HEC)
The course is fully online and the first meeting is Thursday 14 September, 15.00-18.00, on Zoom:
https://gu-se.zoom.us/j/65946960620?pwd=aFk0dzJzbDc1UEVxZ2ZjRGV6NFcrdz09
Meeting ID: 659 4696 0620
Passcode: 167598
The semester starts 28 August and the preparations for the first course meeting on Thursday 14 Sept include reading the following texts:
Tight, M. (2018). Higher education research: The developing field. Bloomsbury Publishing. Available online: https://www-bloomsburycollections-com.ezproxy.ub.gu.se/monograph?docid=b-9781474283779
Tight, M. (2019). Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses of Higher Education Research. European Journal of Higher Education, 9(2),133-52. https://www-tandfonline-com.ezproxy.ub.gu.se/doi/full/10.1080/21568235.2018.1541752
Dafouz, E., & Smit, U. (2022). Towards multilingualism in English‑medium higher education. Journal of English-Medium Instruction, 1(1), 29–47. (18 pages) https://www-jbe-platform-com.ezproxy.ub.gu.se/docserver/fulltext/jemi.21018.daf.pdf?expires=1691587968&id=id&accname=goteborgsswe%2F6&checksum=946BC60D72A874A717922BBADD38FB70
The following course dates are:
Thursday Oct 5, 15.00-18.00
Thursday Nov 2, 15.00-18.00
Thursday Nov 23, 15.00-18.00
Thursday Dec 14, 15.00-18.00
Thursday Jan 11, 15.00-18.00
The course runs half-time, which means that you are expected to study 20 hours per week, including attending to lectures/seminars, and completing individual and group assignments as part of the course requirements.
Course content
The course focuses on introducing relevant methodological procedures in the field of higher education as an area of research and development. The relevance and possibilities/limitations for research and development of the various approaches will be highlighted. The course aims at developing participants’ understanding of how research problems and development projects can be formulated, planned, carried out and evaluated. The course will address the potentials of qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods for the production and analysis of data.
Syllabus, literature and learning platform
The course is organized in modules in the learning platform Canvas. If you are new to Canvas, find out morehttps://www.gu.se/en/study-gothenburg/study-options/find-syllabus-and-reading-list?q=HPA201 here: https://studentportal.gu.se/english/e-services/canvas You can find the syllabus and the literature list here: .All the course literature is available online, via the university library.
Administrative advice and support
Get access to e-services, incl university library, as a new student and online (without the GU card) https://studentportal.gu.se/english/e-services/gu-card
At the online Student Portal you will find all student information: http://studentportal.gu.se/english/
If you have concerns or questions that are specifically about your upcoming studies, you can contact the following staff members.
- For study administrative issues, please contact:
We are looking forward to meeting you in the course!
/Mona Lundin, Ann-Marie Eriksson and Roger Säljö (course leaders)
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