Course Syllabus
Welcome to HPA102: Didactic perspectives on teaching and learning research in higher education (7.5 HEC)
The course is fully online and the first meeting is Wednesday, January 17th, 15.00-18.00, on Zoom:
The semester starts January 15th and ends March 20th.
The course dates are as follows:
Wednesday Jan 17th, 15.00-18.00
Wednesday Jan 31st, 15.00-18.00
Wednesday Feb 7th, 15.00-17.00
Wednesday Feb 21st, 15.00-18.00
Thursday Feb 29th, 15.00-17.00
Tuesday March 12th, 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/workshops, and completing individual and group assignments as part of the course requirements.
Course content
The course introduces different issues in relation to adults' learning in higher education based on research on teaching and learning in higher education, and with special relevance for design and implementation of teaching. Contextual conditions for didactic approaches in the own subject area and different teaching practices are addressed. The concept didactics is discussed and problematised in relation to interpretations, theoretical points of departure together with implications for different teaching contexts. Furthermore, consequences are addressed from different points of departure for design and application of forms for teaching in higher education. Subject traditions and underlying norms in teaching practices are problematised. In this, inclusion and widened participation are also addressed as a dimension of didactic perspectives on adults' learning. The course gives possibility to profiling with regard to the own teaching context.
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/distance-student.
You REGISTER for the course between January 5 and January 12, after creating a GU-account and logging into the Student Portal.
Please check your email account you used when you applied to the course regularly. All information will be sent to this email address. 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:
I am very much looking forward to meeting you in the course!
/Sylvi Vigmo (course leader, examiner)
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