Month: February 2019

190202

The reasoning about academic teachership/Scholarship of Teaching and Learning is important, relevant and motivates me to participate in this course. I really believe in emphasizing the teaching and understanding of in-depth knowledge about teaching in a similar way to research. This perspective makes sense and it become more interesting for me to engage in my own and others’ educational development. The clarification between “Teaching excellence” and “Teaching expertise” is also relevant and inspiring. I think and hope that our course AUPU2 is about developing the latter.

The big challenge concretising the policy for quality work is, from my opinion, within “Area 2 Cultural/Collective” according to Figure 1 (Elements of an integrated quality culture). By focusing on shared values, participation and trust, highlights the challenge of how a quality assurance system must be perceived both as relevant and important for the organization and as something that improves for the individual. It´s also worth noting that the majority of the quality assurance work is delegated to the faculties which probably means different actions in different faculties.

According to the figure 2 (Mozelius & Hettiarachchi 2017) I consider myself teaching in a face to face manner with minimal technology/media ingredients. As a historian teaching mainly at advanced level and being trained in the humanistic/social science tradition I have found myself in a context where the technology, as it is described in the articles, has not always found its way into teaching. The subject of History’s focus on sources, theories and analysis of texts may have made the entry of new technology difficult. (At the same time, there may be some of a healthy skepticism here.) And at the same time many courses is “blended with distance students”, not always with best results. One reason for the more traditional teaching is probably that one may not always feel comfortable with the digital tools and cannot see their possibilities.

I want to develop a new course I´m in charge responsible for this semester focusing on Heritage studies where I, so far, want to develop a new way of assessing with video. But there is of course more possibilities. After this course I would like to find myself in the middle of the box, that is, I can maneuver freely in the various pools in Picciano’s conceptual multimodal model. All this in order to be able to offer the students additional opportunities to deepen their critical thinking and create opportunities to meet materials and perspectives that they would not otherwise have acquired and make interpretations that give new insights.

According to my digital experience in teaching I would consider myself as an explorer (A2). Correctly I´m one that need more insight and inspiration to expand my competences.