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Berglund, Anders, Jerbrant, Anna, Havtun, Hans , Johansson, Hans B., Andersson, Magnus, Hedin, Björn, Soulard, Juliette and Kjellgren, Björn (2015) The Pedagogical Developers Initiative – changing educational practices and strengthening CDIO skills. In: 11th International CDIO Conference, Chengdu, China, 2015, Chengdu University of Information Technology, China, 08-11 Jun 2015. Published in: Proceedings of the 11th International CDIO Conference, Chengdu, China, June 8-11 2015
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Abstract
This paper outlines a recently launched initiative with pedagogical developers (PD) acting as local agents of educational change at a major technical university. Traditional educational development are often emphasized either from individual passionate teachers ‘on the floor’, or from top-down reforms where the university directly, or working through a centralized group of full-time educational developers, seeks to bring about change. This PD initiative
strives to educationally empower and enthusiast teachers through the creation of local ‘communities of practice’, working primarily with pedagogical questions emerging from these communities and their experienced needs. The idea as well as the funding for the initiative, was decided at university top management level, but the PDs receive their legitimacy from their double identity both as teaching faculty as well as educational developers. The PDs
also have a strong mandate to cater locally emerging issues, and the outcome has so far been a wide variety of constructive pedagogical projects and plans, largely executed by the
teaching faculty. This paper will both describe the initiative in some detail, as well as briefly presenting work and preliminary results from different parts of the university. The paper will
also emphasize a more thorough presentation of the Learning Experience Questionnaire (LEQ), a tool for learning environment analysis and a starting point for the pedagogical programme at KTH. The work is also mapped against the CDIO standards and syllabus, and even as the project as a whole was primarily aimed at Standard 10, Enhancement of Faculty Teaching Competence, this mapping shows that the emerging projects fit a whole range of CDIO standards and syllabus. This indicates that the potential strength in pedagogical programme development that allows for by definition unpredictable bottom-up initiatives, while strengthening also cross-disciplinarian understanding within the community of practice created by the pedagogical developers themselves.
Item Type: | Conference Item (Paper) | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Engineering > WMG (Formerly the Warwick Manufacturing Group) | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Proceedings of the 11th International CDIO Conference, Chengdu, China, June 8-11 2015 | ||||
Publisher: | CDIO, Conceive, design, Implement, Operate | ||||
Official Date: | 2015 | ||||
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Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||
Conference Paper Type: | Paper | ||||
Title of Event: | 11th International CDIO Conference, Chengdu, China, 2015 | ||||
Type of Event: | Conference | ||||
Location of Event: | Chengdu University of Information Technology, China | ||||
Date(s) of Event: | 08-11 Jun 2015 | ||||
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