Invitation to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Conference
All staff at Kristianstad University and Blekinge Institute of Technology and all students active in the Student Unions are invited to participate in HKR:s Higher Education Pedagogy conference Scholarship of Teaching and Learning arranged by Kristianstad University in cooperation with Blekinge Institute of Technology on the 21th of August 2013 in Kristianstad. The aim is to create a forum where we can share knowledge and experience of teaching and learning in higher education and a build a platform that can act as a springboard for pedagogical qualifications in the academic system. All are hereby given the opportunity to share their knowledge and reflected experience with colleagues and to be inspired both by each other and our specially invited keynote presenter.
Our teachers, researchers, PhD students, course- and student administrators, librarians and support staff of various kind have over the years built up substantial knowledge and reflected experience of learning in our subjects, teaching in our courses, supporting our students and of the conditions under which learning is successful at HKR and BTH. A number of our teachers have also during the years conducted empirical studies in development projects and have developed important knowledge on student learning in courses and programmes at HKR and BTH. We would like to encourage all of you to take this opportunity to inspire your colleagues and let yourselves be inspired by others so that we together can develop the pedagogy and create the best possible premises for our students to learn in the different educational tracks represented here at BTH.
By presenting your insights at the Higher Education Pedagogy conference you contribute to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. The conference offers an excellent opportunity to take part in the pedagogical discourse while at the same time building on your own pedagogical qualifications. Making one's knowledge and reflected experience public in the form of a conference presentation and ensuing discussion and by publishing a full paper in the conference proceedings are established ways of demonstrating your skills in academia - this applies also to teaching skills.
To this end all with an interest in these matters, staff at HKR and BTH or active students at the Student Unions, are invited to take part in the Higher Education Pedagogy conference Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.
Date: 21th of August 2013
Venue: Högskolan Kristianstad
Time: 9 AM - 5 PM + after event
Conference language: Swedish and English
Purpose:
- To create a forum that inspires discussions and knowledge building on and about learning and teaching in higher education and the conditions for this activity.
- To establish a platform for pedagogical qualification that gives teachers an opportunity to present their reflected experience and documented knowledge on teaching and learning in higher education.
- To offer a meeting place where teachers, course- and student administrators, staff in supportive roles and representatives from the student union can meet for advanced conversation on quality in our education and the learning that is afforded.