Don't forget to sign up for next spring! 

Don't forget to look through our wide selection of courses and seminars regarding higher education pedagogy before it's too late! 

The registration period for courses this spring ends April 15 2023. 

Should you have any questions please e-mail us at epu@slu.se 

More distinguished university teachers here at SLU!

The most recent round of admission is now finished and the Vice Chancellor has appointed eight new distinguished university teachers here at SLU, who are as follows:  

• Professor Anders Dahlberg
• Researcher Matthew Low
• Professor Åsa Berggren
• University Lector Lars Johansson
• Researcher Assem Abouhatab
• Professor Tomas Roslin
• University Lector Emil Sanström
• Educational Manager Maria Lingaas. 

We want to congratulate and wish them luck going into their new roles!

Educational development projects

The Board of Education has allocated a sum of 1.5 million kr to fund educational development.

Forty applications, representing all the educational diversity SLU has to offer, were submitted for assessment .

The applications were reviewed and judged by EPU alongside four Distinguished University Teachers and one student representative.

Eight of the applicants and their respective projects were granted funding and will proceed to conduct and report on their projects during 2023 and 2024.

We would like to congratulate the following applicants:  

-   Alistair Auffret, ”E-lärande för floristik och allmänbildning”

-   Back Tomas Ersson, ”Digitalisering av fältundervisning –utveckling av marteloskopsövningar som möjliggör återkoppling vid undervisning i nya skogsskötselsystem”

-   Camilo Calderon, ”Embracing AI as pedagogical tools in the ECM programme”

-    Catarina Svensson, ”Utveckling av material för e-lärande för färdighetsträning i klientcentrerad veterinärmedicinsk kommunikation”

-     Emanuel Erlandsson, ”Virkesköp – den saknade länken i digitaliseringen av undervisning i skogsindustriell råvaruförsörjning”

-     Karl Lundén, ”Slaget i Skogen - Digitalt och fysiskt brädspel om skogsekologi och klimat”

-      Lena Holm, ”Digital histologiundervisning – hur nyttjar vi bäst tekniken?”

-      Susanna Stenberg Lewerin, ”Verktyg för undervisning i djurhälsolagstiftning”

The conference "Forskning om högre utbildning"

The conference "Forskning om högre utbildning" was held May 11-12 in collaboration between Stockholm University and the scientific journal Högre utbildning. 

The keynote speakers were the prominent educational theorist Gert Biesta and one of Sweden's most recognized researchers in educational psychology, Roger Säljö.

Biesta problematized the idea that what can primarily make our educations better is more research and also asked the question how much research does education actually need? Biesta also wanted to discern what kind of research education we might need and what kind of research that may get in the way of education.

Säljö, in his presentation, took a historical approach to technology for documenting and conveying knowledge, from stone tablets to today's Chat GPT.

Apart from the keynote speakers, a large number of research presentations, panel discussions and workshops were performed. What stood out at this year's conference was that a lot of new and exciting research in the field of higher education is being conducted by a growing group of young doctoral students.