HiOA has produced a video where Agnete Vabø interviewing Bjørn Stensaker on themes related to educational leadership. The video is only in Norwegian.
Part B updates
Presentation at EAIR conference
Educational leadership and technology. Findings from surveys in Norway and Denmark.
Researchers presented a draft paper on educational leadership and technology for discussion at EAIR – The European Higher Education Society Linking research, policy and practice in Porto, Portugal 3.-6. September 2017.
Presentations at CHER and EARLI
Researchers from the project will be presenting some of the results at upcoming CHER and EARLI conferences.
From part B – researchers are presenting at the CHER conference in Jyväskylä at the end of August. The panel is titled “Quality work in higher education” and includes contributions from project researchers ithat focus on internal systems and practices for quality work, disciplinary differences as well as quality management in study programmes.
Researchers from the project part C will also be presenting results from the project during the EARLI conference in Tampere, Finland, at the end of August. Paper presentations in invited and organized symposiums will disseminate mainly findings from Part C of the project, on pedagogical approaches that generate quality in higher education teaching and learning.
The invited symposium of the Special Interest Group ‘Higher Education’ will contain the paper Innovating pedagogical designs for student-centered learning: teachers’ approaches and challenges, written in collaboration by colleagues from Oslo and Helsinki. Another paper, Interactional meaning-making of assessment feedback in undergraduate education, will present material from one of the Norwegian cases analyzed in Part C.New report about educational leadership in Denmark
The Danish team from CFA has conducted a survey among study programme leaders in Denmark. The survey mirrors the Norwegian survey that was conducted earlier in 2016. In particular, focus is on how study programme leaders engage in quality work.
Associate Professor Ebbe Krogh Graversen, CFA (Picture: CFA) from the Danish team comments:
Although the Nordic Higher Education system seems similar by many, it was surprising to find so many patterns of similarities between the Danish survey results and the comparable Norwegian survey. Furthermore, the detected differences seem to be explainable by differences in recent priorities, developments and reforms within Higher Education.
The Danish and Norwegian teams are currently working in further exploring the similarities and differences between the two surveys and some possible explanations for such patterns.
You can download the Danish survey here (pdf, in Danish).
View also the earlier published Norwegian survey results here (pdf, in Norwegian).
More detailed comparative analysis will be conducted in the coming months.
Maassen presentation about quality management.
Professor Peter Maassen presented some preliminary insights regarding quality management at a seminar that was arranged on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Faculty of Educational Sciences at the University of Oslo. The seminar took place on 27th of September 2016.
In the following presentation, Peter Maassen provides a presentation: “Quality Management of Norwegian Higher Education: complexities and visions on possible future developments“. Before the presentation, professor Monika Nerland introduces the overall seminar.