VU-PPUN300 Teaching and Learning in Higher Education - Technical and administrative Staff

The course addresses topics that are central to developing competence to promote good teaching and learning. After completing the course, participants should be able to facilitate student learning by assessing, selecting and justifying appropriate goals and content for their teaching programs, and finding methods that are appropriate in relation to this in the subject area they teach.

VU-PPUN300 will provide basic competence in university pedagogy (equivalent to PPUN400), by supplementing with a reflection note and a one-day seminar.

Knowledge

The candidate can explain

• learning theories that are relevant to their teaching
• relevant didactic questions and approaches within their subject
• the principles that can be used in the planning of teaching
• how the study program that one's teaching belongs to is built up how one as a technical / administrative employee can apply his / her competence in this principles
• how to guide individual students and groups
• current teaching methods and teaching principles, ranging from lecture to problem-based learning
• how to analyze and describe work tasks and how to specify the skills needed to perform the tasks
• different types of assesment
• how study quality work and evaluation of teaching are organized at NMBU
• NMBU's philosophy of learning and its theoretical and practical implications.

Skills

The candidate can

• apply the above knowledge to increase their teaching in the individual session and over time with a view to promoting student learning
• help develop the learning environment among students and staff
• reflect on their teaching and develop it further
• find subject material that can illuminate questions one encounters in the design and development of one's own teaching.

General competence

The candidate have

• insight into ethical issues that can enroll in teaching and can express to implied which considerations must be taken into account
• can communicate own development work orally and in writing
• can communicate with other teachers involved in the current subject and study program on how the teaching should be organized, and in this context be able to point to relevant educational perspectives.