The overall aim of the programme is for the participants to gain the skills needed to be in charge of innovative teaching and educational experiments leading to continuous improvement of the quality of engineering education.
The experiments should be based on problem-based learning and aimed at groups of students with diverse backgrounds, for example with regard to gender, class, cultural background and age. The programme consists of 3 modules.
Module 1 - Development of Teaching Competencies (10 ECTS):
The subjects of the first module give a systematic introduction to fundamental concepts, theories and methods within the areas of learning theories, didactics and active learning. This more general knowledge has to be linked to experiences from own teaching practice which is the reason why the participants have to prepare a personal teaching portfolio.
Participants have to prepare a personal teaching portfolio which contains a self-critical reflection on and assessment of own teaching practice, seen in the light of the concepts, theories and methods presented in the project unit courses. The teaching portfolio should also contain reflections on future innovative teaching experiments in own teaching practice.
Module 2 - PBL Experiments (20 ECTS):
During this module, the participants will plan and design a specific lesson plan which include one or more elements from different Problem Based Learning models. The courses of the module support the development of process competences, the use of scientific methods and the integration of an intercultural perspective in education.
In collaboration with team members the participants have to design and plan an educational experiment, adapted to the teaching and/or institutional context and the given group of students.
Module 3 - Master's Thesis, research based design of PBL programme (30 ECTS):
The Master's thesis takes the form of a problem based project where the problem area of the project may aim at supporting the participants developing:
- either specialised knowledge within one or a few chosen areas of the professional field of educational development
- or broader insights into the field concerning theories and methods as well as central elements and the relations between such elements.
The project courses are examined via the project exam which may be an individual or a group exam dependent upon the project work. The study courses are examined independently via a final oral exam based on the submitted mini-projects. Skype or Adobe Connect will be used for the exams.
The project may involve project work individually or in groups, portfolio work, work-based learning activities etc. The project courses are supporting the project work.
See prospective classes in the Danish description of the course.