By Anna CohenMiller, February 22, 2024
The start of 2024 begun with some exciting directions that explore and extend ideas around pedagogy and lifelong learning! Here are just a few key insights to the work and training of teachers and students we’ve been working on.
Nord Master’s Plus Kick-Off
Coordinating the program, Anna CohenMiller and Tor Eivind Aaneland led the kick-off on the 12th of January for this innovative research based program for first year students at the University.
Included here are a few photos from the communications team at Nord University posted on LinkedIn. In it we can see the group of outstanding Master’s students who were selected for the program. Standing with them is Anne Pedersen, and each student proudly showcases their signed contracts. In this program taking place over the year, the cross-disciplinary set of students will be involved in real-world research, educational training, and have opportunities to build local and international networks, while gaining insights for applying for a PhD program.
Moving forward, Anna and Tor Eivind, working with Malin Olsen, are developing the steps for the next set of active teaching and learning with students for the spring meet up on April 13th, 2024.
Workshop for Master’s in Human Resource Management
On the 12th of January, Bjørg Ramskjell and Kaspar Rasmussen ran an insightful workshop for a team of HRM-educators. With Anne Kamilla Lund from HRM, the workshop was conducted in the new Nord location in Bodø town center.
Using an engaging framework based on imagining the future [Fremtidsverksted] to develop ideas for the next steps for human resource management teaching and learning, they guided educators through discussions on how to improve the HRM Master’s program. Building on the visions from the workshop – and inspired by feedback from students and the study council board committee – the HRM-team is now enhancing the study plan and topics accordingly.
Lifelong Learning Course Development
A team including Mary Ann Jermstad and Anne Sophie Elgseter and teams are working on developing a lifelong learning course for adults, including practical and pedagogical learning in both synchronous and asynchronous format, which will start in the early spring. The team is considering research around adult students focusing on their unique needs. It is so easy to fall back into the “traditional” role of a teacher as the bearer of all knowledge instead of finding answers together with students. What does it mean to be a facilitator within a teaching context?
For example;
- How do you implement theory and knowledge of adult needs within the praxis?
- What does means to be an adult, to be an adult student? What are those characteristics and how does it apply to the facilitation of the learning process?
- What are the practical implications of the course development and implementation?
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Let us know what you think! How is research affecting your teaching and learning practices today?
