Notes from Gerald Decelles III’s trial lecture & PhD defense
Last week, I had a great day listening first to the trial lecture and then the defense of Gerald Decelles III’s PhD thesis, and it was so inspiring! Both his…
Tag: co-creation
Now published! “Student views on active learning in the Geoscience curriculum” by Kordts et al. (2025)
In this article, we investigate students’ experiences with active learning at the Geophysical Institute at the University of Bergen, Norway (where we have put a lot of effort recently into…
Currently reading Gravett (2022)’s book “Relational Pedagogies”, and thinking about parasocial bonding
It all started out with me listening to one of my all-time favourite podcasts, Teaching in Higher Ed, to an episode on designing video with intention and authenticity. Actually, it…
Currently reading Stensaker & Matear (2025) on “Student involvement in quality assurance: Perspectives and practices towards persistent partnerships”
Including the student perspective in quality assurance of teaching is required by law in Sweden (and other places), and this means that they are asked to respond to surveys at…
Co-create your own adventure — our presentation at MNT 2025
Kjersti Daae and myself have a poster at MNT today (kindly presented by Anna-Marie Strehl). Below is the text we wrote for the conference proceedings.
Currently reading McBrady (2025) on “Don’t Set Goals, Set Systems: Using Decoding the Disciplines and Students as Partners to Strengthen a History Department and its Teacher Candidates”
I decided to read this article because I am thinking about both “decoding the disciplines” and “students as partners” in different contexts, and I wanted to see how they come…
On all the levels of decision making when sharing responsibility for learning (after Heron, 1992)
I have been thinking a lot about how we want to share responsibility when co-creating, responsibility for what, and sharing with whom, and then Cathy recommended the Heron (1992) chapter…
Currently Reading “Advancing Student Engagement in Higher Education: Reflection, Critique and Challenge” (Lowe, 2023)
Students can engage in higher education in different ways: behavioral, emotional, cognitive, or in any combination of those. Traditionally, this is seen as engagement with the curriculum inside the classroom,…
“Integrating learning and work: Problems and prospects”: Currently reading Ellström (2001)
Yesterday, I had a really inspiring chat with a colleague and they mentioned a model by Ellström (2001) that really helps think about how much freedom vs guidance we want…
Reading about connections between theory and practice in teaching, metaphors for learning, and academically-supportive friendships
We recently ran a round-table discussion on “How to teach students who are not “mini-me”s (and don’t want to be)” at the Lund University Teaching and Learning conference last year,…
Currently reading: The impact of content co-creation on academic achievement (Doyle et al., 2021)
One part of co-creation — letting students create learning content for each other — has always been fascinating to me. The idea is that in order to create meaningful materials…
Co-creating rubrics? Currently reading Fraile et al. (2017)
I’ve been a fan of using rubrics — tables that contain assessment criteria and a scale of quality definitions for each — not just in a summative way to determine…
Three ways to think about “students as partners”
As we get started with our project #CoCreatingGFI, we are talking to more and more people about our ideas for what we want to achieve within the project (for a…
How much of the work should the teacher vs the student do? Teaching as a dance, inspired by Joe Hoyle
This week I spent in a really interesting position: Sitting in the back of a workshop on “introduction to teaching and learning in higher education”, occasionally giving inputs, for example…
Funded: Our project on “co-creation to promote active learning and communities of practice”
This week, we got super exciting news: Kjersti‘s and my proposal to the active learning call by the Norwegian Directorate for Higher Education and Competence (HK-dir) got funded (perfect timing,…
Just published: Co-Creating Learning in Oceanography
Kjersti and I just had an article published: “Co-Creating Learning in Oceanography” (Glessmer & Daae, 2021)! In this article, we discuss ways in which to share responsibility for learning between…
Negotiating a rubric of learning outcomes and letting students pick the format in which they show they’ve mastered the learning outcomes
I’m still inspired by Cathy’s work on “co-creation”, and an episode of “Lecture Breakers” (I think the first one on student engagement techniques where they talked about letting students choose…
Co-creating learning and teaching (Bovill, 2020)
Maybe it was because of the contexts in which I encountered it, but I always perceived “co-creation” as an empty buzzword without any actionable substance to it. I have only…
