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Currently reading Forsyth et al. (2025) on “The impact of AI on inclusive learning communities”

February 5, 2026

While some people see big potential in GenAI to make learning and teaching more inclusive — by leveling the playing field through providing people with personalized instruction and support that…

Currently reading Ahlberg et al. (2025) on “The Magic of Inclusion: Transformative Action for Sustainability Education”

October 29, 2025

Preparing for a presentation that Terese and I will be giving soon at the “Inclusive Lund University” conference on how the inclusion and sustainability communities very much want the same…

Now published: The book “Teaching fieldwork in geography, earth and environmental sciences”!

August 24, 2025

Feels like a very long time ago, but Kjersti, Hans-Christian and myself contributed two vignettes to the book “Teaching fieldwork in geography, earth and environmental sciences“, which has now become…

Such an easy way to make people feel welcome and seen

July 3, 2025

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In Hamburg, there is a “ship greeting station” called Willkomm-Höft (“welcome point”), where every ship is greeted going in and out of the port. I have always loved that place…

Exploring the UDL 3.0 version, inspired by an episode on the Tea for Teaching podcast

May 31, 2025

It took me a while to appreciate the UDL* framework since I first started looking into it 3 years ago. Without context, it seemed overwhelming in the amount of details…

Watching the presentation “accessibility and inclusion in digital learning” by Marie Leijon

May 28, 2025

I was super excited to get the notification that a recording of the presentation “Accessibility and inclusion in digital learning” by Marie Leijon had been uploaded to our Learning Management…

Reading about assessment for inclusion and distinctiveness

March 22, 2025

I have had the pdf of the article ‘There was very little room for me to be me’: the lived tensions between assessment standardisation and student diversity” by Nieminen et…

Currently reading: “The Problem with “Inclusion”? It Is Done to Someone by Someone” by Hedvall & Ericsson (2024)

January 3, 2025

I recently discussed the problems with calling for “inclusion” with a participant in my course on, ironically, “the inclusive classroom”. But she told me about colleagues working on “nonclusion”, so…

My summary of a seminar about learning support for students with disabilities at LU

September 11, 2024

This afternoon, we had the second seminar in the “Inclusive Classroom” course, this time on “learning support for students with disabilities at LU”. Emma Carlsson and Philip Johansson visited us…

Kick-off of “Inclusive Classroom (UDL)” course

August 28, 2024

New academic year, new courses starting! Today, the “Inclusive Classroom (UDL)” course, that I am involved with together with Lotta Åbjörnsson and Håkan Eftring. My role is mostly to give…

Currently Reading “Advancing Student Engagement in Higher Education: Reflection, Critique and Challenge” (Lowe, 2023)

April 13, 2024

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,…

“Liberating structures: Engaging everyone to build a good life together” (Lipmanowicz et al., 2015) — go read it and try them!

February 29, 2024

My friend Sigrid does short interviews with trainers and facilitators on her company Memogic‘s youtube channel, and I watched the interview with Inna Fischer (in German) yesterday. Inna’s energy was…

Currently reading: “Ten simple rules for successfully supporting first-generation/low-income (FLI) students in STEM” by Peña et al. (2022)

November 18, 2023

As a very privileged continuing-generation student, I did occasionally notice how it helped when, during my studies, people in key positions at the university recognised my last name, or when…

Tips for creating inclusive classrooms at LTH (based on an article to be presented at LTH’s pedagogical conference this December)

November 16, 2023

I have been part of running a course called “the inclusive classroom” this fall. I learned a lot of new things both from other instructors (for example Louise’s excellent “office”…

Recommended watching: The myth of average (Todd Rose)

September 21, 2023

I recently watched “the myth of average” by Todd Rose, and he makes the most convincing argument for not designing teaching for “the average student” in hopes of that making…

Revisiting Universal Design for Learning

August 29, 2023

I have again been chewing on the “Universal Design for Learning” idea for the last couple of days. This was prompted by us agreeing that we want to let participants…

Reading Gin et al. (2021) on “how syllabi can serve as communication tools for creating inclusive classrooms”

January 13, 2023

This is mostly a “note to self”: Found a really interesting article on “how syllabi can serve as communication tools for creating inclusive classrooms” by Gun et al. (2021). A…

Reducing bias and discrimination in teaching: an annotated, incomplete — WORK IN PROGRESS! — list of references

June 2, 2022

Already at the time of posting, I have added to my to-read list for an updated version of this post. Please let me know of any additional literature I should…

Choosing technical terminology that does not make people feel excluded or uncomfortable

May 20, 2022

A colleague recently sent me a great article by Peter Kirn: “So yeah, let’s just use plug and socket — industry group recommends obvious change in terminology“. In the article,…

Thinking about decolonising the curriculum (inspired by Dessent et al., 2022)

January 14, 2022

[Edit 5.9.2022: I just read “Decolonization is not a metaphor” by Tuck & Yang (2012) and I am very much using decolonization as a metaphor in the blog post below. That…

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Currently reading Forsyth et al. (2025) on “The impact of AI on inclusive learning communities”

Currently reading Ahlberg et al. (2025) on “The Magic of Inclusion: Transformative Action for Sustainability Education”

Now published: The book “Teaching fieldwork in geography, earth and environmental sciences”!

Such an easy way to make people feel welcome and seen

Exploring the UDL 3.0 version, inspired by an episode on the Tea for Teaching podcast

Watching the presentation “accessibility and inclusion in digital learning” by Marie Leijon

Reading about assessment for inclusion and distinctiveness

Currently reading: “The Problem with “Inclusion”? It Is Done to Someone by Someone” by Hedvall & Ericsson (2024)

My summary of a seminar about learning support for students with disabilities at LU

Kick-off of “Inclusive Classroom (UDL)” course

Currently Reading “Advancing Student Engagement in Higher Education: Reflection, Critique and Challenge” (Lowe, 2023)

“Liberating structures: Engaging everyone to build a good life together” (Lipmanowicz et al., 2015) — go read it and try them!

Currently reading: “Ten simple rules for successfully supporting first-generation/low-income (FLI) students in STEM” by Peña et al. (2022)

Tips for creating inclusive classrooms at LTH (based on an article to be presented at LTH’s pedagogical conference this December)

Recommended watching: The myth of average (Todd Rose)

Revisiting Universal Design for Learning

Reading Gin et al. (2021) on “how syllabi can serve as communication tools for creating inclusive classrooms”

Reducing bias and discrimination in teaching: an annotated, incomplete — WORK IN PROGRESS! — list of references

Choosing technical terminology that does not make people feel excluded or uncomfortable

Thinking about decolonising the curriculum (inspired by Dessent et al., 2022)

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