inclusion – Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching

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

mglessmer — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 20:09:52 +0000

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 they might otherwise not get — it is of course not as easy as that. GenAI is only as good as the data it is […]

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

mglessmer — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 16:47:50 +0000

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 thing and therefore should cooperate much more than they currently do, I came across the book “All means all” and the chapter on “The Magic […]

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

mglessmer — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 12:52:01 +0000

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 available! Considerably longer versions of what we ended up being able to publish in our vignettes are available on my blog: “Fieldwork bingo cards” (Daae […]

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Such an easy way to make people feel welcome and seen

mglessmer — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 19:42:02 +0000

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 because in addition to a “welcome to Hamburg!” or “hope to see you again soon!” announcement and the Hamburg song, for each ship they tell […]

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

mglessmer — Sat, 31 May 2025 15:04:41 +0000

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 that we are supposed to consider when designing teaching. Initially, I tried making sense of all the different facets by finding examples of what they […]

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

mglessmer — Wed, 28 May 2025 07:00:29 +0000

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 System! When Marie presented in the LU “Accessibility Tuesday” series last year, she provoked a lot of thoughts in me — many about the room, […]

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Reading about assessment for inclusion and distinctiveness

mglessmer — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 17:42:19 +0000

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 al. (2024) open on my computer for months, but now that I am going into a week of vacations (yay!!) it’s time to close documents, […]

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

mglessmer — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 10:26:45 +0000

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 here I am reading up on it. Hedvall and Ericsson (2024) summarise it in their article’s title already: “The Problem with “Inclusion”? It Is Done […]

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

mglessmer — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 16:27:18 +0000

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 and told us about their work at the Disability Support Services (which are a unit at the Study Support and Learning group within Lund University […]

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

mglessmer — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 15:15:40 +0000

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 guidance and advice for projects and reports towards the end of the course, but I’m attending the other meetings, too, just because it is always […]

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