CAKL's ongoing research spans areas such as learning environments, widening participation and digital learning.

Research in pedagogy in higher education

Pedagogy in higher education deals with adult learning within the framework of higher education. Students' learning within formal learning situations is explored with an interdisciplinary approach, based on different theoretical perspectives and with different research methods.

Academic subject specialists from all over the University meet to jointly explore and design academic teaching. Ongoing research spans areas such as learning environments, professional development, broadened participation, digital learning, challenge-based learning and academic literacy.

Research conferences and seminars 

CAKL arranges seminar series and participates in conferences with a focus on higher education pedagogy. The seminars are given in English via Zoom.

CAKL's research seminar about teaching and learning in higher education

 

Seminars during spring 2025


April 2 at 15.00 – 16.00

Knowledge criteria and knowledge progression

Education aims to learn students more complicated issues as they advance through an educational system. There are, in other words, a progression regarding educational objectives. In the seminar different forms of progression are identified as well as discussing the use of taxonomies like Bloom and Andersen as an illustration of knowledge progression.

Speaker: Stefan Sellbjer, Associate Professor, Department of Pedagogy, Linnaeus University

Moderator: Martin Stigmar, Centre for Teaching and Learning (CAKL), Malmö University


May 14 at 15.00 – 16.00

Teaching as artistic co-creation

Speaker: Anna Santucci, The Centre for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (CIRTL), Cork University

Moderator: Fredrik Portin, Centre for Teaching and Learning (CAKL), Malmö University

 

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