The Centre for Teaching and Learning (CAKL)

Teaching and Learning in higher education

CAKL's overall mission is to support Malmö University's aspirations to ensure high quality education as well as to sustain professional pedagogical development within further education that is conducive to a useful qualification. As a means to this, CAKL will forefront the establishment of a university-wide, pedagogical research environment to help promote courses and programmes that are scientifically based on pedagogy.

Our courses and programmes in teaching and learning in higher education are not only aimed at employees at Mau but also at any other interested parties.

Higher educational pedagogy - courses and programs

According to the university's employment regulations, at least 15 credits, (10 weeks) or corresponding formal university teacher training are required for employment as a teacher or for promotion to become a teacher. CAKL offers a number of courses of five credits each, which can be combined.

Independent courses in higher educational pedagogy

Professional development

CAKL offers continuing professional development in teaching and learning in higher education for teachers at Malmö University.

Education

CAKL offers courses and programs within different subject areas and at different levels. Apart from courses in teaching and learning in HE, CAKL offers foundation courses for university study, language courses in Swedish and English and PhD-courses in different subjects together with the colleagues from the rest of the university.

Education at preparatory level

Prerequisite courses in Swedish / Behörighetsgivande utbildning i svenska

These courses are designed for students with a foreign education who need to supplement their grades in order to meet the general entry requirements and specific entry requirements in Swedish to gain admittance in higher education. Additionally, the courses aim to prepare students for their further work within college and university studies. Tap on the links to read more about the courses.

Introduktionsutbildning - behörighetsgivande utbildning i svenska - helfart, 60 fup

Introduktionsutbildning - behörighetsgivande kurs i svenska - helfart, 30 fup

Introduktionsutbildning - behörighetsgivande kurs i svenska - halvfart, 30 fup

Contact

Josefin Bergfeldt, university lecturer

Anita Marttila, university administrator

Bachelor's studies

Introducing and qualifying courses for academic studies

Redskap för akademiska studier och karriär - RASK (in both Swedish and English)

The overall aim of the courses is to develop the student's skills in key areas for academics. The goal is for the student to develop tools to succeed in their studies and focus their skills development towards working life.

Speech and Presentation Technique through Drama - RASK, 4 credits

The following courses are given in Swedish:

Skriftlig färdighet i svenska som andraspråk - RASK, 3 credits

Akademisk text - RASK, 4 credits

Studieteknik - RASK, 3 credits

Karriär - RASK, 3 credits

Akademisk introduktionstermin, 30 credits (in Swedish)

Akademisk introduktionstermin (translated as the Academic introduction semester) has the aim to ease your way into the university and give you useful tools to succeed in further studies. The cours is given in Swedish.

Akademisk introduktionstermin, 30 credits

Akademiskt skrivande 7,5 credits (in Swedish)

Akademiskt skrivande (translated as Academic writing) is aimed for students who want to develop their ability to read and write academic texts and for those who have not studied at university/college before and who need to get started with writing after high school/Komvux. The course is also for hose who are already studying, and who feel that the ability to read and write academic texts is not quite enough.

The course is given in Swedish.

Akademiskt skrivande 7,5 credits

English for university studies

These courses offer support if you need to improve your English for university studies.

English Grammar Skills for University Studies, 7.5 credits

Introduction to Critical Thinking and Reading Skills for University Studies, 7.5 credits

English Writing and Presentation Skills for University Studies, 15 credits

Swedish for international students

The purpose of these courses is for students to acquire basic knowledge and skills in the Swedish language and to develop knowledge of Swedish society and Swedish culture.

Swedish Language

Swedish Language, Culture and Society I, 10 credits

Swedish Language, Culture and Society II, 10 credits

Swedish Language, Culture and Society III, 10 credits

Swedish Language, Culture and Society IV, 10 credits

Swedish for Exchange Students

Students register for courses and programmes via the International Office and for questions about the courses, please contact Maria Pihel

Swedish Language, Culture and Society 1A, 5 credits

Swedish Language, Culture and Society 1B, 5 credits

Lydia Viktorsson, Course coordinator

Anita Marttila, Student administrator

Supplementary education for foreign academics

Swedish for foreign faculty

Complementary education for foreign graduates (in Swedish)

Kompletterande utbildning för utländska akademiker, Individuell studieplan 120 credits (in Swedish)

Kompletterande utbildning för utländska akademiker, Individuell studieplan (translated as "Complementary education for foreign graduates, Individual study plan") is for you who have an academic degree from another country. The training suits you who want to continue working in your previous work area or find ways into a new work area. The idea with this education is that you should increase your opportunities for a qualified job by supplementing your foreign degree with theoretical courses and practice. The program is given in Swedish.

The program usually has a start every semester, but thas a break during the fall semester 2023 and resumes in spring 2024 again.

Previous syllabuses for Supplementary education for foreign graduates, Individual study plan

The course website will be reactivated in autumn 2023:

Complementary education for foreign graduates, Individual study plan, 120 credits

Det offentliga språket 7,5 credits (in Swedish)

Det offentliga språket (translated as "The public language") is given both as an independent course and included as an optional course within Complementary education for foreign graduates, Individual study plan. The course is given in Swedish.

Det offentliga språket 7.5 credits

Postgraduate education

CAKL serves the whole university and primarily offers postgraduate courses for all doctoral students at Malmö University, most of which are given in English.

PhD courses

Research

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

Academic specialists from all over the university meet to explore and design teaching based on academic principles. Ongoing research spans areas such as learning environments, professional development, widening participation, digital learning, challenge-based learning, academic literacy, and adult learning and inclusion. This work is assigned to, and organised by, centres for educational development, in collaboration with interdisciplinary research groups.

Contact person for research

Martin Stigmar - Professor

Research leader at CAKL

martin.stigmar@mau.se

040-665 78 84

Research publications

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Research seminars and conferences

CAKL's external seminar series in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

As a part of Malmö University's decision to invest in teaching and learning pedagogy in higher education, CAKL is arranging a seminar series, where everyone is welcome.

Take the chance to delve into the field of higher educational pedagogical research and to share your own research results. Discuss, with colleagues at Malmö University as well as external guests, future collaboration opportunities regarding research, conferences and applications.

Contact: Martin Stigmar, professor at CAKL

Dates for seminars spring 2023:

22 February 2023 at 14.30 - 16.00

Attempts at Changing With(in): On the making of sustainable and just cities with and within Swedish municipal organizations.

How are Swedish cities engaging with sustainable and just transitions? What kind of changes in views, practices and structures do these efforts entail? What is the role of social learning in these transformations? How can we, as researchers, support social learning and how can we, as teachers, prepare future professionals to engage in these transformations?

Anna Seravalli is an Associate Professor in Design at The School of Arts and Communication Malmö University.

Language: English

Location: Online via Zoom.

Event in Calendar for staff

28 March 2023 at 15.15 - 16.45

Dr Gareth Gingell is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medical Education, Dell Medical School, The University of Texas at Austin, USA.

Gareth’s seminar will focus on issues of race and power in medical education, with a particular focus on how race is portrayed and navigated in problem-based learning enviroments.

Language: English

Location: Online via Zoom.

Event in Calendar for staff

23 May 2023 at 15.15 - 16.45

A Systematic Review of Systematic Reviews on pandemic effects on the teaching profession in higher education

In this presentation we will share some findings from a systematic review of systematic reviews of how the university teachers’ profession has been impacted by the digital transformation during the pandemic. We will especially focus on professional practice and professional identities. The study is a part of the larger research project on the impact of the pandemic on university teachers' profession in hybrid learning environments.

Marie Leijon, Associate professor in Educational Science and educational developer at the Centre for Teaching and Learning, Malmö university.

David Rosenlund, Associate Professor at the institution of Society, Culture and Identity, Malmö university.

Language: English

Location: Online via Zoom.

Event in Calendar for staff

Registration

To registration

Programs and materials from previous seminars

CAKL's internal seminar series in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

Centre for teaching in learning (CAKL) holds an internal seminar series with three meetings per semester. Here are some examples of content:

Presenter: Natalia Auer, CAKL
Topic: Metacognition, comprehension processes and technology for reading onscreen.

Lärarlärdom

About the conference

The conference is open to teachers, education developers, librarians and others with an interest in matters of teaching & learning and quality enhancement in higher education. The conference is a collaboration between Blekinge Institute of Technology, Kristianstad University and Malmö University. We also welcome participants from Lärosäten Syd.

The host 2023 (August 16) is Malmö university. More information will be published soon.

Training Camp

The one-day conference Training Camp is an opportunity for teachers to get new ideas and inspiration for the coming school year and is therefore usually before the start of the semester in August. Each conference has a specific theme. Here are some examples of previous years' themes:

2021: Educating for Sustainability
2022: Make your teaching more accessible
2020: Inclusive digital introduction
2016: Film in teaching - pedagogy and MauPlay
2014: Forumspel / Ethics

2023's conference is 18 August. More information will be published soon.

Include Conference 2023

Welcome to Include Conference

About the conference

Due to too few registrations, the conference group is forced to postpone the event. It is of course very sad, but we are not canceling, but have decided that the symposium will be merged with the regular national Include conference next year.

New dates to book in the calendar are 26–28 April 2023, and this conference will also be held at Malmö University. Then, alongside the usual conference content, there will also be a "research track", where parts of what would have been presented in September will be included.

Malmö University together with the Include network organise a conference on widening participation under the theme IN-DURING-OUT.

Include is a national network that works with widening participation.The purpose of the network is to strengthen knowledge about broadened recruitment, throughput, diversity and equal treatment from implementation to evaluation.

More about Include (in Swedish)

To registration, call for papers and read more about the conference (in Swedish)

Research Topic

Pedagogy

Education/pedagogy concerns the study of pedagogical processes in different cultural and interpersonal contexts. The main objec...

Widening recruitment and widening participation

As part of its mission, CAKL cooperates with all other areas of the university in developing work with widening recruitment and widening participation, with a view to creating conditions for inclusive, participatory, lifelong learning. This involvement includes both courses and programmes as well as various other initiatives.

Partners and network

Partners

Kingston University

University of East London

URV, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona

Network

Nätverket Include

Swednet

Collaboration projects

Erasmus+-funded project: NEXUS

NEXUS is an Erasmus+ funded project designed to empower students with diverse backgrounds to explore the relationship between participatory digital tools and democracy. Furthermore, NEXUS strives to expand Service-Learning as a pedagogic approach for civic education in L2 courses at Higher education Institutions.

Contact

Financer

EU-Erasmus+

Project members

Collaborators

European Citizen Action Service (ECAS) – Belgium
Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) – Spain
Unione delle Università del Mediterraneo (UNIMED) – Italy
Knowledge Innovation Centre (KIC) – Malta
Institut za razvoj obrazovanja (IRO) – Croatia
Apis Institute – Slovenia

Time frame

September 1, 2019 – August 31, 2022

Faculty

Faculty of Education and Society

About the project

The NEXUS project aims to engage students in civic education so that they can contribute positively to their society and the global community. The main innovation of NEXUS is the design, development and implementation of an integrated approach to civic education and community engagement – aimed at empowering students to take an active role in society.

The objective of the NEXUS project is to allow students to develop skills and competences to enhance their civic engagement and evolve as informed citizens. Building on the idea that many opportunities for meaningful civic learning exist in online environments, NEXUS uses technologies that are familiar and appealing to digital natives. NEXUS combines expertise from academia, policy/research organisations, design and delivery of IT-services and operates in local, regional and national areas and networks.

The project will result in:

a MOOC on Civic education that will be developed for a diverse student group, focusing on Civic education micro-learning units;
a knowledge-sharing platform (building on open educational resources and practices) for civic educators.
service-learning guidelines enabling universities to support civic engagement within a diverse student group and work with wider communities.
an inventory of digital tools for citizenship education, together with a handbook for educators.