Innovation Pedagogics

Are you a university teacher and would you like to learn how to enhance innovative competencies among your students to prepare them and strengthen their learning? Are you a university teacher that would like to develop your own innovative skills as a teacher?

The course Innovation Pedagogics builds and focuses on teaching methods that will develop students’ innovative competences. The course takes you through an innovation process where you get the opportunity to create new ideas to your course, implement and evaluate them.

In order to be innovative, you have to deal with complexity and see things from new perspectives. Hence the interdisciplinary approach: You will meet and work together with teachers from different disciplines and universities. This will also extend your professional network.

Together with colleagues and the course leaders, you will explore respectively 1) what innovation can be, 2) how to address it in your courses and 3) how your students can develop their innovative competences and hereby strengthen their own academic discipline.

Content

We use the term ‘innovation’ in a broad sense. It entails the creative process of designing and implementing something new – e.g. a product, a service, a process or an organizational development. It addresses the importance of working with solutions, which have real value for someone. In this context ‘value’ can be social, cultural or economical.

Innovation Pedagogics will take you through an innovative and hands-on process where you create an innovative course unit or element for one of your own courses. Throughout the course, you will work in peer-groups and get the opportunity to observe and discuss innovative teaching. We will work on how to:

• Define innovation and entrepreneurship in the context of teaching.
• Plan course units or elements with teaching and assessment methods that develop students’ innovative competences.
• Set up and formulate learning objectives with focus on innovation and innovative competences.
• Facilitate students’ innovative learning processes in a disciplinary or interdisciplinary context which is discontinuous, complex, surprising, and social and where both the students and you as a teacher have to learn to allow for and deal with failure and mistakes.
• Use real life cases and projects in your teaching and act in an interdisciplinary context.

The Team

Academics teaching this course form an interdisciplinary group coming from the learning and didactic units at the Technical University of Denmark and University of Copenhagen:

• Pernille Hammar Andersson, Senior Excecutive Educational Officer, LearningLab DTU, Technical University of Denmark
• Camilla Rump, Associate Professor at the Department of Science Education, University of Copenhagen
• Rikke Kortsen Okholm, Innovation Consultant at the Department of Science Education, University of Copenhagen
• Trine Middelbo, Senior Project Manager at Copenhagen Innovation and Entrepreneurship Lab (CIEL)