Absalon is your channel to provide students with easy access to course materials. Further, Absalon features options to create learning activities that your students can engage with during their preparation for class, on campus, and in remote teaching. In this workshop you will learn 10 features in Absalon, that you didn't know you could do.

In this workshop, we will explore:

· Quick tips that will make your way around Absalon easier

· How to personalize your notifications and Dashboard

· Using tools for online collaboration integrated in Absalon e.g. Microsoft Onedrive and Padlet

· How to get an overview of your students’ assignments and give feedback using Speedgrader

· Using video quizzes in Kaltura

Basic knowledge of Absalon is required to participate in the workshop. We will be doing exercises in Absalon, so please bring your own laptop.

Between 6 – 20 participants

Workshop organisers: Minja Nathalie Nørregaard from the IT Learning Center, SCIENCE and Ulla Blomhøj from the Centre for Online and Blended Learning, SUND

Innovation refers to the process of developing and implementing new ideas in ways where they create value for someone. To a large extent this is exactly what most universities aim at doing today: Using (and producing) knowledge to solve concrete challenges.

Overall, methods and tools from IE aim at supporting students moving their projects or ideas forward, despite a great deal of uncertainty. They help students derive valuable feedback from (potential) users and stakeholders, manage complex processes, and use their competencies in a mindful manner. Working with IE holds a great potential for high engagement. But it also means that you as a teacher must let go of some control and take on a more facilitating role.

In this workshop you will be presented with different innovative tools and methods and some practical and didactic reflections that are useful to do when you plan your course. The aim is to inspire and give you an understanding of which approaches works best under which circumstances and what they demand of you as a teacher. Finally, you will have time to work on implementing one or two tools/methods in your own course.

Between 8 and 18 participants.

Location: KU Lighthouse, Tagensvej 16A, Copenhagen N (info about specific room will be available upon arrival).

Workshop organizer: Maria Ovesen, PhD, special advisor from Faculty of Social Sciences/KU Lighthouse

How do you construct, and quality assure multiple-choice items to internationally recognized standards?

The multiple-choice question (MCQ) format is by now an old and widely used assessment format internationally. As a format it complements the other written test formats, such as the essay or short-answer formats, and its possibilities is therefore worth knowing about for university teachers. With the advancement of educational technology, the MCQ format most likely plays an increasing role in Danish universities too, not least in supporting learning or assessment of large student groups. In this workshop, we will cover evidence-based practices which support the construction of MCQ items of high quality and validity, as well as practices which may help teachers to quality assure their teaching or their exams based on MCQ tests results.

Advance preparation

Please, bring along 1-2 MCQ items to the workshop, which you have already used in your teaching or exams. If you have no MCQ item in stock, please consider a subject, an assignment, or a case, that you would like to transform into a MCQ item in the workshop. If you have relevant stimulus material, which could be useful in MC question construction, such as a graph, a picture, a text, a video etc., do bring it with you, and be prepared to share such material with the other workshop participants.

Between 5 – 25 participants.

Workshop organizer: Lotte O’Neill from the Centre for Teaching and Learning, University of Southern Denmark

In this workshop, you will be actively engaged in a discussion and reorganisation of your ideas about practical work in your teaching. What is the epistemological stature of practical work in science? What constitutes a good practical work (or bad)? Which pedagogical approaches should be used when you teach in this format? What are the challenges of teaching practical science and how to overcome them? Findings from recent empirical research and contemporary theories will be used to guide our work. We will explore students’ experiences, not only of cognitive nature, but also affective and conative. What draws them to science, to your classrooms and labs? To out there in the field? What keeps them at bay? What makes them run away? We will also explore teachers’ perspectives about whether we should (still) invest millions of bucks on this notoriously expensive format of education. Or does it always have to be a rip-off?

Questions from your own contexts will be brought onto the table for collective reflection and cross pollination.

Between 5 – 15 participants.

Workshop organiser: Hendra Y. Agustian from the Department of Science Education, SCIENCE

Students attending higher education are growing increasingly diverse in parameters such as social background, gender and race, as well as students with different disciplinary backgrounds enrolling in cross disciplinary courses, etc. Teachers often struggle to build on this diversity of experiences and expectations, and there is a risk that some students are excluded or unable to engage.

In this workshop we will explore and discuss how students with various backgrounds navigate different learning settings, where common problems arise, and what teaching techniques can mitigate these issues.

The main learning objective is for teachers to work with tools that can make their teaching more equitable. In the workshop we will build on existing research on diversity in the classroom and we will present different tools that teachers can work with. We will discuss how different tools might work differently across different courses and teaching settings. By the end of the course each participants will have worked with at least two tools that they can try out in their own teaching.

Between 8 and 20 participants

Workshop organisers: Henriette Tolstrup Holmegaard and Adrienne Traxler from the Department of Science Education, SCIENCE