Pedagogical development project
In this module, you will work on a pedagogical development project that?you design and implement in collaboration with others at your unit, UiO, or beyond.
Why choose this module?
In this module, you have the opportunity to delve into a university pedagogical practice, themes, or questions about which you are particularly curious.
Your work may arise from your experiences with teaching and learning, supervision, educational leadership, or from topics you heard about in electives and the foundation module.
Tone Dyrdal Solbrekke is one of the four module leaders. Please visit the bottom of the page for the full overview over the module leaders.
"In this module your pedagogical development project is central, we are here to create opportunities for you to receive feedback from us and other participants, and to help you navigate the complexities of pedagogical innovation."
In this module, you have the opportunity to
- Reflect on your development as a university teacher, supervisor or educational leader? and plan the steps you will take to further improve your teaching and students’ learning.
- Collaborate with other colleagues and if applicable students at your local unit to design and work on the pedagogical practice, theme, or question you have identified.
- Give and receive feedback on your project from peers and module leaders.
- Get support from a contact person at your unit, and our colleagues from University of Oslo Library.
- Read relevant pedagogical research in your discipline and translate what you learn to your development project and ultimately to your teaching.
- Use the SoTL criteria to reflect on your project and your own development and formation as a teacher.
- Make public what you learned from your development work.
Examples of pedagogical development projects can be
- Co-design or co-redesign new learning activities and or forms of assessment.
- Co-integrate practices to improve students' ability for academic writing in a course or program design.
- Collaborate to strengthen links between research and education.
- Co-develop a universally designed and inclusive learning environment?.
- Co-create spaces for students and academics to meet informally and engage about education, research, careers.
- Co-design and develop systematic work in peer-mentoring groups (kollegaveiledning) on education.
- Involve students as partners in planning, teaching, teaching development, student evaluation, research or as learning assistants in the subject/program.
- Co-develop interdisciplinary collaborations in education.
Contact persons for Pedagogical development project
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Tone Lynn W?rstad
JUS
Simen Kopperud
OD
Michelle Storakeren
UV
Tone Gregers
MN
Junaid Mumtaz Khan
SV
Baoxin?Long
HF
Espen Johnsen B?e
HF
Marianne Bjelland Kartzow
TF
Jessica L?nn-Stensrud
MED
Eystein Gullbekk
UB
Bj?rn Vidar Johansen
KHM
Tone Irene Brekke
STK
Organisation of the module
Language
In plenary sessions and on the Canvas site, the language is English. In group work, you can choose between a Scandinavian language and English. You can write your assignments in a Scandinavian language or in English.
Requirements for participation
Approval of the module completion is contingent on 80% attendance in plenary sessions, completing all assignments and one oral presentation of your project in small groups.
Form of assessment
Formative assessment takes place continuously in response groups and from the module leaders. Final approval, as a summative assessment, is based on the presentation of the project and reflection on your own development at the 4th session.
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Practical Information
- Participants: Academic staff at the University of Oslo.
- Module scope: 50 hours
- Admission requirements
- ?Foundation module in English or Grunnmodul in Norwegian?must be completed at the start of the Pedagogical development project.
- Your development project needs to address teaching and learning (education) in your local unit or across programmes and institutions? and include collaboration with colleagues (e.g. administrators, leaders, students, or other academics) and approved by the module leaders.
- Approval of the project will be based on your application through EVUweb, where you will be asked to describe briefly (in 200-500 words) your?initial intentions?for the development project, including
- What do you plan to do and why?
- With whom are you planning to collaborate and why??If you plan to collaborate with another applicant, please let us know who.
- What is your initial timeline?
- Describe with whom you have discussed your project in your department or faculty.?
- Admission to the module depends on the feasibility of your project. Registration for the module in fall 2026 is open from March 19th, 2026, and close on May 20th, 2026.
- For administrative questions, please contact Paola L?vland.
Module dates spring 2026
Mandatory sessions
- February 9th 12.15 PM–3.15 PM: First plenary session.?LINKEN, Georg Sverdrups hus
- March 2nd 12.15 PM–3.15 PM: Second plenary session.?LINKEN, Georg Sverdrups hus
- March 24th 12.15 AM–3.15 PM: Third plenary session.?LINKEN, Georg Sverdrups hus
- May 12th 9.00 AM–4 PM*: Project presentations.?LINKEN, Georg Sverdrups hus?
*9-12 or 13-16? Participants are divided across the morning and afternoon session ?
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Module dates h?st 2026
Mandatory sessions
Dates will be published soon
- September 10th 12.15 PM–3.15 PM: First plenary session.?LINKEN, Georg Sverdrups hus
- October 15th 12.15 PM–3.15 PM: Second plenary session.?LINKEN, Georg Sverdrups hus
- November 11th 12.15 AM–3.15 PM: Third plenary session.?LINKEN, Georg Sverdrups hus
- November 25th 9.00 AM–4 PM*: Project presentations.?LINKEN, Georg Sverdrups hus?
*9-12 or 13-16? Participants are divided across the morning and afternoon session ?
Application information
Fall 2026
Module Leaders
Tone Dyrdal Solbrekke
Kjetil Horn Hogstad
Mary Preston Sutphen
Hannah Mülder
Leila Ferguson
