Course design in an

international partnership

context

Natalie JellinekEducational Development OfficerOctober 2013

Thematic courses:

Thematic subject courses that are integrated in ongoing collaborations between SLU research schools, capacity building programs or major research programs.

WHY!?

Who IS your partner?

What type of partnerships?

Mutually-beneficial partnerships?

Needs assessment?

Shared vision? Ownership?

Purpose? Common goals?

Working methods?

Roles & Responsibilities?

Sustainable?

Barriers & challenges?

“The sum of our partnership

equals something greater”

Higher education is of critical importance to the long-term development

of knowledge societies.

Knowledge generation and innovation to meet both local and global

societal and economic needs.

”The educational systems in different kinds of societies in

the world have been, and are, very different in

organization and content. They are different because the

societies providing the education are different, and

because education, whether it be formal or informal, has a

purpose. That purpose is to transmit from one generation

to the next the accumulated wisdom and knowledge of

society, and to prepare the young people for their future

membership of the society and their active participation in

its maintenance and development.” (p.268)

Julius Nyerere, former President of Tanzania

Freedom and Socialism

Course design

alignment = arrangement

constructivism = learning as a process

(mediated by social environments, social

constructivism)

* Students construct their knowledge by what they do

in the course

* The teacher must make sure the learning outcomes,

learning activities, and assessment are aligned in a

clear and logical way.

Constructive alignment

Intended Learning

Outomes

Teaching &

Learning

Activities

Assessment

Biggs, 2003

Constructive

alignment

Kummel

PhD education in Sweden:

Objectives

Knowledge and understanding

For a degree of Doctor research students must

- demonstrate broad knowledge in and a systematic

understanding of the field of research, together with deep

and up-to-date specialist knowledge in a defined part of

the field of research;

- demonstrate familiarity with scholarly methods in general

and with methods in the specific field of research in

particular.

PhD education in Sweden:

Objectives

Skills and abilities

- demonstrate an ability to engage in scholarly analysis

and synthesis and in independent, critical examination

and assessment of new and complex phenomena, issues

and situations;

- demonstrate an ability to identify and formulate

issues, critically, independently and creatively, and

proceeding with scientific precision, and to plan

and, using appropriate methods, conduct research and

other advanced tasks within specified time limits, and to

scrutinise and evaluate such work;

Skills and abilities

- demonstrate, in a dissertation, their ability to make a

substantial contribution to the development of knowledge

by their own research;

- demonstrate an ability to present and discuss research

and research results with authority, in dialogue with the

scholarly community and society in general, orally and in

writing, in both national and international contexts; -

demonstrate an ability to identify their need of further

knowledge;

- demonstrate a potential to contribute to the development

of society and support other people’s learning, both in the

field of research and education and in other advanced

professional contexts.

PhD education in Sweden:

Objectives

Judgment and approach

For a degree of Doctor research students must

- demonstrate intellectual independence and scholarly

integrity and an ability to make ethical assessments

relating to research;

- demonstrate deeper insight into the potential and

limitations of scholarship, its role in society and people’s

responsibility for how it is used.

University of Botswana:

Mission & Vision

a. To be a leading academic centre of excellence in Africa

and the world

b. To improve economic and social conditions for the nation

while advancing itself as a distinctively African university

with a regional and international outlook.

Thank you!

natalie.jellinek@slu.se