Workshop @ Teaching and Education Day 2019
I will host a workshop at the annual Teaching and Education Day by the Faculty of Science and Technology at Umeå University on August 20, 2019. My workshop, simply called Teaching Sabbatical, will adress going abroad to teach. I will talk about my experiences of leaving the chores at Umeå University behind and moving abroad […]
Seminar on exchange studies at NTU
On February 21, 2019, I will hold a short presentation on selecting NTU as host when doing exchange studies abroad at a seminar on foreign exchange. This is a seminar for the students at the Faculty of Science and Technology, Umeå University. I will try to give the students some insights into how it is […]
Seminar on STINT Teaching Sabbatical, NTU and Singapore @ TFE
On ThurdayI will hold a seminar on my time as a STINT Teaching Sabbatical Fellow at NTU and our time in Singapore at my home department, Applied Physics and Electronics (TFE). I will talk about teaching large groups, having state of the art technology, purposely built facilities, 28C+ all the time, never cook a single […]
Feed forward
Almost a year ago, I was walking slowly from the Stockholm Central Station to the STINT office early in the morning of a sunny, but cold, February day. I was filled with expectations and happy to be selected as a 2018 STINT Fellow. Getting the experience from the previous STINT Fellows was a big thing […]
Final report – STINT Teaching Sabbatical
As part of being a STINT Fellow for the last five months, I have written a report on my visit and stay at Nanyang Technological University under the STINT Teaching Sabbatical Program during 2018. This report is largely based on information that has been published in this blog during last semester. But as a formality […]
Seminar on STINT Teaching Sabbatical @ Umeå University
On January 30, I will take part of a lunch seminar on the STINT Teaching Sabbatical program arranged by the International Office and Centre for Educational Development at Umeå University. Both Karin, program coordinator at STINT, and Katarina, STINT Fellow at Ohio State University, will also take part of the meeting During this meeting I […]
Back in Sweden
Exactly a year ago the adventure started, December 22, that was the day I got the notice that STINT had awarded me with the prestigious STINT Teaching Sabbatical Scholarship and the whole family was onboard to move to Singapore for me to work at NTU. Yesterday, we came back home so this has been a […]
Time to say: See you Singapore!
The last 140 days here in Singapore have been amazing. Hectic, intense, sleep deprived and probably some of the best so far in our lives. It has been great to share the experience with my family, Sofia and Lovisa. But also friends and family that came over to visit us – my relative Helena, my […]
Campus food
NTU say that they are the foodiest campus in the world with 150 food outlets and 177 vending machines. I have not counted them, but with so many different canteens it is probably true. The food at campus is great! Really great! And cheap! Eating out in Singapore (now we are talking about Hawker Centers […]
Conventions, Fairs and Conferences
Singapore is a country in one big city in an amazing garden, and there is a lot going on at the time. I wish I could spend all my time just visiting all the Conventions, Conferences and Fairs that are constantly popping up at the Conventions centers and Expos throughout Singapore. Due to the location of […]
Relaxing in Perth
Last week in Perth has not only been work, but also an opportunity to visit friends. Of course we have been staying at Helen’s place, but we also got to hang out with Alwyn for a couple of days, met with John and Verity, had a few beers at Little Creatures in Fremantle, walked along […]
Visitors from Sweden
When we decided to move to Singapore, we extended an invite for our family and friends to visit. It was amazing that so many passed by during this time! Helena, a relieve of ours, was the first to come over for a visit. She stopped in Singapore for three days on her way to Cambodia […]
End of Semester
So we come to the end of the first semester of AY2018/2019 and my part of work at NTU is pretty much done. I just have some small things left before handing back my access card and the keys to my room. Right now it’s pretty much empty corridors here at the School of Computer […]
Presentations and research meetings @ ECU
During the last week, I have been in Perth, Australia, for a short visit to Edith Cowan University (ECU). I was invited as a Visiting Scholar at the School of Business and Law under the University’s Visiting Scholars Program at the Centre for Work and Organisational Performance (CWOP). I have had the opportunity to collaborate with […]
Physics for Computing
One of my main tasks that we decided on before coming to Singapore, was that I would take part of planning and executing a new course called Physics for Computing. This is a course that had been in planning for years, but didn’t become reality until 2018. The idea is that the students in computer […]
Leaving for Perth
Tonight we are taking the Singapore Airlines red-eye down to Perth to meet up with my friends at Edith Cowan University, especially Helen. During the following week, I will have a presentation on the Digitization of Business and a seminar on my insights from going on teaching sabbatical. I will also meet with my research […]
Live Lecture Recording
At NTU almost all lectures are automatically (as from the teachers side) recorded live and uploaded onto the educational platform (in their case NTULearn, which is an implementation of Blackboard). This makes it unnecessary for the students to attend the lectures if they do not want to since recordings of all lectures are available online […]
Swedish Dinner Tuesdays
This year we are three STINT Fellows at NTU – Marcia, Lena and me. Lena brought her daughter Hanna that turned one year old a month ago and her mother on the trip. Marcia’s husband came over to visit two times during the semester. Wonderful people and we bonded. Lena and Sofia took Hanna and […]
Visiting Scholar @ ECU
It is a honor to be invited as a Visiting Scholar at the School of Business and Law at Edith Cowan University (ECU), under the University’s Visiting Scholars Program through the Centre for Work and Organisational Performance (CWOP). I will go down to Perth, Australia, during a week in the beginning of December this year. During this time […]
Back to the recording studio!
Yesterday, I was, once again, back in the recording studio. This time to record short video lectures introducing Classical Mechanics. These videos are, in other words, just recordings of the LT lectures that had in the beginning of the course Physics for Computing. I had to redo the lectures a little bit to fit the […]
Visit to National University of Singapore (NUS)
Today, I had the privilege to visit National University of Singapore (NUS) together with my STINT Fellow Marcia from NIE and our host at NTU, Sophia. This is, together with NTU, one of the two large education and research institutions in Singapore. Historically NUS have been the better ranked University, but in the newer rankings the […]
The Singaporean
This is the time when our baby girl, Lovisa, has, officially, been living longer in Singapore than in Sweden. It is a little strange when you think about it, but really cool. So, from now on, we do officially denote her as the Singaporean until she becomes “Swedish” again. Even though she won’t have any […]
Teaching large groups: Tutorials
When having really large groups in the lecture theaters, there is a need for teacher-students contact. This is what the tutorials are for. During my time at NTU I had tutorials on the course Human Computer Interaction several times a week. Each group have about one tutorial every other week. The tutorials are in the […]
Article by Faculty of Science and Technology
My home faculty at Umeå University, Faculty of Science and Technology, just published an article about my stay, with my family, in Singapore and my teaching at NTU. In this article I give my view on teaching large groups at a top University in another part of the world. The article is written in Swedish […]
Visitors from University West
Yesterday we had the honor to get some Swedish visitors at NTU. The Vice Chancellor of University West with his delegation came for a short visit at both NIE and NTU. We had lunch at the NIE food court, gave them the grand tour of NTU and discussed differences in teaching and resources between Singapore and […]
Hardware Projects Lab
All the laboratory work on the course Physics for Computing is conducted in the Hardware Physics Laboratory on the first floor of the N4 wing at North Spine. Since I spent some serious time in this lab it is worth mentioning. This lab is huge (compared to similar labs at Umeå University) and is based […]
Exploring Hong Kong
After the seminar, we moved down to Kowloon and stayed in Hong Kong over the weekend to experience some culture while here. A couple of years I did a stop-over in Hong Kong on my way back from Chengdu. Now I’m back, and this time the family could join. Hong Kong is a vibrant city […]
STINT seminar in Hong Kong
On October 25, 2018, we had the STINT Fellows Mid-term Workshop with all the nine current STINT Fellows located in Asia and the STINT management from Sweden. The seminar had been in Singapore for the last couple of years. However, this year we had the great opportunity to travel to Hong Kong and meet up […]
Leaving for Hong Kong
This year there are nine STINT Fellows at different Universities, and countries, in Asia. To have the opportunity to meet the other fellows and be able to share experiences during the teaching sabbatical, STINT arranges seminaries in each part of the world. This year’s seminar with the other STINT fellows in Asia will be in […]
Teaching large groups: Lecturing
Designing educational experiences is something that I really enjoy. This goes for everything from workshops and tutorials to Lecturing. Here at NTU, I have been teaching larger groups than I am used to from back home in Sweden. My largest group in Sweden is during the first unit for the new MSc in Interaction Technology and […]
Recess week, a.k.a. vacation week
Last week was recess week at NTU. For most students this equals vacation week. Nonetheless, there are no lectures at the University during this week. Having a fixed schedule during the teaching weeks, this was the perfect time to take a short trip and, even though just for a few days, have some vacation. Singapore […]
eLearning Week
NTU have had a vision, for some time now, on working towards Flipped Classroom with having most of their material online and using the student-professor time for actually working with the material instead of delivering it. I believe that flipped Classroom is great. However, I do not believe that the traditional lecture is a waste […]
Mid-Autumn Festival
The Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional harvest festival and still one of the most celebrated festivities among Chinese people. It is a festival of light and should be enjoyed during night. (as a lot of things in Singapore). It is usually in late September or Early October and during 2018 it is September 24 that […]
The Interactive Recording Studio (IReS)
I had the privilege to be in charge of the content for the eLearning week on one of the courses that I’m teaching here at NTU. This meaning that the content had to be recorded and put up online as eLearning material. This was a huge opportunity to learn about the recording facilities at NTU. […]
Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix
So this is it, finally here! The 10 Formula 1 teams and 20 drivers just arriving from Italy and all want to drive the fastest during a little more than an hour and a half in the man-made lights of Marina Bay Street Circuit. Ever since the very first Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix in 2008, it […]
This is Grand Prix Season Singapore!
It’s easy – 7-16 September is denoted Grand Prix Season in Singapore. In other words, along with the rest of Singapore, I’m preparing for the Formula 1 Singapore GP! Even though the highlight of this week-long fest is the 2018 Formula 1 Singapore Airlines Singapore Grand Prix (Oh yeah, that’s a long name), there are […]
The termite infestation
There were just some minor problems when moving in to the apartment at NTU, a broken tap in the kitchen that sprayed water all over the wall when used and some termites living in the wooden frame of the bed in the spare bedroom that we found after a couple of weeks. Searching around the […]
Sentosa Sandsation
As part of the Grand Prix Season Singapore 2018, Sandsation at Siloso Beach on Sentosa had a Marvel theme this year. This is Southeast Asia’s biggest sand festival. No better than to hang out at the beach and enjoy some sand sculptures at the same time! As local residents, we even had the pleasure to enjoy […]
Faculty Housing @ NTU
Going to Singapore with an infant, one thing that needed to be sorted out before going to Singapore was the housing situation. Since both I and my partner had been to Singapore before, we decided on staying either closer to the city center or closer to the NTU Campus. After some discussions it was clear […]
Singapore Night Festival
Between 17-25 August 2018, the Singapore Night Festival took place on the streets in-between Bugis, Orchard Road and Chijmes. There is something special with every city when night falls. That is when these metropolitan cities around the world really show their true self. It is during this time the city is shown in its full […]
TEDxNTU
Today, NTU hosted a TEDx event – TEDxNTU. This event was free for students, staff and the public. This is how you tell ideas worth spreading – Free and in a great package! I have wanted join a TEDx event for a long time, but there has always been something that stood in the way… […]
Visa application
To work or stay for a longer period of time in Singapore you, of course, need a visa. The visa application to work in Singapore is fairly straight forward (if you have been in the “getting visa business” before) and having NTU as a sponsor made the process really easy. However, since I was going […]
Congratulations Singapore, it’s your birthday!
Today, August 9, is a public holiday here in Singapore and the National Day celebration is all over the island. We asked around a little bit and decided to join the celebration by going downtown, walking along Singapore River and watching the celebration and the fireworks around Marina Bay. So, congratulations Singapore on your 53rd […]
At the office @ NTU
Yesterday I got the key to my office, that has undergone some renovation during the last couple of days. I have also started to get a better grasp of my (fixed) teaching duties during the semester. I will have responsibility for two topics on the course Physics for Computing – Mechanics and Prototyping. One part […]
Hello Singapore!
Yesterday evening we arrived in Singapore and got the key to our new apartment at Nanyang Heights on the NTU Campus. It was a fairly smooth trip from Umeå to Singapore. Lovisa took her first couple of flights with ease and slept through, when not eating or charming the flight attendants. Liquid soap, laundry detergent, […]
Moving to Singapore
There is a lot to think about when moving abroad with the whole family. But after months of planning, applying for visas, looking for housing, everything is in place and now we’re (almost) packed – two bags, a baby car seat in a cardboard box, a pram and a lot of carry-on. We booked the […]
Preparing lectures
Even though there have been some major negative and positive bumps on the planning route, that really has nothing to do with our stay in Singapore, I have now started to prepare some new lectures for the course Physics for Computing. This course is going to be the start of my co-teaching experience at NTU […]
SCSE @ NTU – Top ranked
According to the recent US News Education Ranking, NTU’s Computer Science, as subject, is ranked no. 3 in the World, before MIT, Stanford, Harvard and Berkeley. I must say that I feel a bit honoured to be chosen to work at the School of Computer Science and Engineering (SCSE) @ NTU next semester. It will be a […]
Tickets to Singapore GP
Yesterday I booked some tickets to the No. 1 event in Singapore during September, the Singapore Formula 1 Grand Prix at Marina Bay Street Circuit. I have been to Singapore many times before and ever since the Singapore GP started a decade ago, I have always wanted to go there in September and experience Formula […]
Family complete
We have been waiting for almost 9 month now and early Sunday morning our daughter was born. A little early, but just as wonderful! Now the family is complete and it feels like we can start the final preparations with flights and visas. Slowly getting to know her, we feel that Lovisa is a tough […]
Seminar on STINT Teaching Sabbatical @ Umeå University
On April 23, 2018, Umeå University arranged a seminar for teachers at the university on the STINT Teaching Sabbatical. Last year I was sitting in the audience and right there decided to apply for a spot. This year I was one of the speakers. Together with Katarina from the Centre for Educational Development at Umeå […]
Feeling of Singapore
The first couple of days of the recce trip, I was staying on the NTU Campus. But to be able to explore Singapore and fix some important matters regarding the Visa, I moved downtown for the last two nights. After passing by Singapore quite a few times now, I have started to like the area […]
Meetings and exploring the NTU campus
During the first couple of days of my recce trip, I choose to stay on the NTU Campus. This was a great opportunity to get a first glimpse of how I would be to live on campus during fall (ok, so they don’t really have seasons in Singapore, so let’s just call it the first […]
Leaving for Singapore on my recce trip
In mid-February I booked a week-long trip Singapore between March 11 – March 16. There are currently a lot of airlines flying to Singapore from Europe, including Singapore Airlines, Emirates, Qatar, British Airways, Lufthansa, Finnair, Turkish Airlines and many more, and the prices are quite fair. Having experience from most of these airlines, I decided […]
Seminar in Stockholm
On February 8, 2018, we had a seminar at STINTs office in the center of Stockholm with all the new STINT Teaching Sabbatical Fellows of 2018 and most of last year’s fellows. This was a great opportunity to discuss and listen to some of the former fellows’ experience of being part of the program, both those that […]
Teaching at NTU
Most of the courses at NTU already are assigned by the time I got in touch with them regarding the sabbatical. This meaning that the courses that had the best fit with what I teach in Sweden and where I could benefit the most from teaching at NTU already had been assigned. This, however, was […]
First contact with NTU
During the beginning of January I contacted my faculty and administrative contacts at NTU to sort out how to begin the Visa procedure, get some support regarding the housing situation and to set the dates for my planning trip during spring. Since my partner was pregnant at the time, she decided not to come on the […]
Notice of acceptance
Just before Christmas 2017, I got this great news that my application to the STINT Teaching Sabbatical program had been accepted and I was moving to Singapore during fall 2018 with my family. I had been accepted as a STINT Fellow at Nanyang Technological University (NTU). This teaching sabbatical is a national scholarship by the Swedish […]
