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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]