3 June 2024

COBL Summer School for teachers

Programme

Join your colleagues for an inspiring journey into AI, diversity, sustainability, and active learning at COBL Summer School 2024 for teachers at SUND. Explore innovative tools and strategies to enhance your teaching and student engagement.

AI
TUESDAY, 13 AUG: AI AND THE FUTURE OF EDUCATION

AI is becoming increasingly vital in today's digital and rapidly evolving educational landscape. It is essential for educators to prepare students for an AI-driven future, emphasizing the need to understand its capabilities and limitations. You will discuss the implications for our education at SUND as well as get hands-on experiences with new tools. The aim is to equip educators with practical skills and make room for reflection.

08:45 Grab a coffee or tea and find your seat
09:00 Welcome to the Summer School - Day 1
Helle Lottrup Halkjær Rhode (Centre for Online and Blended Learning, UCPH)
09:10 AI at UCPH
Opening speech by Prorector for Education Kristian Lauta
09:30 Navigating generative AI - guidelines and rules at UCPH
Senior Consultant Ruth Horak (US Digital, Education and Students, UCPH) will present the landscape of AI technology at UCPH and provide the latest updates on rules and guidelines on the use of generative AI in education.
10:00 AI and exams - what does it mean for teaching and exams when AI is allowed?
Associate professor Henriette Langstrup (Dept. of Public Health, UCPH) is Head of Studies for the study programme Health Informatics. She will share her experiences with opening the possibility to use AI and the consequences for teaching and exams.
10:40 AI – a game changer? The student view on the use of generative AI in education.
In this panel discussion “Anne og monopolet”, students from several study programmes at SUND will share their views, worries and suggestions based on teachers’ dilemmas. Moderated by Anne Kirkegaard (COBL).

11:15

Using AI in the classroom
From generating multiple choice questions to creating custom chatbots. Get inspired by your colleagues.

  • Associate professor Martin Kongsbak-Wismann and Prof. Jan Pravsgaard (Dept. of Immunology and Microbiology) share their experiences with using GAI for generating MCQ questions for medical students.
  • Associate professor Dan Wolf Meyrowitsch (Dept. of Public Health) will share how he uses custom chatbots in his teaching.

12:30

Join lunch with your colleagues at the Faculty Club (16.6.16)

13:30 Thank you for your interest and contributions (and see you tomorrow?!)

Diversity and inclusion

WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG: ENHANCE LEARNING THROUGH DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION

Students learn better in environments that embrace and respect the diversity of their needs, backgrounds, experiences, and identities. We will explore ways to foster an inclusive learning environment for a diverse group of students. You will get hands-on experience with digital tools that can enrich the learning experience for everyone.

08:45 Grab a coffee or tea and find your seat
09:00 Welcome to the Summer School - Day 2
Helle Lottrup Halkjær Rhode (Centre for Online and Blended Learning, UCPH)
09:10 Implementing diversity and inclusion in your teaching
Senior Executive Advisor Janne Sørensen from the Danish Research Centre for Migration, Ethnicity and Health (Dept. of Public Health) will showcase real-life dilemmas of diversity and inclusion – and ways to accommodate them in your classroom.
09:30 What engages the students and how do we prepare them for a diverse clinical setting?
MD & PhD student Maja Bruhn Kristiansen from the Competence Centre for Transcultural Psychiatry will present their project – how to implement inclusion in the medical curriculum. The project is supported by the Dept. of Clinical Medicine’s funds to increase quality in education.
09:50 The student view
TBA
10:45 Turning dilemma into opportunity – how to navigate differences in academic levels and needs.
Nicole Schmitt (Dept. of Biomedical Sciences and Centre for Online and Blended Learning) will introduce how creating a safe learning environment can increase learning outcomes.
11:00 Digital tools that can help you embrace diversity in your teaching activities.
We will introduce you to a variety of tools that you can implement in your own teaching activities and/or course rooms to embrace diversity. These include tools, that get students to participate actively, embrace right and wrong answers with appropriate feedback and use AI as a study buddy.
11:15 From inspiration to implementation – get a grip on the tools.
Select one or more of the tools we introduced and try it out for yourself. You can work on your own course, or you can try it on generic cases, which we have prepared beforehand.
12:00 Sharing experiences and impressions in plenum
12:30 Join lunch with your colleagues at the Faculty Club (16.6.16)
13:30 Thank you for your interest and contributions (and see you tomorrow?!)

Sustainability

THURSDAY, 15 AUG: SUSTAINABILITY. TIRED OF TALKING ABOUT HOW IMPORTANT IT IS? LET’S EXPLORE WHAT WE CAN DO.

Join us for a day dedicated to exploring integration of sustainability into our study programs. You will hear inspiring presentations and see concrete examples of innovative solutions. You will also work with your own teaching and get inspiration through colleagues for better sustainable teaching.

08:45 Grab a coffee or tea and find your seat
09:00 Welcome to the Summer School - Day 3
Helle Lottrup Halkjær Rhode (Centre for Online and Blended Learning, UCPH)
09:10 Sustainability at SUND
Opening speech by Vice Dean for Education, Jørgen Kurtzhals
09:20 Sustainability in university teaching
Prof. Katherine Richardson (GLOBE) will guide us through the opportunities how students can engage in sustainability science and how teachers can implement sustainability in their teaching.
09:45 The student perspective – action now!
Helena Hedegaard Udsen, medical student and member of SUND’s working group on sustainability in education will share the students’ views and call for action.

10:10

4 x INSPIRATION:

– Implementing sustainability in clinical teaching and practice
Svava Birgisdottir Egeholm from the Capital Region will share her experiences with making an e-learning course that provide hospital employees with knowledge and skills so that they can contribute to a green transition.

– Minimize the use of animals in teaching
Axel Kornerup (Dept. of Veterinary and Animal Sciences) will share how you could reduce the use of animals and get compliant with the 3R guiding principles for more ethical use of animals in our courses. 
– Facilitate innovation and sustainability sessions for students without being a sustainability expert.
Nina Breer Brocks (Copenhagen Health Innovation, Capital Region)
– Implementing sustainability in courses and study programmes
Henrik Hansen is Head of Studies for the programme Biomedical Laboratory Science at the University College Copenhagen. He will share how reflections on sustainability became an integral part in all project reports and theses in their education.
11:30 Group work – Make an actionable plan for your own teaching
12:30 Join lunch with your colleagues at the Faculty Club (16.6.16)
13:30 Thank you for your interest and contributions (and see you tomorrow?!)

Active learning

FRIDAY, 16 AUG: ACTIVE LEARNING

In this session, you set your own learning goals! We will focus on your own teaching – let’s dig into specific challenges, wishes and ambitions and get hands-on experience on educational technologies that can help make learning more interactive, personalized, and effective.

08:45 Grab a coffee or tea and find your seat
09:00 Welcome to the Summer School - Day 4
Helle Lottrup Halkjær Rhode (Centre for Online and Blended Learning, UCPH)
09:10 Work with your own didactic challenges or interests in a structured way.
In this session, your COBL colleagues will facilitate the journey from specific didactical challenges to solutions that foster engaging teaching formats and learning communities – and importantly, suit your personal teaching style.
You can work on your own teaching activity, course, or you can try it on generic cases, which we prepare beforehand.

10:40

PARALLEL SESSIONS:

Track 1 – Feedback comes in many flavors – try yourself 

  • Learning consultants from COBL will facilitate a hand-on session where you learn how you can utilize quizzes for formative or summative feedback. 
  • Assistant prof. Sara Solbak (Dept. for Drug Design and Pharmacology) will demonstrate how she implemented peer-feedback into her course room using the digital tool FeedbackFruits 

Track 2 – Learning design comes in many flavors – try yourself 

  • Associate professors Pernille Tveden-Nyborg and Dorte Bratbo Sørensen (Dept. of Veterinary and Animal Sciences) will share how they designed a whole learning universe in which they replaced traditional teaching with gamification elements and cases in the fictional town of Mørkeberg to prepare students for their real life as veterinarians. 
  • Learning consultants from COBL will facilitate a hand-on session where you learn tricks how you utilize structured learning design approaches to transform a lesson into a more engaging learning activity, no matter if it’s a 45-minute session, a course – or an island... 
12:00 Sharing experiences and impressions in plenum
12:30 Join lunch with your colleagues at the Faculty Club (16.6.16)

13:30

Thank you for your active participation (and see you at COBL Summer school  in 2025?) 


VENUES:

On campus: Sessions at Holst Auditorium (Mærsk Tower).

Lunch at Faculty Club (Panum building, 16.6.16)

Online: Zoom link will be provided in due time before the meeting.


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