Planning

How do you design a course that maximises student learning? Based on the latest research on student learning and our collective experience working with teachers at SU, we share our best advice on how to plan and prepare your teaching.

What are the key characteristics of a course? How can you translate the things you want to teach into a syllabus that is transparent, engaging and fully focused on your students' learning?

Design learning environments

How you design your learning environments will affect your students' learning regardless of whether you have planned learning activities in a physical or digital environment. Here you will find inspiring tips and resources that support you when you want to design and develop your learning environments.

Interactive teaching in Active Learning Classrooms

The Active Learning Classroom (ALC) model is based on research on active learning and interactive teaching. ALCs are often furnished with round tables for collaboration, with a whiteboard at each table.  The classrooms are generally also equipped with digital technology that facilitates interactive teaching and blended learning.

How to teach in Active Learning Classrooms

Preparatory materials for teaching in ALCs

Flipping the classroom

A ‘Flipped Classroom’ approach is a great way to provide students with an Active Learning opportunity. Active Learning is fundamental to the way we teach in Higher Education: engaging students in finding information and then developing their understanding of that material. It is key to deepening understanding of the subject and developing independent learners.

Read about flipping the classroom

How to plan for hybrid teaching

Hybrid teaching means that students can take part in their education both through learning activities that are given digitally at a distance and physically on Campus, asynchronously on different occasions or synchronously with students both online and on Campus at the same time.

Hybrid teaching is an educational model in which some students attend a lecture or seminar in-person at campus, while others join virtually from home. Lecturers therefore teach remote and in-person students at the same time using tools like Zoom, alongside the full range of digital tools at Stockholm University.

Organize synchronous hybrid teaching

Synchronous hybrid teaching is a form of teaching where students are offered to participate in one and the same teaching opportunity either on site in the classroom or via screens from their digital devices. It is a form of teaching that creates a great deal of flexibility.

Organize synchronous hybrid teaching

15 tips for those you who want to try try hybrid teaching

Many studies have shown that teaching in hybrid format can be perceived as very complex and stressful for teachers. Here we have therefore gathered general research and experience-based advice and tips that can facilitate teaching for you who want to try some form of hybrid teaching.

15 tips for those who want to try hybrid teaching

As early as 2001, it was written into the Higher Education Act that universities must strive for a broader recruitment to higher education, and in 2020 the Swedish Higher Education Authority (UKÄ) was commissioned by the government to evaluate the university's work with broadened recruitment. The proportion of graduates from upper-secondary education who apply for higher education has increased greatly in recent years, and teachers in higher education today face a greater diversity among students than just 10 years ago. One way to meet the broadened recruitment is to offer our students accessible teaching that facilitates studies for all and that can improve the overall pedagogical quality.

Checklist for accessible teaching