Teaching

Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education: Challenges and Opportunities

Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping the academic landscape. One of the most talked-about tools is ChatGPT – a powerful new language model capable of generating essay excerpts, computer code, and other content that can be difficult to distinguish from genuine student work.

What does this mean for teaching and assessment in higher education? How can we adapt our practices to meet the challenges – and seize the opportunities – that this technology brings?

Explore resources, insights, and strategies to help you navigate the evolving role of AI in your teaching.

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

Activate eduroam before you come to the ALC!

Students and teachers who want to connect their own laptops, tablets, or smartphones to the ALC system must have activated eduroam on the device before they can hook it up. The system uses Airplay for Apple devices and Miracast for others.

Instructions for students on how to activate eduroam (link missing)

Instructions for staff (link missing)

It is also possible to bring material on a usb-memory stick or to download it from cloud storage to use in the ALC system.

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