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LH217U Leading Educational Development 3.0 credits

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Termin

Information for Autumn 2025 Start 25 Aug 2025 contract education

Course location

KTH Campus

Duration
25 Aug 2025 - 12 Jan 2026
Periods
P1 (1.0 hp), P2 (2.0 hp)
Pace of study

10%

Application code

50694

Form of study

Normal Daytime

Language of instruction

Swedish

Course memo
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Number of places

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Course syllabus as PDF

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Course syllabus LH217U (Autumn 2023–)
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Content and learning outcomes

Course contents

The course is built up around the following themes:

  • The aim, management, leadership and evaluation of higher education
  • Development and transformation of higher education
  • Collegiality
  • Changing strategies, education cultures and resistance

Intended learning outcomes

The general aim of the course is that current and potential faculty programme directors should be given possibilities to develop both visions and strategies as knowledge, methods and approaches for innovation, development and transformation at the department/programme/school.

After the course, participants are expected to be able to:

  1. formulate a vision for the role, focus and design of the education;
  2.  identify possibilities and needs for development and transformation, both generally for university and higher education, and specifically in their own activities;
  3. design strategies for education development and transformation and for handling resistance against change;
  4. problematise and relate to different governances, rules and guidelines and different interested parties that have influence on or are affected by education development and transformation;
  5. describe their own leadership role and its responsibility, authority and possibilities to drive change.

Literature and preparations

Literature

You can find information about course literature either in the course memo for the course offering or in the course room in Canvas.

Examination and completion

If the course is discontinued, students may request to be examined during the following two academic years.

Grading scale

P, F

Examination

  • INL1 - Assignment, 3.0 credits, grading scale: P, F

Examiner

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Profile picture Anders Rosén

Ethical approach

  • All members of a group are responsible for the group's work.
  • In any assessment, every student shall honestly disclose any help received and sources used.
  • In an oral assessment, every student shall be able to present and answer questions about the entire assignment and solution.

Further information

Course room in Canvas

Registered students find further information about the implementation of the course in the course room in Canvas. A link to the course room can be found under the tab Studies in the Personal menu at the start of the course.

Offered by

ITM/Learning in Engineering Sciences

Main field of study

Technology, Technology and Learning

Education cycle

Second cycle