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
LH217V Leading Educational Development 3.0 credits
Information per course offering
Information for Spring 2026 Start 13 Jan 2026 course for KTH staff
- Course location
KTH Campus
- Duration
- 13 Jan 2026 - 1 Jun 2026
- Periods
Spring 2026: P3 (1 hp), P4 (2 hp)
- Pace of study
10%
- Application code
10241
- Form of study
Normal Daytime
- Language of instruction
English
- Course memo
- Course memo is not published
- Number of places
10 - 30
- Target group
- No information inserted
- Planned modular schedule
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- Schedule
- Schedule is not published
- Part of programme
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Contact
Course syllabus as PDF
Please note: all information from the Course syllabus is available on this page in an accessible format.
Course syllabus LH217V (Spring 2019–)Headings with content from the Course syllabus LH217V (Spring 2019–) are denoted with an asterisk ( )
Content and learning outcomes
Course contents
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
Specific prerequisites
LH231V or the equivalent course from another university. This course is aimed towards teachers that have management responsibilities or that are interested of such assignments in education development.
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
Grading scale
P, F
Examination
- INL1 - Assignment, 3.0 credits, grading scale: P, F
Based on recommendation from KTH’s coordinator for disabilities, the examiner will decide how to adapt an examination for students with documented disability.
The examiner may apply another examination format when re-examining individual students.
If the course is discontinued, students may request to be examined during the following two academic years.
The course is examined based on preparation, active attendance at course meetings and through written assignments.
Examiner
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
Main field of study
Technology, Technology and Learning
Education cycle
Second cycle
Supplementary information
Prerequisite is the course LH231V or equivalent from KTH or another university or college.
The course is aimed primarily at teaching staff at KTH.
Teachers from other universities are welcome subject to availability.