This course focuses on professors and associate professors who are appointed to have special responsibility for coordinating and developing education and teaching for example course manager, programme coordinator, or head of degree programme.

The course is aimed at the scientific staff who, in addition to their own teaching and research, also have a special organisational responsibility for coordinating and developing education/teaching - a ' role that is carried out without formal management responsibility.

The overall purpose of the course is to contribute knowledge about the special function and organisational position of the dual role, as well as the development of one's own role, with a focus on various aspects of collegial collaborations such as course evaluation.

The course is organised so it reflects the collegial community corresponding to level 3 in the Danish framework for advancing university pedagogy.

Further information here: Danish framework for advancing university pedagogy

Learning outcome

After completion of the course, participants will be able to: 

• Analyse and assess the specific organisational position and function of the role based on research on educational leadership
• Translate and use knowledge to handle your own role in local contexts
• Involve the organisation in aligning expectations of the functions of the role
• Manage collegial collaborations on, for example, course development

Content

The course is about educational leadership and addresses dilemmas, different expectations, and opportunities in practice for those responsible for teaching without formal management responsibility.

The course will give participants knowledge of their role's special organizational location, role, and function. In addition, the focus will be on practice-oriented development of one's own role within educational leadership with different perspectives on facilitating collegial collaborations.