TY - GEN
T1 - Resource Decline in Higher Education – Perceptions and Consequences
AU - Arvidsson, Björn
AU - Gottsäter, Erik
AU - Hagelsteen, Magnus
AU - Linderoth, Oskar
AU - Mobini, Shifteh
N1 - Conference code: 9
PY - 2016/12/15
Y1 - 2016/12/15
N2 - Teaching students is one of the main tasks of LTH, as thousands of students engage on their engineering studies at the faculty every year. The funding for teaching these students is an essential source of income for LTH, but in recent years there has been an increased worry for diminishing financing for lecturing at the faculty.This study aims to investigate how lecturers perceive the development and what practical measures they have taken in their courses to counteract it. Interviews with ten lecturers at the department of Building and Environmental technology were performed. Many different practical strategies for dealing with the situation were documented during the interviews. The strategies are mainly focusing on making the students do more of the work on their own, e.g. working with the course literature. But the approaches to the problem varied greatly, as some lecturers tried to change as little as possible in order to save time, and others who saw a need for restructuring the entire educational program.
AB - Teaching students is one of the main tasks of LTH, as thousands of students engage on their engineering studies at the faculty every year. The funding for teaching these students is an essential source of income for LTH, but in recent years there has been an increased worry for diminishing financing for lecturing at the faculty.This study aims to investigate how lecturers perceive the development and what practical measures they have taken in their courses to counteract it. Interviews with ten lecturers at the department of Building and Environmental technology were performed. Many different practical strategies for dealing with the situation were documented during the interviews. The strategies are mainly focusing on making the students do more of the work on their own, e.g. working with the course literature. But the approaches to the problem varied greatly, as some lecturers tried to change as little as possible in order to save time, and others who saw a need for restructuring the entire educational program.
KW - Academic teaching, resource decline, teaching methods
UR - http://www.lth.se/genombrottet/lths-pedagogiska-inspirationskonferens/proceedings-2016/
M3 - Paper in conference proceeding
BT - LTHs 9:e Pedagogiska Inspirationskonferens
CY - Lund University
T2 - LTHs 9:e Pedagogiska Inspirationskonferens
Y2 - 15 December 2016 through 15 December 2016
ER -