Högskolepedagogisk utveckling har under senare år fått en tydligare och mer framträdande roll vid universitet och högskolor. Under senare år har också ett allt större fokus riktats mot utbildningars resultat. Frågor som rör kvaliteten i undervisningen blir därmed centrala. Att utveckla och stödja lärares pedagogiska skicklighet samt belysa villkoren för den undervisning som bedrivs inom högre utbildning är angeläget. Behovet av en gemensam samlingspunkt för pedagogiska och didaktiska diskussioner där BTH:s och Högskolan i Kristianstads lärare kan träffas och föra dessa diskussioner tillsammans och över ämnesgränser är stort. Genom att anordna en årlig högskolepedagogisk konferens vill vi främja ett utbyte av erfarenheter från den dagliga undervisningen och insikter kring det lärande som möjliggörs.

The academic year 2011 a national course in Work Integrated Learning started as a result of cooperation between Kristianstad University and University West. The ambition was to provide opportunities for a unique exchange between teachers, tutors and others associated with WIL and also mtake its point of departure from the participants' own teaching practices.

Our empirical results rests on the participants learning trajectories as well as some reflections on how the course web--‐based design has functioned as a learning facilitator. The preliminary results show that that participants altered between a surface and in depth learning process (Marton, XXXX). Structure seems to foster structure (SilÃn, XXXX). When we were given structure to a really high degree this made the students (our colleagues) demand for more structure.

The pedagogical starting point, the course content and structure will be presented along with the experiences of the course assignments, group discussions, project sketches and reflection diaries. We will also invite to an interactive discussion how to further develop the course through international cooperation.

Leif Karlsson och Anders Sonesson beskriver och diskuterar ett samverkansprojekt mellan Lunds universitet och Högskolan Kristianstad kring utbildning av forskarhandledare, som i sig innebär att: man kan utveckla den forskarhandledningsutbildning som finns; man kan stärka samarbetet mellan de två högskolorna; man kan skapa kommunikation och möten för framtida samarbete mellan olika discipliner inom det vetenskapliga fältet; och man kan utveckla kompetensen hos enskilda forskare. Projektet beskrivs på ett detaljerat sätt, och kopplas till vilka värden man menar sig kunna erhålla via en modell som den som presenteras. Det finns tre kurser med något individuella mål, det finns en progression mellan dem och helheten förväntas leda till en säkerhet inför framtida handledning.

Work Based/Placed Learning should not just introduce the students to a future professional role, but, in doing so, should be structured to retain the core elements of Higher Education learning through stimulating a critical and reflective attitude as well as aiming to fully develop the diversity of skills needed to encode, decode, ponder, interpret, evaluate and reach decisions about knowledge and practice. Learning at both the university and during the work--‐placed period might require students to adjust to routines and rules, but should also require them to exercise critical thinking that challenges status quo on the basis of a scientific approach to learning. Such a point of departure means that fundamental higher education pedagogical issues are put in focus. The Workshop will discuss different ways to address these pedagogical challenges drawing on the experience from the participants own pedagogical practice in or/and out of campus.

At Kristianstad University in Sweden it has been decided that all study programmes should have work-placed training consisting of at least a period of five weeks. In different strategy documents the University states that the main reason for this is to raise employability. At the same time the importance of maintaining academic quality is stressed. Interviews were carried out in 2006 with 22 students from The Health Promotion and Education Programme concerning what they perceived as the value and relevance of the concepts that are essential to academic quality, scientific foundation/scholarly activity, critical thinking and reflection, with respect to their practical activities during their internship. The results of the study show that the students perceived the value and relevance of the concepts quite differently. The five different patterns or categories that emerged: undeveloped, separated, performance-oriented, oppositional and participatory all give different prerequisites for developing professional expertise. The study reveals the importance of the students perceiving academic thinking to be important to their practical activities during their internship, but also the significance of a greater interaction between theory and practice for maintaining a better standard of education within higher education and for developing the prerequisites for professional expertise.