A common view of core tasks and synergies

In practice, this means that we are currently spending time getting closer to everyday life in the areas and tasks that are gathered in SDU Education. Here are two insights from Planning and SDU Centre for Teaching and Learning (SDU UP) about core tasks and cross-connections.

Insight into Planning's tasks in practice

I have attended an OSCE in medicine. This is an examination type in the medical degree programme where students are tested in clinical skills, theoretical knowledge and communication through a series of stations with simulated patients.

There was no doubt that the implementation was very well organised, and for me it was a concrete and valuable way to get a better insight into Planning's tasks and the workflows that must function safely and stably.

I'm also looking forward to experiencing the organisation of the large on-campus exams, i.e. written exams, several of which are held synchronously across our campuses.

SDU Centre for Teaching and Learning as an independent department

As described on this page, as of 1 January, SDU UP has become an independent department in SDU Education. With SDU UP in SDU Education, we also strengthen the part of the organisation that supports lecturers in their teaching and heads of studies with their education. Among other things, SDU UP is responsible for the lecturer training programme, which around 80 academic staff complete every year.

Overall, this means that Planning and SDU UP support lecturers both administratively and pedagogically, while maintaining a strong focus on the students.

The placement of SDU UP in SDU Education will contribute to better coherence between strategic initiatives such as graduate reform and internationalisation, the work with educational quality and system support for teaching, such as Itslearning.

The department will also strengthen the coordination of pedagogical efforts in the Central Administration and across the university.

Already last week, I visited SDU UP together with the Chief of Staff in SDU Education to initiate joint knowledge sharing on core tasks. This will continue this week with a meeting between the heads of department in SDU Education and SDU UP.

Joint solutions with room for professionalism

In the future, we must work on common solutions that create recognisability for students and lecturers and simplify administrative tasks. In our work, we must take professional considerations into account, which is why the solutions will be developed in collaboration between lecturers, pedagogical consultants, programme administrators, programme coordinators and other relevant specialists.

We have strengthened this interaction by bringing together the educational administration tasks in SDU Education and in the faculty administrations.