Course, master’s level
15 credits
Distance | daytime | 50%
31 August 2026 - 17 January 2027
Course code: HP712E

This course is offered as part of programme:

Course content

The aim of the course is to introduce the participants to the research area of teaching and learning in higher education. The course focuses on one’s own teaching practice and how contemporary theories of learning, with a particular focus on adult learning, can be applied in higher education pedagogy. The course also deals with contemporary challenges for teaching in higher education and how they can be met.

Entry requirements

General entry requirements:
First-cycle qualification comprising at least 180 credits.

Specific entry requirements:

- at least three years of documented experience of teaching at a higher education level, or working with skills development in an equivalent organisation (for example, the Swedish Police Authority, Swedish Customs, Swedish Armed Forces), in addition to English 6,
OR
- at least one year of documented experience of teaching at a higher education level, and successful completion of courses comprising at least 60 credits in educational sciences or other subjects in the behavioural sciences, in addition to English 6.

Course literature

Current literature list is available in the syllabus for the course

Course evaluation

Malmö University provides students who participate in, or who have completed a course, with the opportunity to express their opinions and describe their experiences of the course by completing a course evaluation administered by the University. The University will compile and summarise the results of course evaluations. The University will also inform participants of the results and any decisions relating to measures taken in response to the course evaluations. The results will be made available to the students (HF 1:14).