Pedagogical Prizes

Every year, the University of Gothenburg awards two pedagogical prizes, an individual prize and a team prize, to reward teachers who have developed and implemented a course or a programme in an exemplary way. By paying attention to and thereby stimulating such efforts, teachers can be given recognition for their quality-developing pedagogical achievements. The purpose of the prize is also to make the efforts known outside of the course or programme in question, and in this way serve as good examples of pedagogical development.

Information about nomination 2011

Recipients of the Pedagogical Prizes for 2010

Carl-Magnus Olsson at the Department of Applied Information Technology is the recipient of the 2010 individual pedagogical prize at the University of Gothenburg. The team prize goes to six staff members at the Department of Political Science and the Economics Library.

The team prize

The recipients of the 2010 team pedagogical prize have successfully managed to integrate theory and practice in European Studies. A course developed jointly by teachers and librarians equips students with in-depth knowledge, a holistic perspective and an ability to make reflections. This is accomplished not least through the third and final examination (report, presentation and discussion) and strengthens the students’ understanding of how European decision making can work in practice. Students feel they have a great advantage with respect to knowledge on how to retrieve information when later writing their bachelor essays. The Quality Council also finds that the course curriculum largely corresponds to observed labour market requirements in terms of applicability.
The recipients are Andrea Spehar and Linda Berg from the Department of Political Science and Anna Isaksson, Britt Omstedt, Gunnar Oxelqvist and Joakim Lennartsson from the Economics Library.

The individual prize

The recipient of the 2010 individual pedagogical prize Carl-Magnus Olsson, Department of Applied Information Technology, has developed the course Industrial IT and Embedded Systems Project in a particularly exemplary way. In the course, students actively formulate a project in which they get to apply their theoretical and accumulated knowledge when solving problems related to software development. Carl-Magnus Olsson has clear ideas of how to develop IT programmes to better inspire students to take on real challenges – and he has shown that he is capable of implementing his ideas in practice.

Read more about the University of Gothenburg’s pedagogical prize at www.gu.se/kvalitet