The LA-Program: Reflections, feedback and (your?) insight

Vidar Skogvoll: 

The Learning Assistant (LA) program is KURT’s program for providing group teachers at the UiO MatNat Faculty with basic pedagogy and group management skills to lead effective seminars - implementing active learning, fostering discussion and encouraging attendance.

The LA-model was developed at the University of Colorado Boulder in 2002, has been subject to several research efforts demonstrating its impact and was implemented by Tor Ole Odden at UiO in 2018. In the fall of 2023, I took over the project and have completed my first iteration of the program with complete attendance from all 17 group teachers and received positive feedback.

In this talk, I will lay out the program as it was implemented this fall, share the feedback I have received, discuss reflections that I have made, and ask for your insight on areas of improvement.

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Vidar Skogvoll / KURT

Bio

Vidar Skogvoll is a Senior Lecturer at KURT – Centre for Teaching and Learning in Science

The bi-weekly ODD seminar series at CCSE

The Open Discussions on Didactics (ODD) is a seminar series on Mondays at 13:00-14:00 every other week (odd week numbers) at CCSE.

The seminar will be maximum one hour, often closer to half an hour. It is an informal arena to present and discuss learning theory, educational research and teaching experiences within computational science. To cater to the highly heterogeneous backgrounds and interests of students, teachers and researchers in our environment, we aim for seminars that introduce listeners to new ideas within a broad spectrum of aspects, and that invites reflection and discussion.

Presentations need not be mature and polished - to the contrary we hope that as many as possible wants to share undigested observations and reflections in short presentations of varied form and topics. We hope to have enough contributions to frequently have the meetings as lightning talk sessions, where three different speakers will each give a 5-10-minute presentation followed by discussion.

Published Oct. 31, 2023 11:41 AM - Last modified Oct. 31, 2023 11:41 AM