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Professor Anne Holmen co-edits new book on translanguaging

The book Translanguaging and Epistemological Decentring in Higher Education and Research is published on 31 January. Professor and centre leader at CIP, Anne Holmen, is co-editor. Purchase the book at 50% off before 31…

Open Access week 2022

This week, October 24 -28 2022, is 'Danish Open Access Week 2022'. The OA Network provides 10 webinars about Open Access - two each day - all cover Open Access in different ways. The webinars are free, and everybody…

New book on Malaria Immunology – including cutting-edge methods and protocols

During the last few years, Professor Lars Hviid and Professor Anja Ramstedt Jensen from Centre for Medical Parasitology at the Department of Immunology and Microbiology, UCPH, have spent many, many hours editing this…

This year’s summer language courses in Danish/German/French were extremely popular!

In August, CIP organised summer language courses in both Danish for international students and German and French for Danish students going on exchange. Both Danish and international students have been highly satisfied…

Associate professor Slobodanka Dimova is guest editor on special issue of the journal Language Testing

The most recent special issue of the journal Language Testing is guest edited by Slobodanka Dimova, associate professor at CIP, and two colleagues. The special issue extends the discussion on local language testing…

How to write a policy brief that matters

A workshop for Health researchers at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University College in Tanzania in collaboration with the University of Copenhagen on how to write policy briefs that matter.

Whole-body learning can boost children's letter sound recognition - the first step towards reading

Children who move while learning sounds of letters significantly improve their ability to recognize individual letter sounds. This is the conclusion of a new study conducted by the University of Copenhagen’s Department…

Online students engage more in lectures than physical attendees

New research demonstrates that online lecture attendees at the University of Copenhagen ask significantly more questions during large lectures than students who attend physically. This may be partly due to online…

Inspiration til det gode læringsmiljø på online seminarer

Den sociale dimension af læring i online-klasselokalet Hør her! “Face-to-face education isn’t successful because lecturing is good. Lectures are one instructional aspect of an overall ecosystem specifically designed to…

Dancing Across Borders: Perspectives on Dance, Young People and Change

The book focuses on how dance can contribute to ’crossing borders’ of very different characters: Between academia and arts practice, between dance and different school subjects, between cultures of different countries a…

Using Your Smartphone in Class Does Not Affect Your Learning

A large-scale research project among university students reveals that using your mobile phone in the classroom does not affect your learning negatively

3D breakthrough: Now anyone can print an interactive model of the brain

A new method developed by researchers at the University of Copenhagen allows anyone to print interactive 3D objects. These might include models of the brain, to be used as educational tools.

The Art of Dialogue in Coaching. Towards Transformative Exchange

In The Art of Dialogue in Coaching, Reinhard Stelter invites readers to engage in transformative and fruitful dialogues in everyday working life, and provides the theory and tools for them to be able to do so.

Nyt kursusforløb får veterinærstuderende på 1. år til at brænde for faget

Færre timer og flere studerende på faget Veterinær Zoologi på 1. semester, har fået professor Christian Kapel og lektor Nicolai V. Meyling til at udtænke et nyt kursusforløb. De nye studerende er glade og 96 procent…

Targeted Assessment Rubric: An Empirically Grounded Rubric for Interdisciplinary Writing

Article that can be used as input for method development of interdisciplinary education. Mansilla, V.B. et al., 2009. Targeted Assessment Rubric: An Empirically Grounded Rubric for Interdisciplinary Writing. The Journal…

From Surprise Parties to Mapmaking

Article focusing on student learning outcomes in interdisciplinary education. Haynes, C. & Leonard, J.B., 2010. From Surprise Parties to Mapmaking: Undergraduate Journeys toward Interdisciplinary Understanding. The…

Teaching Interdisciplinarity

Article about teaching interdisciplinarity. Burgett, B. et al., 2011. Teaching Interdisciplinarity. Pedagogy, 11(3), pp.465–491.

The Theory of Interdisciplinarity: An Introduction for Educators

Mads Goddiksen, 2017 Peer reviewed paper from the project. When developing interdisciplinary teaching, it helps to have an understanding of what is special about interdisciplinarity. Here I discuss some of the central…

Association for Interdisciplinary Studies (AIS)

International hub for interdisciplinary teaching and learning. AIS is a US based association, founded in. Their scope and views on interdisciplinarity is based on the American liberal arts tradition, which influences th…

New research collaboration about teaching of school children from Cape Town and Copenhagen

In 2017 the Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports and the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, both University of Copenhagen collaborate with the Danish Cultural Institute, University of Cape Town School of…

CoNavigator – a gamified tool for creating coherence in interdisciplinary courses

Katrine Lindvig - Tool developed as part of the project. Do you sometimes find it difficult to align and connect the different educational elements in your interdisciplinary course? Our new gamified tool could be a way…

Addressing interdisciplinarity in the mandatory philosophy of science courses (Fagets videnskabsteori)

Werner Schäfke and Katrine Meldgaard Kjær, 2016. A didactic tool paper from the project. A didactic tool paper for module managers of ‘Fagets Videnskabsteori’ at the University of Copenhagen. The tool paper offers…

Det første år på Naturressourcer

Rie Hjørnegaard Malm, Lene Møller Madsen, Lars Ulriksen & Andreas de Neergaard, 2016 Report from the project in Danish. Published in: IND's skriftserie nr. 47. 2016. I denne undersøgelse sætter vi fokus på de forskellig…