
Arnold Pears is the Head of the Department of Learning in Engineering Sciences and Professor of Technology and Engineering Education at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Within Unite!, he has been working with capacity building initiatives in the context of the Teaching and Learning Academy activity and also within the virtual campus, to create collaborative courses and share innovative pedagogies. On a personal level, he is a keen fencer and has trained as a fencing master for Foil and Epee in modern Olympic Fencing. Arnold lives in a village outside Uppsala in Sweden and enjoys renovating his historical house.
What future Unite! project are you particularly excited about and why do you think it is important for Unite!'s strategy?
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More information about the working group Arnold is involved in:
The Unite! Teaching and Learning Academy is a working group that joins the alliance's members' vast experiences in engineering education. The Teaching and Learning Academy activities help prepare the worldviews of our graduates to be broad, adaptable and multicultural, respecting European liberal democracy and inclusiveness. The working group is focused on developing flexible study paths and joint curricula, with embedded mobility, expanding beyond the traditional dual and double degree ideology into development of joint degrees. This enables Unite! students to develop individualized professional profiles, in which they are co-creators of their learning.
The Teaching and Learning Academy so far has launched a Joint Programme Communications Engineering and Data Science (CoDas ), while several joint programmes are in the pipeline. In place are interdisciplinary and challenge-based study courses (INSPIRED, ULisses), reflecting ways to implement flexible study pathways and conducting a pilot series of webinars on Teaching and Learning (TAL).