Lunch Seminar - Student involvement in quality work – perspectives, problems and potentials

Involving students in issues related to their own learning is becoming an increasing problem. In many countries, students are difficult to engage, although it is often a formal requirement that they should be involved in quality assurance practices at institutional and national level.

This seminar will dive into the causes behind this seemingly lack of engagement, the problems it creates for systematic quality improvement work, but will also look into promising avenues for stimulating students to be more active and involved in matters regarding their own learning trajectories.

Bjørn Stensaker is a professor of higher education at University of Oslo, and a research professor at NIFU – the Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education in Oslo. Dr. Stensaker has been engaged in studies of quality and quality improvement in higher education in the Nordic region, in Europe and beyond, and has published in these and related issues in a number of international journals and book series.