The main goal of the Nordic project Quality Assurance in Higher Education was to develop and implement a self-evaluation model in the participating Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) to support their quality assurance work and continuous curriculum development. Furthermore, the project aimed at strengthening the cooperation of HEIs in quality assurance (QA) and disseminating good practices of Q...

University degrees, such as engineering, that focus on professional competences are becoming increasingly popular in Sweden. However, there is still a need to not only include but to integrate different interdisciplinary skills in courses and education programs. This paper reports and analyzes a case study of the integration of business skills in two different courses on different study program...

This paper discusses active learning games as a potentially important pedagogical technique in support of formal classroom education. A brief review of the active learning literature is given, followed by a list of known active learning games relevant to the CDIO engineering education context. As a specific example of an active learning game we present the learning objectives, rules, and implem...