Digi-comp project - Hybrid teaching at the Artistic Faculty
Short description
In 2021, a development project, funded by the unit for Pedagogical Development and Interactive Learning (PIL), was carried out at the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts. The purpose of the project was to promote competence in hybrid teaching among the teaching staff at the institutions HDK-Valand - Academy of Art and Design and the Academy of Music and Drama. The project was carried out between autumn 2020 and spring 2022.
The development work included trials of hybrid teaching with simultaneous online teaching on campus and distance learning and the production of a higher education seminar.
The pilot project aimed:
- To promote competence in hybrid teaching among teaching staff - with the aim of developing the partaking institutions' digital competence.
- Testing a method where hybrid teaching is used with simple means and with mobile equipment.
- Implementation of higher educational seminars to share experiences from the project - with the aim of developing and spreading knowledge about digital working methods at the faculty.
- To observe and research the development of hybrid teaching - with the aim of engaging a group of teachers interested in simultaneously participating in a study of the method's effects.
In addition, the project aim was to spread knowledge about hybrid teaching and generating new knowledge based on experiences in the project in an artistic academic context.
The four partaking teachers tried out both technical equipment and methodology in their own teaching and gathered experiences that were documented and discussed through recurring meetings. The teachers' tasks included participating in a faculty-wide seminar where they talked about their experiences. Even before the Corona pandemic, a number of teachers, with experience of hybrid teaching at other institutions of higher education, had stated that they lacked the skills and equipment needed to combine campus and online teaching at the institutions. The need also increased significantly during the pandemic.
The theoretical stance was taken from Hilli (2016), Vuopalas (2013) and Westling Allodi (2007, 2010). The result of the project led to online forms of teaching being anchored in the participating teachers' courses in a more comprehensive way and constituting support through the use of digital tools that are close to the specific needs that exist for artistic and art education education. Through the development project, more teachers became aware of how to develop forms of hybrid teaching with relatively simple means through sharing the experiences.
The teachers who participated in the project were Ylwa Andersson, junior lecturer Academy of Music and Drama, Per Johansson, junior lecturer Academy of Music and Drama, Mia Keller, junior lecturer HDK-Valand, Dan Tommi Hildén, junior lecturer HDK-Valand, and Tarja Karlsson Häikiö, professor HDK-Valand (project leader). Also, Emma Tveita, junior lecturer at Academy of Music and Drama was connected to the project. Arne-Kjell Vikhagen, lecturer at HDK-Valand, who was a representative in PIL's council for digitalization, participated in the application work.
On September 12, 2021, the project was presented at a Higher Pedagogical Seminar where all teaching staff at the faculty were invited. The faculty-wide Higher Pedagogical Seminars were arranged every semester as a forum for the exchange of pedagogical experiences. The project was also presented at the Higher Pedagogical Conference organized by the University of Gothenburg on November 23, 2021.
The research consisted of follow-up research on the teachers' testing of technology and methodology around hybrid teaching. The results were compiled in a scientifically based report and will be published in an upcoming article.