Published 7 October 2015 “We need to close the knowledge gap”, says Andrius Plepys, one of the IIIEE researchers in search of the reasons why energy-innovative lighting is still so rare in Swedish schools and hospitals. New business models and commercial opportunities in lighting:What stops LEDs from hitting the market? Energy efficient lighting as in LED is an essential technique in a sustainable

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/meet-iiiee-researcher-andrius-plepys - 2025-01-09

By li [dot] strandberg [at] iiiee [dot] lu [dot] se (Li Strandberg) - published 5 April 2022 Yuliya Voytenko Palgan and her father Volodymyr Voitenko meet with Vice-Chancellor Erik Renström and Pro Vice-Chancellor Per Mickwitz. (Photo: Kennet Ruona) Our colleague Yuliya Voytenko Palgan is one of the driving spirits at the University who are doing everything they can to help Ukraine and the people

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/yuliya-fighting-ukraine - 2025-01-09

By li [dot] strandberg [at] iiiee [dot] lu [dot] se (Li Strandberg) - published 7 April 2022 The IIIEE building. Photo: Charlotte Carlberg Bärg The year 2021 was characterised by COVID-19 with online meetings and hybrid education, but also by the many innovative solutions to keep a collaborate, engaging and vibrant environment for both students and staff when working from home. Looking back, we ma

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-annual-report-2021 - 2025-01-09

By li [dot] strandberg [at] iiiee [dot] lu [dot] se (Li Strandberg) - published 12 April 2022 The Russian invasion of Ukraine raised concerns about Europe’s dependence on Russian natural gas. In a recent interview to Extrakt magazine Professor Aleh Cherp argues that this will increase the interest of European countries to construct new or prolong the operation of existing nuclear power plants. Ale

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/will-war-ukraine-provide-boost-nuclear-power - 2025-01-09

By li [dot] strandberg [at] iiiee [dot] lu [dot] se (Li Strandberg) - published 21 April 2022 Photo: Marie Andersson Meet our new colleague Samson Mukanjari who recently joined the IIIEE. Originally from Zimbabwe, with a master’s degree from the University of Cape Town and a PhD from the University of Gothenburg, he has now moved to Lund with his family. Samson has a background in economics and wi

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/welcome-samson-mukanjari - 2025-01-09

By li [dot] strandberg [at] iiiee [dot] lu [dot] se (Li Strandberg) - published 25 April 2022 Augustenborg. Photo: VASyd In a new article published in Frontiers in Sustainable Cities (Urban Greening section), IIIEE researchers Björn Wickenberg, Bernadett Kiss, Kes McCormick and Yuliya Voytenko Palgan unpack enabling and constraining factors for transformative learning through interpretative case s

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/seeds-transformative-learning-investigating-past-experiences-implementing-nature-based-solutions - 2025-01-09

Published 7 October 2015 Oksana Mont holds the default choice as the nudge with the strongest potential to change behaviours: “Changing the default choice in a sustainable direction has proven very effective.” Nudging: A tool for sustainable behaviourSometimes, a gentle nudge is all it takes for us to do the right thing. With a report written by three IIIEE researchers, nudging as a behavioural to

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/meet-iiiee-researcher-oksana-mont - 2025-01-09

By li [dot] strandberg [at] iiiee [dot] lu [dot] se (Li Strandberg) - published 25 April 2022 There is a clear and urgent need to accelerate the implementation of sustainability solutions. We must move beyond simple conceptual understanding of solutions, instead experimenting with collaborators in contexts in order to improve effectiveness, share learnings with others, and avoid future mistakes th

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-podcast-episode-its-not-just-concept-holistic-approach-implement-nature-based-solutions - 2025-01-09

Published 3 August 2020 Don´t let the technology and the digital learning environment be a challenge that disturbs your students learning processes!  Did you know that there is a new guide for students by students about the most common tools such as canvas, zoom etc? Don´t waste your time on writing explanations - take part of the guide here:        Log in to Canvas Canvas student guide

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/do-you-need-instructions-your-students - 2025-01-09

Published 8 March 2021 Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash Covid-19 has forced us to find alternatives to our traditional exam methods, alternatives that work digitally and on remote. The most common ways to deal with this have been to try to squeeze the traditional methods into a digital format, reduce the time available and add remote “surveillance” of the students. These alternatives have worked

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/digital-open-book-exam-option-covid-spring - 2025-01-09

By bjorn [dot] fritz [at] kultur [dot] lu [dot] se (Björn Fritz) - published 8 March 2021 As long as we need to examination remotley, we will need to do it in partly new ways. There are no methods for "translating" an examination on campus into the same examination done at home, and different forms of examination handle the adjustments needed differently. Photo by pan xiaozhen on Unsplash Home exa

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/easier-formative-assessment - 2025-01-09

Published 8 March 2021 In times when the majority of students need to take exams in an online environment, there are many teachers who wish to monitor the exam via camera surveillance in Zoom. There are many different ways to handle this, Karin Bergman from the department of economics has written about how she approaches this. Foto: Patrick on Unsplash We have used Zoom monitoring in a couple of e

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/heres-what-we-did-monitoring-zoom - 2025-01-09

Published 8 March 2021 Photo by Lukas Blazek on Unsplash As a Swedish university, Lund University needs to ensure that students with disabilities find themselves in a comparable situation with other students. Course coordinators or examiners may need to make adjustments so that the digital teaching and examination is accessible to students with a disability. Some students may have a disability tha

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/importance-extended-writing-time - 2025-01-09

Published 4 March 2021 In a master’s course in commercial theory where the regular exam was conducted in writing in a physical classroom before the pandemic, the re-examinations were conducted orally via Zoom Photo by ThisisEngineering RAEng on Unsplash The course had about 20 students and to emulate the design of the physical exam, the exam was performed in two parts. The students were given diff

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By anna [dot] lothman [at] ehl [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Löthman) - published 4 March 2021 Picture: Unsplash “I’m committed to the students and their education and I want to make the best I can with the help of the tools we have at our disposal”, says Igor Martins, teacher at School of Economics and Management, Lund University. Since Igor is such a popular teacher he was asked to share his best tips

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/tips-using-digital-tools-your-course-teacher-year - 2025-01-09

Published 8 March 2021 At the School of Economics, Per Jochumzen teaches courses on mathematics and microeconomics. He believes that there are major challenges around how to handle cheating in areas where students’ knowledge cannot be tested through, for example, essays. Peter writes: In my opinion, the biggest challenge with home exams is to prevent cheating. This especially applies to situations

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/creating-conditions-avoid-cheating - 2025-01-09

Published 4 March 2021 When using quizzes you might want to adjust the points to make them better match what the student deserve. Photo by Ben White on Unsplash Inflexibility Many of us are using the quiz function in Canvas, both for allowing students to practice and for exams. Canvas uses a rather inflexible way of automatically grading the answers in most cases – either the answers are completel

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/using-quizzes-give-your-students-points-they-deserve - 2025-01-09

Published 4 March 2021 During the pandemic, when the majority of students needed to take exams in an online environment, many teachers wished to monitor the exam via camera surveillance in Zoom. This may only be needed at certain occasions in the future, and there are many different ways to handle this. Here, Karin Bergman from the Department of Economics, has written about how they did it during

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/heres-what-we-did-monitoring-zoom-0 - 2025-01-09

By bjorn [dot] fritz [at] kultur [dot] lu [dot] se (Björn Fritz) - published 4 March 2021 As long as we need to examine remotely, we will need to examine in partly new ways. There are no methods for "translating" an on-campus examination into an identical remote examination, but rather, different forms of examination cope with the transition to varying degrees. Photo by pan xiaozhen on Unsplash Ex

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/better-course-formative-examination - 2025-01-09

Published 4 March 2021 Many teachers would probably agree that it is an art to write good multiple choice questions. Multiple Choice Questions or MCQ are so-called closed questions, where the answering person gets to choose from a number of given answer options instead of formulating an answer themselves. Photo by Dan Asaki on Unsplash Text by Ann-Catrin Johansson, LTH  MCQ When creating your mult

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/art-formulating-mcq-quiz - 2025-01-09