NEW EXCELLENT TEACHING PRACTITIONER at NHH
NHH Professor Eirik Sjåholm Knudsen has become an Excellent Teaching Practitioner.
Three new excellent teaching practitioners at NHH
NHH researchers Carsten Bienz, Therese Egeland, and Kristin Rygg have been honored with the title of "Excellent Teaching Practitioner." This prestigious award aims to foster a collegial and professional culture in teaching and learning.
The system for rewarding excellence in teaching is formalised to develop a collegial and professional teaching and learning culture and to systematically document and reward efforts to develop teaching. The system, implemented in 2019, complements other arrangements at NHH to promote educational quality.
- Associate Professor Carsten Bienz at the Department of Finance
- Professor Therese Egeland at the Department of Strategy and Management
- Associate Professor Kristin Rygg at the Department of Professional Communication and Intercultural Communication
NHH now has 12 "Excellent Teaching Practitioners": Jan Ubøe, Stig Tenold, Annelise Ly, Iver Bragelien, Herbjørn Nysveen, Kjetil Bjorvatn. Jon Iden, Alexander Cappelen and og Eirik Sjåholm Knudsen.
According to the committee, Carsten Bienz has a clear focus on student learning and is not afraid to try out alternative teaching methods and forms of assessment. Bienz makes changes based on systematic evaluations, uses pedagogical literature to inspire his experiments and shares experiences with colleagues. The transition to more case-based teaching and flipped classroom approach can be traced back by Bienz himself to experiences from participating in courses at Harvard. Moving forward, Bienz will further examine the workload for students - after he adjusted his teaching methods and now involves students much more than before.
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Egeland prioritizes student learning, focusing primarily on student-centred learning in safe and positive environments, often through collaborative learning practices. Her relationship with her students seems very good. She is knowledgeable about pedagogical literature, using it for inspiration and evaluating her educational development. Egeland demonstrates clear progression over time, showing good collegial practice.
Rygg focuses primarily on student learning, developing her teachings based on student feedback and personal assessments over time. Rygg considers research-based approaches towards education integrating feedback, resulting outcomes/experiences into further advancements within her educational practice. She maintains awareness regarding her own educational principles, reflecting them into her chosen forms/methods of education/assessment.