Robert Kordts

Position

Professor

Affiliation

Research groups

Short info

International background and extensive experience in educational development and university teaching ...
Expertise in emotions in teaching, curriculum design, and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning ...
Interest in sustainability in university teaching and teaching with generative AI ...
Research

Current research interests:

  • sustainability in higher education, especially transgressive teaching in climate change and activism
  • generative AI in higher education
  • the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)

Past research areas: 

  • in university pedagogy: university teachers' and students' emotions, interaction and learning at academic conferences, and online student evaluation of teaching
  • in psychology: implicit associations, the emotion relief and the cognitive processing of negated information
Teaching

University Pedagogy/Educational Development/Hochschuldidaktik: I am currently teaching at the Program for University Pedagogy at the University of Bergen. Here, I am responsible for the following courses:

  • UPED 601: Documenting and Evaluating Teaching Effectiveness (English/Norwegian)
  • UPED 602: Pedagogical Project (English/Norwegian)
  • UPED 659B: Leveraging Large Language Models and Artifical Intelligence for Teaching and Learning (English)
  • UPED 691: Becoming a Supervisor (English)
  • UPED 695: Project Management for Bachelor and Master Thesis Supervision (English)

Since fall 2023, I am teaching university pedagogy courses at the University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS).

In addition, I facilitate educational development courses at other European universities.

University Teaching: In the past, I have taught in psychology both from a basic and an applied perspective, among others:

  • Educational Psychology (Paderborn University, University of St.Gallen)
  • Emotion (Paderborn University)
  • Interaction in Leadership Situations (University of St.Gallen)
  • Pedagogical Project in Teacher Practicum (Paderborn University)

Student Supervision: I have supervised ca. 30 bachelor and master theses and have been involved in eight PhD supervision processes and committees.

 

Publications
Academic lecture
Feature article
Lecture
Poster
Report
Academic article
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Interview
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
Chapter
Introduction
Editorial
Book review
Doctoral dissertation

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