The Millennials, today’s pupils and students, is the first generation to grow up with tools for interactive communication and media production. Many students choose to study music production in higher education establishments. Therefore music production is an emerging subject and important research topic. The aim of this thesis is to develop knowledge of music production and to identify key skills necessary for music producers and music production teachers. Three sub-studies were performed to investigate what characterizes music production, both in an educational context and as a professional activity. In the first study, a Desktop Music Production project in a municipal music school was investigated. Observations and interviews were used as data collection methods. The results show that teachers need to be multi skilled to teach musicproduction. In addition to standard teaching skills they need to have extensive knowledge of music technology and relevant contemporary knowledge about trends in youth culture and popular music. In the second study students' views on important learning outcomes in music production were investigated. Questionnaires and group interviews were used to collect data. The results show that music production is a topic that includes various types of content. Issues regarding music, technology, music industry, personal development and employability were of central importance to the students. In the third study eleven professionals were interviewed, all music production teachers or active music producers. The main result was that the skills required for both music producers and music production teachers are varied and extensive. Psychology and leadership, music, technology, ethics, law and copyright, entrepreneurship and cultural timing are particularly relevant to music production. Based on these results, a model for education in music production is presented. Music production also differs from traditional music education. In addition to traditional musical and pedagogic skills it requires technical competence from the teachers. Men dominate music production teaching, and the vast majority of professional music producers are also men. Technological developments are affecting young people's musical skills, and therefore it’s a challenge for music teachers to meet pupils and students who already have advanced knowledge of music production and are eager to learn more.

The Pedagogical progression within MSI – Based upon The Bologna Process and UPC. In a near future several of the European countries will begin working after new guidelines concerning a declaration called the Bologna process. Everything will be done one step at a time and the declaration will change the way the students are being graded, all this for the sake of making the European labour-market more opened for all of its millions of students. In Växjö this process is in the making, but to adapt to the future demands the school must also change its ways of teaching. To increase its quality the University has put together a procedure of actions to improve the pedagogical working method in all its institutions. In this essay we would like to elucidate how the work with the Bologna process is proceeding within the institution of Mathematics and System Engineering and what they do improve their pedagogical teaching. By doing a qualitative case study on the student at the Computer Science Program we wish to find the answers to our questions. / Det pedagogiska arbetet inom MSI – Utifrån Bolognaprocessen och UPC. Inom en snar framtid kommer flertalet länder i Europa jobba efter nya riktlinjer enligt en deklaration kallad Bolognaprocessen. Det hela kommer att ske i etapper och innebär att sättet på vilket studenter bedöms kommer ändras, allt för att göra Europas arbetsmarknad öppnare för alla dess miljoner studerande. I Växjö pågår detta arbete för fullt, men för att anpassa sig till framtida krav måste skolan även förändra sin utbildningsform. För att höja sin kvalité har universitetet tagit fram en handlingsplan för att förbättra de pedagogiska arbetsmetoderna i alla institutioner. I den här uppsatsen vill vi belysa hur arbetet med Bolognaprocessen fortgår inom Matematiska och systemtekniska institutionen och vad de gör för att förbättra den pedagogiska undervisningen. Genom att göra en kvalitativ undersökning med Systemvetenskapliga programmets studenter försöker vi finna svaren på våra frågor.

Student mobility in the area of Higher Education (HE) is gaining more attention nowadays. It is one of the cornerstones of the Bologna Process being promoted at both national and international levels. However, currently there is no technical system that would support student mobility processes and assist users in authoring educational curricula involving student mobility. In this study, the problem of student mobility programmes generation based on existing modules and programmes is considered. A similar problem is being solved in an Intelligent Tutoring Systems field using Curriculum generation techniques, but the student mobility area has a set of characteristics limiting their application to the considered problem. One of main limiting factors is that mobility programmes should be developed in an environment with heterogeneous regulations. In this environment, various established routines and regulations are used to control different aspects of the educational process. These regulations can be different in different domains and are supported by different authors independently. In this thesis, a novel framework was developed for generation of student mobility programmes in an environment with heterogeneous regulations. Two core technologies that were coherently combined in the framework are hierarchical planning and policy-based management. The policy-based planner was designed as a central engine for the framework. It extends the functionality of existing planning technologies and provides the means to carry out planning in environments with heterogeneous regulations, specified as policies. The policy-based planner enforces the policies during the planning and guarantees that the resultant plan is conformant with all policies applicable to it. The policies can be supported by different authors independently. Using them, policy authors can specify additional constraints on the execution of planning actions and extend the pre-specified task networks. Policies are enforced during the planning in a coordinated manner: situations when a policy can be enforced are defined by its scope, and the outcomes of policy evaluation are processed according to the specially defined procedures. For solving the problem of student mobility programme generation using the policy-based planner, the planning environment describing the student mobility problem area was designed and this problem was formalised as a planning task. Educational processes valid throughout the HE environment were formalised using Hierarchical Task Network planning constructs. Different mobility schemas were encoded as decomposition methods that can be combined to construct complex mobility scenarios satisfying the user requirements. New mobility programmes are developed as detailed educational processes carried out when students study according to these programmes. This provides the means to model their execution in the planning environment and guarantee that all relevant requirements are checked. The postponed policy enforcement mechanism was developed as an extension of the policy-based planner in order to improve the planning performance. In this mechanism, future dead-ends can be detected earlier during the planning using partial policy requests. The partial policy requests and an algorithm for their evaluation were introduced to examine policies for planning actions that should be executed in the future course of planning. The postponed policy enforcement mechanism was applied to the mobility programme generation problem within the descending policy evaluation technique. This technique was designed to optimise the process of programme components selection. Using it, policies for different domains can be evaluated independently in a descending order, gradually limiting the scope for the required component selection. The prototype of student mobility programme generation solution was developed. Two case studies were used to examine the process of student mobility programmes development and to analyse the role of policies in this process. Additionally, four series of experiments were carried out to analyse performance gains of the descending policy evaluation technique in planning environments with different characteristics.

L'évaluation des universités est un processus par lequel une institution compare ses objectifs déclarés (ou ses progrès) avec ceux des années précédentes. La première approche de l'évaluation universitaire en Europe a commencé dans les années 1990, lorsque le processus externe d'assurance qualité a été adopté par le Conseil Européen des ministres de l'enseignement ainsi que l'évaluation des activités d'apprentissage dans les État membres. Mais l'activité de l'évaluation institutionnelle est considérée aujourd'hui comme le produit principal du processus de Bologne au sein de l'Europe. La qualité de l'enseignement supérieur en Europe est en effet suivie surveillée par différentes agences d'accréditation. La méta-évaluation de es organismes se fait par ENQA (European association for quality assurance in Higher Education). / University evaluation is a process by which an institution compares its stated goals or progress with those attained in preceding years. The first approach of university evaluation in Europe began in 1990s when the European Council of ministers adopted external quality assurance process to evaluate teaching and learning activities in the member state. The Bologna process further organized the activity of institutional evaluation across Europe. The quality of higher education in Europe is monitored by different quality and accreditation agencies. It is the European association for quality assurance in Higher Education (ENQA) that carries out the meta-evaluation of these agencies.

The paper describes the exchange program in between the University of Wisconsin/ Milwaukee and the University of Potsdam in the field of economics. It discusses in detail the development of the program, including the problems and challenges. Additionally a brief description of the curriculum is presented. Then the future possibilities of the Transatlantic Degree Program (TDP) are discussed and the influences and problems of the Bologna process analysed.

Licentiatavhandlingens övergripande syfte var att studera konsekvenser av ökad akademisering och akademiskt lärande inom Svensk specialist-sjuksköterskeutbildning efter genomförande av ny utbildningsreform enligt Bologna. Bakgrund: Specialistsjuksköterskor förväntas i dagens hälso– och sjukvård att kunna bedriva en patientsäker och evidensbaserad vård, vilket kräver akademisk kompetens. Utbildningen till specialistsjuksköterska fördes i och med Bolognaprocessens införande i Sverige 2007 till avancerad utbildningsnivå. Både yrkesexamen och akademisk examen (magisterexamen) skulle inkluderas och integreras i samma utbildning. Detta medförde en förändring från en ämnesinriktad (samlingskodsinriktad) läroplan till en läroplan som syftar till att integrera ämnen (integrationskodsinriktad). Förutom ämnesintegrering skulle yrkesspecifika mål integreras med akademiska mål. Metod: Artikel I genomfördes i form av ett didaktiskt aktionsforskningsprojekt som pågick under 2½ år. En projektledningsgrupp (n=15-18) från fem lärosäten bildades. Denna grupp har aktivt deltagit i hela aktionsforskningsprocessen och vid projektmöten. Vid varje lärosäte utsågs en projektansvarig som ansvarade för den lokala aktionsforskningsprocessen. Dessa personer samlande in data i form av kursplaner, utbildningsplaner, studiehandledningar, minnesanteckningar från lärarmöten och möten med vårdverksamheter samt minnesanteckningar från forskargruppensmöten. Analys har gjorts med hjälp av konstant komparativ analysmetod. I artikel II användes konstruktivistisk Grounded Theory för att samla in och analysera data. Datainsamlingen påbörjades utifrån specialistsjuksköterskestudenters svar på en enkäts öppna fråga (n=120) i samband med utbildningens avslutning 2009 och 2010. Enkätsvaren reste frågor om specialistsjuksköterskans akademiska lärande. För att inhämta en djupare förståelse genomfördes intervjuer med specialistsjuksköterskor (n=12) som yrkesarbetat mellan 5 och 12 månader efter sin examen. Intervjuerna genomfördes från juni till oktober 2011. Avslutningsvis jämfördes svaren på den öppna enkätfrågan med analysen av intervjuerna. Resultat: Vid utbildningsreformens införande fanns pedagogiska motsättningar och didaktiska svårigheter som gav upphov till spänningsförhållanden mellan vårdutveckling, forskning, yrkesspecifika mål och akademiska mål. Spänningsförhållanden framkom också när specialistsjuksköterskorna inte erfor att deras akademiska kompetens tillvaratogs och värderades i vårdverksamheten. När stöd inte fanns för akademiskt lärande uppkom villrådighet och specialistsjuksköterskorna blev ambivalenta över om akademiskt lärande var meningsfullt. För att främja meningsfullt akademiskt lärande framhåller deltagarna betydelsen av samverkan och gemensamma arenor mellan lärosäten och vårdverksamhet där nyttoaspekten med akademiskt lärande tydliggörs. De spänningsförhållanden som framkommer var av både positiv och negativ karaktär.

<p>This Master thesis sets its goals in researching and understanding the structure of different educational systems. The main goal that this paper inflicts is to develop a middleware aiming at translating courses between different educational systems.</p><p>The procedure is to find the meaning of objects and courses from the different educational systems point of view, this is mainly done through processes such as identifying the context, semantics and state of the objects involved, perhaps in different activities. The middleware could be applied, with small changes, to any structured system of education.</p><p>This thesis introduces a framework for using ontologies in the translation and integration of course aspects in different processes. It suggests using ontologies when adopting and structuring different educational systems on an international level. This thesis will, through an understanding of ontologies construct a middleware for the translation process between different courses in the different educational systems. As an example courses in Sweden, Germany and Tajikistan have been used for the mapping and constructing learning goals and qualifications.</p>

La qualité de l’enseignement supérieur en Afrique est une notion très évoquée, pour en relever la dégradation, ou la nécessité d’en voir pourvus les institutions et systèmes d’enseignement.Pourtant le cadre de la transposition du processus de Bologne interroge quant au contenu et à la pertinence de cette notion dans nos pays.Au plan théorique, en rappelant l’importance de l’enseignement supérieur dans le développement socio-économique, puis le contexte de création du processus de Bologne, ainsi que l’analyse de ses principaux textes, nous avons souligné les conditions de déroulement de la transposition du processus de Bologne dans l’enseignement supérieur. Nous terminons cette partie en disséquant l’aspect de la qualité dans l’enseignement supérieur, ainsi que son évaluation en Europe et dans le monde.Dans cette étude, en approchant les acteurs de l’enseignement supérieur, par les méthodes d’entretien et de questionnaires, nous tentons de mettre en lumière la notion de la qualité et son évaluation selon le point de vue de ceux-ci. Ce sont principalement les universités publiques et l’INP-HB qui ont constitué notre terrain d’étude.Les résultats de l’étude nous montrent une qualité de l’enseignement supérieur, en particulier avec les intrants (compétences des enseignants, infrastructures et équipements) comme principales caractéristiques mais également l’insertion professionnelle et l’employabilité, marqueurs de cette qualité. / The quality of Higher Education in Africa is a very evocated word, to say its fallings or the need to see institutions and education systems with it. However, the framework of Bologna Process transposition questions about content and relevance of this notion in our countries.From the theoretical viewpoint, remembering the importance of Higher Education in socio-economic growing, then the context of Bologna Process creation, as well as the analysis of Bologna mains texts, we emphasize the circumstances of Bologna Process transposition in Higher Education. We complete this part dissecting the issue of quality in Higher Education, as well as its assessment in Europe and in the world.In this study, approaching higher education stakeholders, with interviews and questionnaires, we try to put the light on this issue and its assessment according to their view points. It’s mainly the public’s universities and INP-HB, our ground studies.Results shows us a quality of Higher Education, in particular with entrants (teacher’s abilities, infrastructures and equipment’s) as mains characteristics but equally the professional insertion and employability, clue of this quality

This Master thesis sets its goals in researching and understanding the structure of different educational systems. The main goal that this paper inflicts is to develop a middleware aiming at translating courses between different educational systems. The procedure is to find the meaning of objects and courses from the different educational systems point of view, this is mainly done through processes such as identifying the context, semantics and state of the objects involved, perhaps in different activities. The middleware could be applied, with small changes, to any structured system of education. This thesis introduces a framework for using ontologies in the translation and integration of course aspects in different processes. It suggests using ontologies when adopting and structuring different educational systems on an international level. This thesis will, through an understanding of ontologies construct a middleware for the translation process between different courses in the different educational systems. As an example courses in Sweden, Germany and Tajikistan have been used for the mapping and constructing learning goals and qualifications.

Orientador: Maria Antonia Ramos de Azevedo / Resumo: Este trabalho tem como objeto de pesquisa a Assessoria Pedagógica Universitária, em contextos de inovação curricular, considerando que esta inovação atinge o ensino superior carregada de pilares pedagógicos que impactam a docência. Nessa condição, a questão do assessoramento pedagógico emerge como importante função que intenciona a construção de saberes docentes, em espaços coletivos, permanentes e institucionalizados de formação. Logo, os contextos de inovação curricular que definem o recorte deste trabalho revelam-se como elementos intransponíveis à pesquisa, referindo-se ao Processo de Bolonha, focalizando Portugal, e à Universidade Nova, focalizando o Brasil. Neste cenário, a pergunta que orientou a pesquisa foi: Que Assessoria Pedagógica Universitária tem sido construída e como se estrutura seu trabalho em contexto de inovação curricular? Objetivamos identificar seu papel nos contextos ora delimitados e compreender como têm se autoformado para dar conta das exigências que lhe recaem, no que diz respeito à consolidação de modelos curriculares inovadores. Buscando o objetivo, definimos o método que denominamos Mapeamento com Estudo Focalizado, sob abordagem qualitativa. O Mapeamento visa descrever amplamente os dados referentes ao objeto, proporcionando visão panorâmica, descritiva e contextual, enquanto que o Estudo Focalizado busca os significados que os sujeitos atribuem ao objeto, em uma dimensão interpretativa. A análise dos dados se deu por unidades, que visam uma co... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: This work has as object of research the University Pedagogical Advisory in curricular innovation contexts, considering that this innovation reaches higher education loaded with pedagogical pillars that impact the teaching. In this condition, pedagogical advice emerges as an important function, intending to build teaching knowledge in collective, permanent and institutionalized spaces of formation. Therefore, the contexts of curricular innovation defining the outline of this work are revealed as insurmountable elements to the research, referring to the Bologna Process focusing on Portugal, and to Universidade Nova focusing on Brazil. In this scenario, the question that guided this research was: Which University Pedagogical Advisory has been built and how is its work structured in the context of curricular innovation? We aim to identify its role in the delimited contexts and understand how they have been self-trained to manage the demands placed upon them, regarding the consolidation of innovative curricular models. Pursuing the objective, we defined a method we called Mapping with Focused Study, under qualitative approach. The Mapping aims to broadly describe data related to the object, providing a panoramic, descriptive and contextual view, while the Focused Study seeks the meanings attributed to the object by the subjects, in an interpretative dimension. Data analysis was performed by units, aimed at an integrated construction of knowledge about the object, observed in both ... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Doutor