Pedagogical principles at CBS

Purpose
The purpose of making the pedagogical principles explicit is to guide and inspire students, faculty and administrative staff who are involved in designing, implementing or evaluating teaching and learning activities.

Vision
The following vision guides teaching and learning at CBS: Our vision is to create an engaging and challenging learning environment for our students to stimulate their motivation for achieving their full potential for learning.

Pedagogical development
In line with the overall CBS strategy for educational quality, the action area for learning will continue to promote activating and engaging teaching and learning methods. With respect for the differences in disciplines, differences in scope and structure in each study program as well as differences in the individual teacher and student preferences, no one single pedagogical format can or should be promoted. CBS has a strong tradition of variety in teaching and learning methods, in single as well as across programs. Diversity is a valued characteristic and strength.

Learning technologies
Based on CBS’ overall strategy for the quality assurance of its education programs, the action area will continue to promote blended learning as the primary form of learning at CBS. This means that technologies are seen as important for supporting the learning process and not as replacements of face-to-face interaction between faculty and students although fully online teaching can constitute parts of the learning process.

Learning technologies have a strong potential to increase the flexibility of CBS’ programs, support diversity in learning preferences, and motivate students and thereby strengthening students’ learning. Learning technologies also have the potential of increasing student activity and providing better feedback on students’ work and can therefore meet some of the demand for more teaching activities for students.

In addition to supporting and developing existing teaching at CBS, the action area will supplement and enlarge the range of teaching activities by increasing the focus on online courses or course components, thus opening up new groups of students and new ways of learning. The use of different learning technologies must be rooted in the local academic environments and will vary according to the study program. Some study programs will involve inspiring and stimulating technology-aided teaching that takes place primarily at CBS, while other programs will involve activities that take place entirely or partially in the workplace or at home and where the interaction between the teachers and the students or among the students is completely or partly online. The goal is to enhance the use of learning technologies for all study programs in the way that best increases the potential for individual students’ learning.