Department of Education

Contact

Head of Department: Line Torbjørnsen Hilt
Deputy: Astrid Tolo
Head of Administration: Øystein Steine Larsen

Christies gate 12, 3rd floor
Telephone: +47 55584800
E-mail: post@psyip.uib.no

For all questions regarding study programs:
+47 55582710 / studieveileder.psyfa@uib.no

UiB Learning Conference 2026

Picture of a panel discussion on the stage at learning conference 2025

On the Way to Postdigital Higher Education?

Higher education is entering a post-digital era in which the boundaries between physical and digital learning environments are increasingly blurred. Teaching is now multimodal, hybrid, platform-mediated, and influenced by rapid developments in generative AI. These transformations urge us not only to...

News

Bilde av Anne Homme, Gunn Elisabeth Søreide og Yael Harlap

Study quality award to IPED

The Department of Education was awarded the Faculty of Psychology's Study Quality Award 2025 for the course PED116, Pedagogical Competence, where students gain insight into how competence developed through studies in the discipline of education is relevant to and can be used in working life.

Research

Rune Johan Krumsvik, Institutt for pedagogikk, Det psykologiske fakultet, UiB

AI center aims to prevent exclusion in education

The AI center initiative, Digital Learning Communities AI Centre, led by Rune Johan Krumsvik, aims to increase AI competence in education. The researchers will build on findings about how AI can be used as a sparring partner in student assessments

News

New SoTL journal

We are very happy to announce the opening of our new open-access journal, the Norwegian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (NorSoTL).