Published 8 March 2021 In times when the majority of students need to take exams in an online environment, there are many teachers who wish to monitor the exam via camera surveillance in Zoom. There are many different ways to handle this, Karin Bergman from the department of economics has written about how she approaches this. Foto: Patrick on Unsplash We have used Zoom monitoring in a couple of e

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/heres-what-we-did-monitoring-zoom - 2025-07-05

Published 8 March 2021 Photo by Lukas Blazek on Unsplash As a Swedish university, Lund University needs to ensure that students with disabilities find themselves in a comparable situation with other students. Course coordinators or examiners may need to make adjustments so that the digital teaching and examination is accessible to students with a disability. Some students may have a disability tha

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Published 4 March 2021 In a master’s course in commercial theory where the regular exam was conducted in writing in a physical classroom before the pandemic, the re-examinations were conducted orally via Zoom Photo by ThisisEngineering RAEng on Unsplash The course had about 20 students and to emulate the design of the physical exam, the exam was performed in two parts. The students were given diff

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By anna [dot] lothman [at] ehl [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Löthman) - published 4 March 2021 Picture: Unsplash “I’m committed to the students and their education and I want to make the best I can with the help of the tools we have at our disposal”, says Igor Martins, teacher at School of Economics and Management, Lund University. Since Igor is such a popular teacher he was asked to share his best tips

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/tips-using-digital-tools-your-course-teacher-year - 2025-07-05

Published 8 March 2021 At the School of Economics, Per Jochumzen teaches courses on mathematics and microeconomics. He believes that there are major challenges around how to handle cheating in areas where students’ knowledge cannot be tested through, for example, essays. Peter writes: In my opinion, the biggest challenge with home exams is to prevent cheating. This especially applies to situations

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/creating-conditions-avoid-cheating - 2025-07-05

Published 4 March 2021 When using quizzes you might want to adjust the points to make them better match what the student deserve. Photo by Ben White on Unsplash Inflexibility Many of us are using the quiz function in Canvas, both for allowing students to practice and for exams. Canvas uses a rather inflexible way of automatically grading the answers in most cases – either the answers are completel

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/using-quizzes-give-your-students-points-they-deserve - 2025-07-05

Published 4 March 2021 During the pandemic, when the majority of students needed to take exams in an online environment, many teachers wished to monitor the exam via camera surveillance in Zoom. This may only be needed at certain occasions in the future, and there are many different ways to handle this. Here, Karin Bergman from the Department of Economics, has written about how they did it during

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/heres-what-we-did-monitoring-zoom-0 - 2025-07-05

By bjorn [dot] fritz [at] kultur [dot] lu [dot] se (Björn Fritz) - published 4 March 2021 As long as we need to examine remotely, we will need to examine in partly new ways. There are no methods for "translating" an on-campus examination into an identical remote examination, but rather, different forms of examination cope with the transition to varying degrees. Photo by pan xiaozhen on Unsplash Ex

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/better-course-formative-examination - 2025-07-05

Published 4 March 2021 Many teachers would probably agree that it is an art to write good multiple choice questions. Multiple Choice Questions or MCQ are so-called closed questions, where the answering person gets to choose from a number of given answer options instead of formulating an answer themselves. Photo by Dan Asaki on Unsplash Text by Ann-Catrin Johansson, LTH  MCQ When creating your mult

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/art-formulating-mcq-quiz - 2025-07-05

Published 4 March 2021 Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash The pandemic has made us test alternatives to our traditional exam methods, alternatives that work digitally and on remote. Some of these alternatives are worth keeping also when we head back to traditional, on campus, teaching. One thing we have learned the past years is that remote surveillance is problematic (no guarantee it works 100%)

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/digital-open-book-exam-flexible-option - 2025-07-05

Published 12 March 2021 Here's what you should know and what investors look for. Most startup companies need investment at some point in their journey, but a lot of companies struggle to find it. Investors come in many shapes and at different times of the journey, from perhaps early investors like family and friends to business angels and later-stage venture capital. It is not one-size-fits-all, s

https://www.innovation.lu.se/en/article/getting-investment-startup - 2025-07-05

Published 12 May 2021 Ideation is a creative process for generating ideas, lots of ideas. It can help you to think outside-the-box, and is an essential part of the design process. First of all, you need to come up with a problem or challenge that you want to solve. Look around - what problems do you or people in your surroundings encounter? When you've located this and narrowed the problem down, y

https://www.innovation.lu.se/en/article/ideation-increase-innovation-potential - 2025-07-05

By lina [dot] tornquist [at] innovation [dot] lu [dot] se (Lina Törnquist) - published 8 June 2023 Gedea Biotech secures €1.3 million (14 MSEK) to advance its antibiotic-free vaginal infection treatment pHyph towards market launch. Gedea Biotech, part of LU Holding’s portfolio, announced in May that it has raised €1.3 million (14 MSEK) for additional development activities of their product pHyph f

https://www.innovation.lu.se/en/article/gedea-biotech-secures-eu13-million - 2025-07-05

By emma [dot] renman [at] innovation [dot] lu [dot] se (Emma Renman) - published 6 May 2024 Petter Pilesjö, Abdulghani Hasan, and Andreas Persson were tired of the feeling of writing articles and presenting at conferences without anything happening. Learn how they went from research results to making use of their findings by starting the company PluvioFlow. Petter Pilsjö is a Professor at Lund Uni

https://www.innovation.lu.se/en/article/they-started-company-spread-their-research-findings-we-need-get-better-handling-floods - 2025-07-05

By lina [dot] tornquist [at] innovation [dot] lu [dot] se (Lina Törnquist) - published 5 September 2024 The Magical Garden is a pedagogical system for preschool mathematics created around a digital learning-through-play game. The system is based on more than 10 years of research and development. Now, it’s been awarded a proof-of-concept grant. Learning early math is not just fundamental for childr

https://www.innovation.lu.se/en/article/innovative-system-teaching-preschool-maths-receives-sek-38-million-proof-concept-funding-wallenberg - 2025-07-05

Published 25 November 2024 PluvioFlow, a pioneering technology company specializing in flood modeling, announces the appointment of Jonatan Green Brzezinski as its new CEO and Inriver founder Johan Billgren as Chairman of the Board. Simultaneously, the company is launching a pilot program following highly positive market feedback. "I'm excited to join the team and get started," says Jonatan Green

https://www.innovation.lu.se/en/article/pluvioflow-wants-increase-societies-resilience-floods-appoints-new-ceo-and-launches-pilot-program - 2025-07-05

Published 4 December 2024 To address the unique needs of Sweden's innovative and fast-growing startups and scaleups, a new collaborative initiative called Sweden Startup Nation has been established. This initiative aims to serve as an independent, national knowledge hub that enhances understanding of startups, scaleups, and their ecosystem through comprehensive data collection, analysis, and acces

https://www.innovation.lu.se/en/article/new-initiative-strengthen-swedens-startups-and-scaleups - 2025-07-05

By lina [dot] tornquist [at] innovation [dot] lus [dot] se (Lina Törnquist) - published 15 January 2025 Much of the world's infrastructure is made of concrete, which presents a challenge when it cracks and needs repair. Traditional repair methods involve cutting away a large amount of material. Now researchers at Lund University are investigating an innovative solution: using fungi to mend concret

https://www.innovation.lu.se/en/article/sustainable-construction-how-fungi-research-lund-university-could-revolutionise-infrastructure - 2025-07-05

By tiina [dot] meri [at] lth [dot] lu [dot] se (Tiina Meri) - published 16 January 2025 THINK TEAM. Don't strive for perfection, take small steps instead. And dare to ask the really tough questions. Annika Lindström, Innovation Developer at LU Innovation, gives advice to aspiring entrepreneurs. To "succeed" in realising an idea, the most fundamental thing in my eyes is to be truly driven by the de

https://www.innovation.lu.se/en/article/dont-fall-love-your-own-idea - 2025-07-05

Published 27 March 2025 Picture of Johan Johansson and Nahuom Naizghi on site in Italy. Trauma surgeon Dr. Gabriel Börner often saw patients suffer from complications after open abdominal surgery. Inspired by evidence that the small-bites technique could significantly reduce these issues, he founded Suturion in 2018. Now Suturion has entered the first commercial production of SutureTOOL™. Resembli

https://www.innovation.lu.se/en/article/bench-bedside-suturion-enters-first-commercial-production-suturetooltm - 2025-07-05