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Research Centre Centre for Research on Problem-oriented Project Learning

RUC-PPL is an interdisciplinary research centre focused on problem-oriented project learning (PPL), inquiry- and problem-based educational approaches, pedagogical philosophy, university pedagogy, practice, policy, and history. The centre was established in 2018 and brings together researchers and research interests across RUC's departments.

Current research interests include problem- and inquiry-based university pedagogy: concepts, theories, practices, curriculum design; PPL and digital (learning) technologies; group work and collaborative learning in universities; critical and transformative university pedagogy in theory and practice; Higher Education policy and practice.

The aim of RUC-PPL is to contribute to the understanding, development, and critique of Roskilde University’s pedagogy and educational profile, as well as to relevant and related international university pedagogical research. The research centre conducts independent research driven by its members' interests and offers a research community for externally funded projects and researchers, including periodically affiliated external researchers.

Gruppearbejde og problemorienteret projektlæring

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Kasper Anthon Sørensen

PhD thesis: Learning has become dominant in RUC’s educational model

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In his PhD thesis, Kasper Anthon Sørensen investigated how the purpose of RUC's pedagogical approach has changed over time. His hope is that the thesis can help to nuance the debate about the educational purposes of universities.
Kasper Anthon Sørensen: What is the educational purpose of problem-oriented project-based learning?

PhD defence by Kasper Anthon Sørensen

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On Sep. 1 2023, RUC-PPL's first PhD student, Kasper Anthon Sørensen, defended his PhD thesis: What is the educational purpose of problem-oriented project-based learning? 'Reading the discursive construction of the educational aims and purposes of problem-oriented project-based learning in textual introductions from 1974-2018'.
Journal of Praxis in Higher Education

Co-editors on special issue

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Laura Louise Sarauw and Jakob Egholm Feldt from Centre for Research on Problem-oriented Project Learning are co-editors on a special issue of Journal of Praxis in Higher Education on "What is academic citizenship?". See call for papers here: https://journals.hb.se/jphe/announcement/view/15

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Professor Eva Bendix Petersen at the RUC-PPL launch

RUC-PPL Launch

Friday Nov. 2, 2018 the RUC-PPL center was launched by a half-day seminar and subsequently a reception for students and staff from RUC and special invited guests.

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Professor Emeritus, Knud Illeris at the RUC-PPL launch

Knud Illeris gave a talk at the launch of RUC-PPL

Professor Illeris, an internationally recognised scholar, was employed at RUC from 1972, when the university commenced.

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Base at Roskilde University

RUC PPL is an interdisciplinary centre with roots in all RUC's departments: Department overview

Problem-oriented project learning (PPL) is the pedagogical model at Roskilde University. PPL is the basis for all the university programmes - bachelor's, master's and exchange programmes and for our PhD schools.

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Eva Bendix Petersen
Professor // director
+45 4674 2536 / +45 6195 1125
evabp@ruc.dk 

Jakob Egholm Feldt
Professor // deputy director
+45 4674 3331 / +45 5132 5499
feldt@ruc.dk 

Signe Berri
Administrator
+45 4674 2692
berri@ruc.dk