Seminar period 4 2017/2018: Education in retrospect and life-long learning

Here you find instructions for how to prepare for the seminar and the group schedule of the seminar. Before the seminar you also need to write a reflection document and read and comment other group members' reflection documents.

Preparations for the reflection

In this seminar you will reflect on your whole education at KTH and on life-long learning.

• Read the qualitative targets (examensmålen) of the degree of master (120 credits).
• If you study master of science in engineering (civilingenjörsutbildning) you should also read the qualitative targets of the degree of master of science in engineering, further down on the same page as above.
• The last objective in the list is "demonstrate the ability to identify the personal need for further knowledge and take responsibility for his or her ongoing learning". With this objective in mind, look at this video. Links to an external site..
• Read the conference article Student based program development, Download Student based program development,
  describing how a new way of program development has been used in the computer science master's program this year.

• Acquaint yourself with different forms of self-development during the professional career (follow the links and take a look):

  • International associations for professional computer scientists: ACM Links to an external site., IEEE Links to an external site.
  • The Swedish association of graduate engineers Links to an external site. 
  • KTH Alumni
  • Postgraduate education institutes such as STF Ingenjörsutbildning Links to an external site. and Utbildning.se Links to an external site.
  • MOOC courses at KTH
  • Commercial resources for computer scientists such as Microsoft TechNet  Links to an external site.
  • Swedish adult educational associations such as  ABF Links to an external site. and Folkuniversitetet Links to an external site.

Fill in the evaluation questionnaire that will be emailed to you

In a few days you will get an email with a link to the questionnaire. The questions are about some different aspects of your education in retrospect, such as your perceptions of the program integrating course and professional competencies that you should learn, and, for second year students, an evaluation of your education. The questionnaire, which is mandatory and anonymous, should be filled in before May 15, at 23:59. 

Group schedule

Find your group number in the table below and lookup when and where your seminar will be. The seminar will be about 50 minutes, and it is important to be on time. Notice the odd starting time (10 minutes past)! Instructions on how to find the rooms can be found on the webpage Rooms for seminars on the course web.

You can find your spring group number in Gradebook/Omdömen in Canvas (prosamm17) or in Rapp (prosamm16).

Ladok reporting

If you belong to prosamm17 (year 1 of the master's program), you will get the Ladok course component UPP1 (worth 1 higher education credit) reported when you have written your reflection, commented the other group members' reflections, participated in the seminar and filled in the questionnaire (if you have passed seminar 1-3). If you missed anything of the above (you can check this in the Gradebook/Omdömen in Canvas), you need to read the compensatory assignments web page to see what to do. If you belong to prosamm16 (year 2 of the master's program) the Ladok course component for the seminars 2017/2018 is named UPP2 (worth 1 credit).