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- Eriksson, Monica, 1952-, et al.
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ARK : modell för att systematiskt arbeta med hållbart arbetsliv inom universitet och högskola (UoH)
- 2018
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Ingår i: FALF 2018 - program och abstraktbok. - Gävle : University Press. ; , s. 123-123
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- BakgrundHållbart arbetsliv är idag ledord för arbetslivets förändrade villkor. Inom UoH i Sverige fanns i slutet av 2017 omkring 75 000 anställda varav ca 35 000 inom forskning och undervisning (UKÄ, 2017). Det är en sektor med stor betydelse för samhällsutvecklingen i Sverige. Arbetsmiljön inom sektorn ställer särskilda krav på personalen. Förvånansvärt få studier har gjorts i Sverige om arbetsmiljön för personal inom UoH. Med förebild från Norge implementeras nu för första gången i Sverige en forskningsbaserad (krav-resurs-modellen) och sektorsspecifik ny modell för att systematiskt arbeta med arbetsmiljön, den s.k. Ark-modellen (arbeidsmiljø- og klimaundersøkelser, se figur) vid Högskolan Väst. Arbetsmiljöverkets föreskrift 2015:4 betonar den organisatoriska och sociala arbetsmiljön, vilket väl tillgodoses i denna modell.SyfteAtt systematiskt och långsiktigt arbeta med arbetsmiljön ur ett främjande, förebyggande och rehabiliterande perspektiv på såväl individ- som organisatorisk nivå för att utveckla förhållanden som bidrar till ett hållbart arbetsliv.MetodGenom KIWEST (Knowledge Intensive Work Environment Survey Target) kartläggs arbetsmiljön utifrån 28 olika dimensioner. Kategorier som belyses är t.ex. sociala, uppgiftsbaserade och organisatoriska resurser samt jobbkrav och tillhörighet till jobbet. Organisatoriska förhållanden mäts med FaktaARK 1 medan genomförda insatser mäts med FaktaARK 2.ResultatKIWEST sändes till all personal med 20 % anställning eller mer. Utav 539 tillfrågade personer svarade 376, vilket ger en svarsfrekvens på 69,8 %. Resultatet visar att specifikt för sektorn är upplevelsen av tidspress samtidigt som arbetet upplevs som meningsfullt och viktigt. Nu följer analyser, planering, genomförande och utvärdering av insatser på olika nivåer inom högskolan. KIWEST-formuläret sänds till personalen med 3-års intervall. I förbättringsarbetet ingår även att granska och utvärdera genomförandet, därvid ingår även metodutveckling. Förbättringsarbetet sätts in i ett större organisatoriskt perspektiv och är en naturlig del i kvalitetssäkringsprocessen och ledningssystemet. ARK-processen förväntas bidra till teoriutveckling av krav- och resursmodellen samt öka kunskapen om arbetsmiljön inom UoH.
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- Loconsole, Annabella, et al.
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Comparing the CDIO educational framework with University West’s WIL certification: do they complement each other?
- 2021
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Ingår i: VILÄR. - 9789189325036 ; , s. 15-16
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Higher education institutions (HEIs) need to continuously improve their quality to prepare the students to the society of the 21st Century. They need to develop efficient ways of collaborating with various partners in the surrounding community. Close ties with business and industry, and diversity among staff and students are necessary, especially within engineering education. An engineering degree should prepare students to develop a wide range of knowledge and skills. These range from technical, scientific, and mathematical knowledge but also soft skills such as teamwork, business skills and critical analysis, which are also central sustainability competences. It is vital that learning for engineers takes place in the context of authentic engineering problems and processes to develop these skills and to put theory into practice. Several initiatives focused on incorporating these skills in higher education exists. CDIO (Conceive, Design, Implement, Operate) is one of the most prominent initiatives within engineering education. CDIO targets the typical tasks an engineer performs when bringing new systems, products and services to the market or the society. The CDIO initiative was created to strengthen active and problem-based learning and improving students' communication and professional skills. CDIO focus on improving practical and work-related skills to better prepare engineering students for their future professional life.University West employs another initiative, Arbetsintegrerat lärande (AIL), which “roughly” translates to Work Integrated Learning (WIL). WIL shares much of the same philosophy as CDIO. All programs at University West are currently undergoing an AIL-certification process. For engineering programs, that have been working with CDIO, it is interesting to compare them. It is currently unclear how they differ. In this study we compare the CDIO educational framework with the WIL-certification through a series of workshops to identify in which areas they overlap and which areas they differ. Would a program that has adopted the CDIO educational framework automatically fulfill the WIL-certification?
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- Lundh Snis, Ulrika, 1970-, et al.
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Enhancing Work-Integrated Learning (Wil) through Strategic Stakeholder Collaboration
- 2023
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Ingår i: ICERI 2023 Proceedings. - : The International Academy of Technology, Education and Development. - 9788409559428 ; , s. 1298-1302
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- For graduates to be able to compete in the global world, study programmes must include knowledge, competences and skills that ensures that students with a higher education degree are ready for both a complex working life and continuous competence development. This demands competencies beyond traditional theoretical knowledge, such as preparing for uncertainty and unknown outcomes. Therefore, it is essential to engage students in learning to learn, i.e., lifelong learning so that the tools and methods for learning in higher education can also be developed through future work.At University West (UW) in Sweden, this means that programmes are developed in collaboration with societal partners to provide a relevant and attractive educational offer. The University West uses the concept of work-integrated learning (WIL) to embrace a sustained/systematic collaboration with strategic partners outside academia. We consider that knowledge is created in the encounter between academia and our strategic partners, through the integration of knowledge, skills and competences acquired both within academia and work life.To achieve a strategic and qualitative development of work-integrated learning (WIL), the Board of University West in 2018 decided to WIL-certify all educational programs including a sustainability perspective and enhance this process by engaging in strategic partnerships with stakeholders from civic society to international companies. The process is a development of existing and future programmes and their pedagogical approach. The WIL certification process has developed into a renewal of the pedagogical approach through a development process based on a lively exchange of experiences from study programme representatives from political science to nursing; and discussions with our strategic partners that benefits both students, staff as well as the strategic partners through competence development and lifelong learning.The purpose of this paper is to describe the lessons learned so far and present a conceptual quality framework for WIL in higher education with a clear connection to sustainable development. Based on the experiences from the development of the institutional WIL project and a Swedish Innovation agency (VINNOVA) research project we aim for a better understanding and insights into how theoretical and practical knowledge can enhance learning both within academia and within strategic partners. Data collection activities include workshops and focus groups with selected participants from the target groups at the university (managers/prefects and teachers) as well as at the collaborative partner organization (managers and supervisors/mentors). Initial findings suggest that the meeting between academia, working life and the surrounding society can ensure that insights, solutions and mutual development are created to meet the challenges society faces. The paper will discuss the methodology of creating work-integrated learning environments that include well-functioning communication and a community of practice (Wenger, 1998) connecting learners, teachers, and other staff with local, regional and national stakeholders.
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- Lundqvist, Thomas, 1967-, et al.
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Comparing the Cdio Standards with the Work Integrated Learning Certification
- 2022
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the International CDIO Conference 18th International CDIO Conference, CDIO 2022 Reykjavik. - : Chalmers University of Technology. - 9789935965561 ; , s. 37-47
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Improving the quality of higher education is an important responsibility of universities and colleges. Several approaches have been developed with the goal of improving the quality of university study programs. In this paper we compare the CDIO (Conceive, Design, Implement, Operate) and the work-integrated learning (WIL) initiatives based on recently completed WIL certifications at University West. Through a series of workshops, the CDIO standards are compared with the aspects and criteria of the WIL certification guidelines, to identify overlapping areas and differences between the two initiatives. The results show that both initiatives overlap but also differ in several aspects. These differences could be useful to strengthen the WIL certification process at University West as well as clarifying the connection between CDIO and work-integrated learning.
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- Lycke, Liselott, et al.
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Building Quality Culture in Higher Education
- 2016
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 19th QMOD-ICQSS Conference, International Conference on Quality and Service Sciences, September 21-23, pp. 939-952, Rome, Italy.. - Lund : Lund University Library Press. - 9789176230862 ; , s. 939-952
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose - Describe an approach to build a quality culture within a Higher Education InstitutionMethodology/Approach Case studyFindings - We show the result of the mapped processes of a Higher Education Institution; Management planning and control, Education, Research and Support, and describe how the mapping was performed, working in cross functional teams. Further on we discuss the result ofthe pilot and the plan for implementation.Originality/Value of paper - A process-oriented approach in a Higher education institutions, with its complexity, creates opportunities for successful quality assurance and control when having an integrated quality assurance system.
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- Lycke, Liselott, et al.
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Building quality culture in higher education
- 2017
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Ingår i: International Journal of Quality and Service Sciences. - 1756-669X .- 1756-6703. ; 9:3-4, s. 331-346
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe an approach to build a quality culture within a higher education institution. Design/methodology/approach: This paper is based on Action research and a Case study. Findings: The authors show the result of the mapped processes of a higher education institution, Management planning and control, Education, Research and Support, and describe how the mapping was performed, working in cross-functional teams. Further on, they discuss the result of the pilot and the plan for implementation. Originality/value: A process-oriented approach in higher education institutions, with its complexity, creates opportunities for successful quality assurance and control when having an integrated quality assurance system. © 2017, © Emerald Publishing Limited.
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- Lycke, Liselott, et al.
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Kvalitetskultur och lärande organisation genom AIL
- 2016
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Ingår i: ViLär 2016, konferens 8-9 december 2016, Vänersborg. - Trollhättan : Högskolan Väst.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Under de senaste decennierna har offentlig sektor pressats att öka effektiviteten, minska kostnaderna och förbättra kvaliteten, bl.a. genom påverkan från New Public Management (NPM). Detta innebär bland annat ökad marknads¬orientering, ökad konkurrens, kundfokus, förbättrad service, decentralisering, större kontroll och ökat fokus på ledarskap (Thylefors, 2016).Universiteten är myndigheter inom den offentliga sektorn och har märkt av effektiviseringskraven och kostnadsjakten. Lärosäten är komplexa professionella organisationer där högutbildade personer arbetar självständigt och styr sitt eget arbete. Det innebär att beslutsfattandet ofta är decentraliserat och att ledarskapet ofta är svagt. Konsekvensen blir organisationer som är svåra att förändra (Mintzberg, 1989).Vid Högskolan Väst pågår det en innovativ process för att bygga upp en kvalitetskultur och ett hållbart, effektivt sätt att arbeta. Syftet är bl.a. kostnadsreducering och effektivisering genom förenkling och transparens. Projektet startade hösten 2014 och ett omfattande arbete med att identifiera och kartlägga processer pågår. Under processkartläggningen deltar medarbetare från olika områden och funktioner inom hela högskolan och hänsyn har tagits till kompetens och personliga kunskaper och erfarenheter.Genom regelbundna träffar i workshop har deltagarna bidragit med personliga och organisatoriska kunskaper när processerna kartlagts. Arbetssättet som använts är AIL-modellen beskriven av Eriksson (Eriksson, 2015). Modellen är ett arbetssätt där teoribaserad kunskap och erfarenhet bearbetas genom produktiv reflektion. Reflektionen utvecklar nytt, djupare lärande som inte¬greras i det pågående arbetet. Bearbetandet av nytt lärande och erfarenhetsba¬serad kunskap bidrar till att ny, djupare, kunskap utvecklas. Denna nya kunskap kan i sin tur integreras i arbetet och blir ny kompetens för deltagarna.Under kartläggningen har komplexiteten i lärosätets verksamhet blivit tydlig och resulterar i en gemensam bild, vilket bidragit till att skapa en helhetssyn genom ökad förståelse för hur detaljerna samverkar. Författarna, som båda varit involverade i projektet i olika grad, har genom sina kunskaper, erfarenheter och roller inom lärosätet insett att projektet kan bidra till ett nytt sätt att arbeta som integrerar kvalitetsarbetet i det dagliga arbetet. Processkartläggningen skapar förutsättningar för att t.ex. integrera kvalitetssäkringssystemet för utbildning på ett tydligt sätt. Författarna är just nu involverade i det arbetet. Arbetssättet och det breda deltagandet har bidragit till stort engagemang och skapar goda förutsättningar för ett nytt processorienterat synsätt där förståelse för verksamhetens processer och komplexitet underlättas. Detta ger i sin tur förutsättningar för att bygga en lärande organisation med tydlig kvalitetskultur.
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- Tano, Ingrid, 1968-, et al.
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A Guide to Develop Quality Assurance System within HEIs
- 2019
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Purpose: Describe and develop a guide to help HEIs(Higher Education Institutions) to develop a Quality Assurance System, which engages both managers, teachers and other coworkers involved in the education process.Design/methodology/approach: Case study, action researchFindings: We highlight the problem to get involvement from teachers and other co-workers working with a Quality Assurance System. Therefore we suggest a guide, which will increase the understanding, engagement and involvement for quality assurance in HEIs.Originality/Value: The guide creates opportunities for successful quality assurance and quality control in HEIs, with its complexity. The guide follows the education process and has a process-oriented approach.Keywords: Higher Education, Quality Assurance System, Quality Management, Learning Meeting, Work Integrated LearningIn September 2016 the Swedish Higher Education Authority presented a new system for quality assurance in higher education (HE) that includes both monitoring and enhancement of quality work. The new national system demands HEIs to develop their own Quality Assurance Systems and adopt the new national system to its own context. This paper describes an internal guide created to support the departments work to expand their Quality Assurance System from just monitoring to include enhancement of quality work in an applied context. The aim of the Guide is to support departments to identify which activities that need to be systematized and what needs to be documented and communicated in order to achieve both monitoring and enhancement of quality work. The Guide follows a common education process in order to assure quality in the most vital activities in the process. This paper will describe the Guide and the connection to the education process and show that the Guide is generalizable to education processes in other HEIs. The paper also suggests that when working with the Guide during so-called Learning Meetings, the organization will adapt Work Integrated Learning when developing new knowledge and hereby building a chain of trust in the organization.
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- Tano, Ingrid, 1968-, et al.
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Comparing Confidence Intervals for Multivariate Process capability Indices
- 2012
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Ingår i: Quality and Reliability Engineering International. - : Wiley. - 0748-8017 .- 1099-1638. ; 28:4, s. 481-495
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Multivariate process capability indices (MPCIs) are needed for process capability analysis when the quality of a process is determined by several univariate quality characteristics that are correlated. There are several different MPCIs described in the literature, but confidence intervals have been derived for only a handful of these. In practice, the conclusion about process capability must be drawn from a random sample. Hence, confidence intervals or tests for MPCIs are important. With a case study as a start and under the assumption of multivariate normality, we review and compare four different available methods for calculating confidence intervals of MPCIs that generalize the univariate index Cp. Two of the methods are based on the ratio of a tolerance region to a process region, and two are based on the principal component analysis. For two of the methods, we derive approximate confidence intervals, which are easy to calculate and can be used for moderate sample sizes. We discuss issues that need to be solved before the studied methods can be applied more generally in practice. For instance, three of the methods have approximate confidence levels only, but no investigation has been carried out on how good these approximations are. Furthermore, we highlight the problem with the correspondence between the index value and the probability of nonconformance. We also elucidate a major drawback with the existing MPCIs on the basis of the principal component analysis. Our investigation shows the need for more research to obtain an MPCI with confidence interval such that conclusions about the process capability can be drawn at a known confidence level and that a stated value of the MPCI limits the probability of nonconformance in a known way.
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- Tano, Ingrid, 1968-, et al.
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Multivariate process capability analysis applied on a thermal spraying process
- 2011
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Ingår i: 25th International Conference on Surface Modification Technologies, SMT25, University West in Trollhättan, Sweden, on June 20-22, 2011..
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- AbstractOur interest in multivariate capability indices (MPCI) is based on a case from a thermal spraying process at Volvo Aero Corporation, Sweden, where they wanted to determine the process capability of a three-dimensional variable. The process can be characterized as a high temperature “spray painting” to protect the sprayed surface against, e.g. heat, corrosion and erosion. Different porosity is desirable depending on what the thermally sprayed coating should protect against. There is a relation between the porosity and the in-flame variables and it would be preferable to secure the porosity during spraying instead as of today, afterwards. Since the three-dimensional, in-flame, variables are correlated one way to do this could be to calculate a MPCI of the in-flame variables. There are a number of different MPCIs described in the literature, but for only a handful of these confidence intervals have been derived. In practise the conclusion about process capability must be drawn from a random sample. Hence, confidence or tests for MPCIs are important. Four different available methods for calculating confidence intervals of MPCIs are being reviewed and compared. Current investigation shows issues that need to be solved before the studied methods can be applied more generally in practice.
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- Tano, Ingrid, 1968-, et al.
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Multivariate Process Capability Indices—A New Principal Component Analysis Approach
- 2011
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Ingår i: ENBIS1- Coimbra, Portogal.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Often the quality of a process is determined by several correlated quality characteristics. In such cases the quality characteristic should be treated as a vector and a number of different multivariate process capability indices (MPCI:s) have been developed for such a situation. One of the existing MPCIs described in the literature is based on principal component analysis (PCA). The idea behind this MPCI is to do a PCA and consider only the first few principle components that explain the main part of the variability. Then one of the well-known univariate process capability indices is applied to each selected principle component and thereafter the univariate process capability indices for the selected principle components are combined to one MPCI. In order define this MPCI the tolerance region for the quality characteristic vector is transformed to a separate specification interval for each principal component. Recently it was shown that this transformation of the tolerance region into separate specification intervals is done in an improper way. And it is far from obvious how to obtain the individual specification limits for each selected principal component when the transformation is properly made. This problem gets complicated for 2 principal components and even worse for more than 2 principal components. We propose a new method based on PCA that circumvent these difficulties for the case when the tolerance region is a hyper-rectangular. This method first transforms the original data in a suitable way. Then PCA is done on the transformed data and it is shown that only the first principal component is needed to deem a process as capable or not at a stated significance level. Hence, a multivariate situation is transferred into a univariate situation and well-known theory for univariate process capability indices can be used to draw conclusions about the process capability. The properties of this method are investigated through a simulation study.
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- Tano, Ingrid, 1968-, et al.
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Relationships between Coating Microstructure and Thermal Conductivity in Thermal Barrier Coatings – A modelling Approach
- 2010
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Ingår i: International Thermal Spray Conference and Exposition, ITCS Singapore 2010. - Düsseldorft : DVS Media. - 9783871555909 ; , s. 66-72
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Fundamental understanding of relationships between coating microstructure and thermal conductivity is important to be able to understand the influence of coating defects, such as delaminations and pores, on heat insulation in thermal barrier coatings. Object-Oriented Finite element analysis (OOF) has recently been shown as an effective tool for evaluating thermo-mechanical material behaviour, because of this method's capability to incorporate the inherent material microstructure as an input to the model. In this work, this method was combined with multi-variate statistical modelling. The statistical model was used for screening and tentative relationship building and the finite element model was thereafter used for verification of the statistical modelling results. Characterisation of the coatings included microstructure, porosity and crack content and thermal conductivity measurements. A range of coating architectures was investigated including High purity Yttria stabilised Zirconia, Dysprosia stabilised Zirconia and Dysprosia stabilised Zirconia with porosity former. Evaluation of the thermal conductivity was conducted using the Laser Flash Technique. The microstructures were examined both on as-sprayed samples as well as on heat treated samples. The feasibility of the combined two modelling approaches, including their capability to establish relationships between coating microstructure and thermal conductivity, is discussed.
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