Innovation Pedagogy for Experimental Journalism
At a time of rapid media transformations, it is important to provide media students with relevant competence and skill sets.
New technologies such as computer vision, synthetic speech, virtual reality and drone cameras all prompt disruptions with wide ranging effects. Professor Lars Nyre explores teaching methods that can help students to deal competently with these and with other disruptive technologies in the future. He and his colleagues at the University of Bergen have explored innovation pedagogy for nine years, engaging more than 130 students in the design of around 40 prototypes of journalism and storytelling. In this talk Lars summarizes important insights from his experience with experimental teaching and provides glimpses into future prospects for responsible teaching and learning experiments.
Lars Nyre is a professor of Media Design at the Department of Information Science and Media Studies. His research is oriented to evaluation and prototyping of new media for journalism, and he teaches media and interaction design in Media City Bergen. He heads a project for student active learning funded by DIKU from 2021 to 2023, and was awarded the “Teaching Environment Prize” at the University of Bergen in 2019.
Lars Nyre
University of Bergen, Norway