Våra utvecklingsprojekt

PUPIL

The acronym "PUPIL" stands, in Swedish, for “Pedagogiskt UtvecklingsProject I Labbet”, approximately “pedagogical development project for the laboratory”)

It is a teaching tool intended to teach experimental psychology to students using e-learning methodology thus enabling such even within distance education. The system is completely browser based, and does not require any locally installed software, neither for the person designing the experiments nor the students running the experiments.

PUPIL began as a pedagogical project in 2009 at MIUN. At the time, the psychology students were divided into two types of classes: students studying at the local campus, and students following the education on a distance.

Demonstrating common psychological experiments to local students were no problem, since they could all be placed in a computer lab in front of pre-configured computers. However, the distance students cause significant headache.

At the time, the university granted funding for pedagogical projects aimed at expanding the teachers' toolboxes and an application was made to develop a system for solving the problems experienced with the distance students. The funding was granted, and the psychology division borrowed personnel from the computer science department to conduct the actual system development and programming.

Since that time the PUPIL project has been expanded upon in several stages and is still being actively developed. Our ambition is that the system shall be useable and used both in our education and in our research, and evaluation and validation studies are planned for that purpose.