Lars Berton Forr-Garnvik

Lars is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Nursing and Health Sciences at Nord University. He is trained as an exercise physiologist and holds a PhD in Medicine and Health Sciences from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Lars is course coordinator for SYK1015 Anatomy, Physiology, Biochemistry and Microbiology for first-year nursing students.

He takes a research-informed approach to teaching and works at the intersection of educational practice and higher education research. In his teaching, he combines the roles of educator and researcher, with the aim of developing, testing and refining learning design and teaching methods.

His research interests focus on learning strategies, self-regulated learning and learning design in higher education. Lars draws on complementary pedagogical perspectives, including elements from behaviourist, constructivist and sociocultural learning theories. He continuously experiments with teaching formats, learning strategies and approaches to communication — with one overarching goal: to strengthen student learning and contribute to moving the research frontier in higher education one step forward.