Teresa Sörö

Teresa Sörö is Head of Continuous Learning at Karolinska Institutet’s Unit for Teaching and Learning. She combines deep pedagogical expertise with a strong strategic sense for emerging trends in higher education. Within the unit’s leadership team, she plays a key role in shaping the direction of continuous learning — a driving force for educational development at KI.

Her work focuses on how learning can be integrated into everyday practice, how educators and leaders can stay curious, connected, and continuously develop their teaching. With a background in nursing, intensive care, curriculum design, and educational leadership, she bridges research and practice through initiatives that make learning accessible, engaging, and meaningful across digital and physical spaces.

My research and developmental interests focus on how we can stimulate and support continuous learning in higher education — how educators learn in everyday practice, through dialogue, reflection, and interaction.

I am particularly interested in how educational cultures, communication, and digital environments enable learning to become an integrated part of work and organizational life.

Areas of special interest include:

• Informal and networked learning
• Learning organizations and educational cultures
• Digital and physical learning spaces
• Psychological safety and trust in learning
• Evidence-informed design for continuous learning

My teaching philosophy is rooted in the belief that learning is relational, continuous, and deeply human. I see teaching as a shared act of exploration. As Head of Continuous learning at KI, I now work to extend this pedagogical vision beyond courses — exploring how colleagues as well as an organisation can learn continuously through digital media, shared stories, and everyday interactions.

“Teaching, for me, is not only about facilitating learning — it’s about creating the conditions where learning naturally continues.”

My work focuses on how we can stimulate and support informal and continuous learning — how learning happens in everyday work, between colleagues, and across digital and physical spaces. I am particularly interested in what enables educators to stay curious and connected, and how structures, culture, and communication can sustain learning over time.

I also have a strong strategic interest in how we learn — how global trends, new technologies, and shifting cultures influence workplace learning and higher education. Within KI’s Unit for Teaching and Learning, our work in continuous learning often acts as a driving force and testing ground for new ideas.

As guest faculty at the Harvard Macy Institute (Transforming your Teaching using Technology, 2015–present) and Monash University (Technology for Education in Clinical Healthcare, 2018–2022), I have had the privilege to teach and collaborate internationally, exploring how digital tools and design thinking can transform learning in health professions education.

I am frequently invited to speak at conferences and institutional events on themes such as:

• Informal and continuous learning
• The Pedagogical Compass — learning as an organization
• Designing virtual learning environments
• Teaching for psychological safety
• The impact of space on learning
• Case-based and interactive teaching