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By exploring the concept of literacy the book Literacy practices in late modernity aims at building a bridge in today's debate about what children should learn at school.
Louise Mifsud has researched how the introduction of mobile technologies in the classroom challenges conceptions of what constitutes a proper learning activity.
The project has investigated new forms of storytelling with a focus on the use of digital storytelling for self-representation.
The article 'Weathering wikis: Net-based learning meets political science in a South African university' is the most cited from the international journal Computers and Composition in the last 5 years.
MIRACLE project researchers Alfredo Jornet and Cecilie Jahreie have been awarded Best Paper contribution at the ReLIVE11 conference.
This wide-ranging and ambitious collection of largely project-based contributions addresses developments within mediated communication with reference to the core notion of multimodality.
Academics and researchers at the Department work on a wide range of topics within the field of special needs education. According to their research interests they can form research groups to build capacity, exchange views and opinions on various research topics and methods and conduct highly professional studies.
Research group “Learning, mastery and quality of life for children at risk” is conducting an overall comprehensive survey as a part of a project “Individual pupil-teacher dialogues”
The research group HEIK (Higher Education: Institutional dynamics and Knowledge cultures) has recently started a new three-year project focused on higher education in the Western Balkans. The project is funded through the NorGlobal programme by the Research Council of Norway.
The YOUrban film "Immaterials: Light painting WiFi" explore and reveal what the immaterial terrain of WiFi networks looks like and how it relates to the city.
Information has become more easily available and new types of digital knowledge representations have emerged. CHANGE will explore design, use of and learning with technology-based environments in schools, museums and workplace settings.
Post doc Øystein Gilje at the faculty's Department of Education Research has been honoured with the New Scholar Award 2010 for his article published in Written Communication in October 2010.
The book Exploring Digital Design: Multi-Disciplinary Design Practices represents novel perspectives and analyses about the diversity of contemporary digital design practices in which commonly shared aspects are interpreted and integrated into different disciplinary and interdisciplinary conversations.
Unstable political situation in Palestine has affected all groups of population including the most vulnerable group – children. Underachievement has always been a problem in Palestinian schools but lately the situation has become unmanageable. There is a risk of further consequences for the society given the growing rates of drop outs. What contributes to the problem and how to solve it? This is the topic of PhD dissertation of Safwat Y. Diab at the Department of Special Needs Education.
Norwegian 15- year olds have become better at Reading, and there is also marked progress in Mathematics and Science. These are the main findings in the 2009 PISA study.
Fengshu Liu has been awarded national research funding for a project to examine generational changes and continuities as well as cross-cultural differences and similarities in young people’s gender conceptions and gender practices in China and Norway.
This collection of articles highlights the top stories so far from the LOITASA project, which explores the importance of the language of instruction for learning outcomes in African schools.
Thomas de Lange defends his PhD thesis Technology and Pedagogy: Analysing Digital Practices in Media Education 22 November.
Learning Across Sites brings together a diverse range of contributions from leading international researchers to examine the impacts and roles which evolving digital technologies have on our navigation of education and professional work environments.
Cecilie Flo Jahreie defended her PhD thesis Learning to teach. An activity-theoretical study of student teachers’ participation trajectories across boundaries September 6th - InterMedia congratulate!
Collaboration, knowledge, agency - what does it takes to be a successful group of university learners?
Anders Mørch talked about InterMedia research on e-learning at work in Hong Kong
Anniken Furberg defended her thesis Scientific Inquiry in Web-based Learning Environments. Exploring technological, epistemic and institutional aspects of students' meaning making, Febuary 5th - InterMedia congratulate!
New publications about intervention studies in secondary education.
PhD student Yngve Refseth studies the implementation of the XO-laptop of the "One Laptop Per Child"- foundation (OLPC).