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Crina-Ioana Damsa

PhD Candidate
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Norwegian
Email c.i.damsa@intermedia.uio.no
Phone +47-22840725
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Visiting address Gaustadalléen 21 Forskningsparken 0349 OSLO
Postal address Postboks 1161 Blindern 0318 OSLO

Research Interests

In my PhD research attention is given the concepts of object-oriented collaboration and shared epistemic agency of students in higher education. Shared epistemic agency is viewed as the capacity that enables collaborative efforts of groups when wroking on shared knowledge objects. Students` learning through collaborative creation of knowledge objects, with support of technology, is investigated in the context of the knowledge creation perspective of learning.

Qualifications

I hold a Bachelor degree in Romanian Language and Literature and a Bachelor and Master degree in Educational Sciences; the latter at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, with a research on the use of semantic information from multiple sources for a group writing assignment. I have experience with teaching at secondary school level, and teaching and student supervision at university level.

Current and prior occupation

  • 2009 - : Research Fellow / PhD candidate at Intermedia, UiO
  • 2006 - 2009 : Researcher, Department of Educational Sciences, Utrecht University, the Netherlands

Project: Knowledge Practices Laboratory (KP-Lab), EU funded IP

  • 2004 - 2006 : Research assistant, Department of Educational Sciences, Utrecht University, the Netherlands

Projects: Improving Reading Fluency in the Elementary School

                         Computerized Representation of Coordination in Collaborative Learning

Memberships

  • ISLS (International Society of the Learning Sciences),
  • EARLI (European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction)
  • EARLI SIG7  - Learning and Instruction with Computers ( JURE coordinator)
  • EARLI SIG17 - Qualitative and Quantitative Approach to Learning and Instruction

Review

  • ICLS 2010 - International Conference of the Learning Sciences, Chicago, USA
  • EARLI SIG6/7 Conference - August 30 - September 1 2010, Ulm, Germany
  • CSCL 2011 - International Conference of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, Hong Kong
  • ICLS 2012 - International Conference of the Learning Sciences, Sidney, Australia
Tags: collaborative learning, object-bound collaboration, shared epistemic agency, higher education, design-based research, qualitative methods

Publications

  • Damsa, Crina; Kirschner,, Paul; Andriessen, Jerry; Erkens, Gijsbert & Sins, Patrick (2010). Shared Epistemic Agency: An Empirical Study of an Emergent Construct. The Journal of the learning sciences.  ISSN 1050-8406.  19(2), s 143- 186 . doi: 10.1080/10508401003708381
  • Pardijs, Mirjam; Andriessen, Jerry; Sins, Patrick; Damsa, Crina & Veerman, Arja (2008). Onderzoek en praktijk, samen verantwoordelijk voor onderwijs. Van twaalf tot achttien.  8, s 34- 3
  • Damsa, Crina (2010). Creating knowledge through object-oriented collaboration - mechanisms, characteristics and technological support, Paper presented at teh Doctoral Consortium at ICLS 2010, Chicago, USA..
  • Damsa, Crina & Ludvigsen, Sten R (2010). Damsa, C.I. & Ludvigsen, S. (2010, August/September). Learning Through Collaborative Creation of Shared Knowledge Objects: Analytic Challenges, Paper presented at.
  • Damsa, Crina; Ludvigsen, Sten Runar & Sins, Patrick (2010). Trialogical work in higher education: Creation and use of shared objects in knowledge creation practices, Paper presented in H. Muukkonen, C. I. Damsa & S. Ludvigsen, Collective object-bound activities: exploring the boundaries of knowledge creation and cultural historical activity theory frameworks, Symposium at the.
  • Damsa, Crina; Sins, Patrick; Strien, Johan & Reijnen, Bert (2010). Learning through collaborative creation of shared knowledge object: Technological support and analytic challenges, In J.Slotta, Content Analysis of Collaboratively Constructed Knowledge Artifacts: Issues and Opportunities for Research, Symposium at ICLS 2010, Chicago, USA..
  • Paavola, Sami; Richter, Christoph; Allert, Heidrun; Karlgren, Klas; Bauters, Merja; Lallimo, Jiri; Kosonen, Kari et al. (2010). DIV4.6 Report on Empirical Research.
  • Damsa, Crina; Hakkarainen, Kai & Bauters, Merja (2009). Relational aspects of shared epistemic agency in knowledge artefact-oriented collaboration of higher education students, In C. Damşa, S. Schrire & A. Edwards,Knowledge-driven collaborative learning practicesin higher education, Symposium at the13thconference of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI), Amsterdam, the Netherlands..
  • Damsa, Crina & Karlgren, Klas (2009). RESEARCH REPORT YEARS 1-3, CLUSTER C: PRODUCTIVE INTERACTION (D 8.4).
  • Damsa, Crina; Kirschner, P.A.; Andriessen, Jerry & Erkens, Gijsbert (2009). Shared Epistemic Agency and Object-Oriented Collaboration in University Education Student Research Activities. Paper presented at.
  • Damsa, Crina; Sins, Patrick & Bauters, Merja (2009). The Knowledge Practices Laboratory technology - Innovative technology for supporting collaborative knowledge creation practices. In C. I. Damsa & P. Sins, From ICT-Supported Pedagogical Practices to Web-Based Technology to Support Reading Instruction: An Interactive Symposium" , Symposium at ..
  • Andriessen, Jerry; Damsa, Crina; Sins, Patrick & Pardijs, Mirjam (2008). From design principles to educational practices: a project in secondary education. In P. A. Kirschner, F. Prins, V. Jonker, & G. Kanselaar (Eds.), International Perspectives in the Learning Sciences: Cre8ing a learning world. Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference for the Learning Sciences: Vol. 3. Developing and applying design principles for knowledge creation practices. (pp. 403 - 404). Utrecht, The Netherlands: International Society of the Learning Sciences, Inc. (ISLS)..
  • Damsa, Crina; Andriessen, Jerry; Sins, Patrick; Allert, Heidrun & Richter, Christopher (2008). Advancing collaborative practices in the scientific community: creating innovative formats for conferencing. Pre-conference event at the Eighth International Conference for the Learning Sciences, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
  • Damsa, Crina; Kirschner, P.A.; Andriessen, Jerry & Erkens, Gijsbert (2008). ). Is it mine, is it yours? It is ours. Shared epistemic agency in collaborative research activities. In P. A. Kirschner, F. Prins, V. Jonker, & G. Kanselaar (Eds.), International Perspectives in the Learning Sciences: Cre8ing a learning world. Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference for the Learning Sciences: Vol. 3 (pp. 262 - 264). Utrecht, The Netherlands: International Society of the Learning Sciences, Inc. (ISLS)..
  • Sins, Patrick; Andriessen, Jerry & Damsa, Crina (2008). Working within innovative knowledge communities as a context for transforming pedagogical practices. In S. Paavola & K. Hakkarainen. Investigating Emerging Technology-Mediated Knowledge. Symposium at the International Conference of the International Society for Cultural and Activity Research. San Diego, USA..
  • Sins, Patrick; Bauters, Merja & Damsa, Crina (2008). Knowledge practices environment: Design and application of technology for trialogical learning. In P. Dillenbourg & M. Specht (Eds.), Times of Convergence: Technologies Across Learning Contexts. Proceedings of the third European Conference on Technology-Enhanced Learning (ECTEL). Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag..
  • Damsa, Crina; Andriessen, Jerry; Kirschner, P.A.; Erkens, Gijsbert & Sins, Patrick (2007). Assessing the development of epistemic agency of students in higher education: an explorative case study. In Csapo, B., Csikos, C. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 12th conference of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI): Fostering agency and knowledge creation: cases from higher education. (pp.178), Graduate School of Education, University of Szeged, Faculty of Arts, Budapest, Hungary..
  • Damsa, Crina; Erkens, Gijsbert & Janssen, Jeroen (2007). Discourse synthesis: a research study on the use of semantic information for collaborative writing in secondary education. In Csapo, B., Csikos, C. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 12th conference of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI), (pp. 713), Graduate School of Education, University of Szeged, Faculty of Arts, Budapest, Hungary..
  • Damsa, Crina; Sins, Patrick; Andriessen, Jerry; Kirschner, P.A. & Erkens, Gijsbert (2007). Assessing the development of shared epistemic agency by students in higher education: an explorative case study. In Toivianen, H., Raitso, F., Kosonen, K., Hakkarainen, K. (Eds.) Proceedings of the Third Finnish Conference on Cultural and Activity Research (FISCAR), (pp. 82).University of Helsinki, Finland.
  • Sins, Patrick; Andriessen, Jerry & Damsa, Crina (2007). Analysis of a trialogical activity by collaborative social scientists: was new knowledge created? Presented at Third Metaphor for Learning (Andriessen, J. & Schwarz, B., eds.). Pre-symposium event at CSCL 2007, New Brunswick, NJ, USA..
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