Educational background:
- Ph.D. in Didactics (teachers`use of ICTs in ESL). Dissertation: The Teacher as Interface: Beliefs, Practices, Appropriation
- Masters (Cand.Phil.) with subjects Norwegian, English, and Literature
- Visiting scholar at University of California, Irvine, fall 2003 (with Professor Mark Warschauer)
- Courses (University level) in internet communication and web techniques
Employment history:
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2013 - 2016: Director, ProTed Centre of Excellence in Education
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2010 - 2013: Vice Dean of Studies, Faculty of Education
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2008 - : Associate and (from 2012) Professor at the Department of Teacher Education and School Research (ILS)
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2004 - 2008: PostDoc at InterMedia, Center for Technology, Learning & Design (now merged with iPED)
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1999 - 2003: Ph.D student at Department of Teacher Education and School Development
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1979 - 1999: Senior High School Teacher
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1999 - 2008: National adviser for integrating ICT in correctional education
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1985 - 2014 Consultant for The Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training (Developing exams, curricula, integration of ICT)
Research interest:
Teaching and learning ESL, collctive cognition, human interactions in technology-rich environments, sociocultural and activity theoretical perspectives on learning and didactics, language, speech communities, and communication change. Wikis as a way of bridging individual, small group, and larger collectives engaged in thinking, learning, and working.
Current activities:
Sabbatical: a) transformative agency and a suitable unit of analysis; b) Piotr Galperin's contributions to cultural-historical persepctives
Main administrative tasks:
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Previously: Vice Dean (studies), of Faculty of Education; Director of ProTed, Center of Excellence in Education
Teaching:
- Practical Pedagogical Education (PPU), English subject didactics
- Masters level; fundamental concepts (EDID4010) and Assessment (EDID 4030)
- Ex.Paed.
- PhD coursesHigher education and employment history
Completed projects:
Post. Doc projects: Complex challenges - collective responses
- CMC: Competence and media Convergence
- PLICte. Productive Learning in ICT rich Environments
- TWEAK: tweaking Wikis for Education and Knowledge Advancement
Other functions:
- Professor II at University College of Southeastern Norway
- Member of The International Society of the Learning Sciences
- Member of The Society of Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE)
- Meber of EuroCALL
- Member of the organizing committee for the International Conference on Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, CSCL, Hong Kong, July 2011
- Reviewer for a number of international publications (ca 30 papers per fall 2010)