Spill og simulering: Nyanser og fellestrekk i forskningen
Hvordan nærmer ulike fagmiljøer seg digitale spill og simulering i forskningssammenheng? Dette er temaet for et internseminar med forskere fra InterMedia, Institutt for medier og kommunikasjon og Institutt for informatikk .
Seminaret har to målsettinger: Først vil det tegne opp et bilde av hvordan IMK, IME og IFI har nærmet seg spill og simulering i forskningssammenheng. Deretter sikter det mot å skissere enhetenes hensikter med dette forskningsområdet fremover for på denne måten å identifisere nyanser og fellestrekk, samt skissere noen mulige strategier for videre individuelle og felles arbeider.
Initiativet skjer innenfor rammene av satsingen Digital design ved UiO, og seminaret finner sted 26. mai ved InterMedia.
Combining wiki, blog and mobile phone: More than 100 students have now used GIDDER in connection with their visits to Astrup Fearnley Museum
Gidder is a research design project that combines wiki, blog and mobile phone technologies to support high school students interpreting works of contemporary art across two settings, classroom and museum. Students use their own mobile phones to blog interpretations of artworks in a specially designed wiki. Curator Hanne Beate Ueland at Astrup Fearnley Museum has collaborated on the design of the prototype, and has developed the educational material for the wiki. By now more than 100 students from three different high schools have tried GIDDER at Astrup Fearnley Museum.
Pictures from the museum context and the post visit context.
Anniken Larsen Furberg co-authors article on the usage of mobile phones in The Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy
Putting mobile literacies into focus
In a new article in Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy(Digital Kompetanse)Anniken Larsen Furberg and co-authors Annita Fjuk, Hanne Cecilie Geirbo and Per Helmersen investigates how the transformative relationship between people, culture and artifacts is vital for understanding digital literacies.
This argument is approached through introducing the concept of mobile literacies which is indivisibly related to usage of mobile phones in cultural practices. Case studies concerning mobile phone usage in Bangladesh show that SIM-switching and missed calls have developed into powerful artifacts in people's lives through facilitating social needs and providing certain norms of communication. The article thus illustrates central socio-cultural aspects that we find important to consider in understanding digital literacy.
The "Working the Web" workshop at Kibla in Slovenia has been well received, and to our surprise covered on the Slovenian TV.
'Working the Web' is a joint initiative from InterMedia and KIBLA, both partners in the GRIG project. The three day event in Slovenia is designed to help participants conceptualize the web as a communicative space. They will be introduced to a variety of web sites, including those on electronic art. From InterMedia participate Andrew Morrison, Synne Skjulstad and Idunn Sem. Workshop program
InterMedia Lab staff Jeremy Toussaint and Per Christian Larsen reports from The NAB 2008. See their day-by-day reports from seminars on and excibitions of new digital media technology and their reflections on relevance to our research and development work at InterMedia here.
Carsten Sørensen arbeider med å utvikle et samtalekonsept for TV og podkast som skal formidle dagens forskning innen filosofi, etikk og vitenskapshistorie.
NRK viser formidlingsproduksjon fra InterMedia
Carsten Sørensens prosjekt Locke bruker TV-dialogen som metode til utadrettet forskningsformidling. Filosofiens historie gjøres aktuell ved å ta utgangspunkt i en av det 20. århundrets sentrale tenkere og se utvalgte temaer i et nåtidig og historisk perspektiv.
Sørensen har samarbeidet med forskere fra Filosofisk institutt ved UiO og har i tillegg produsert en pilot i tre deler om den tyske filosofen Hannah Arendt. Pilotserien ble sendt i Kunnskapskanalen, NRK1 i april 2008.
Programmene er produsert i universitetets TV-studio ved InterMedia i Forskningsparken, og er finansiert ved UiO's formidlingsmidler.
Det EU-finansierte utviklings- og forskningsprosjektet SCY: Science Created by You er InterMedias siste tilslag i EUs forskningspott. Prosjektet hadde oppstart 1. mars. Prosjektleder er Anders Kluge.
In this article Ingeborg Krange and Sten Ludvigsen analyze and discuss possibilities and limitations in students' conceptual knowledge construction while using computer-based 3D models designed to support science. They find that although students manage to solve given problems they still have difficulties to combine concepts into larger conceptual units. By comparing different educational settings it becomes obvious that this most of all has to do with how the school handle curriculum based problems.
The most vital issue for the school as an institutional actor seems to be to complete the task. In this sense conceptual issues play a secondary role. The authors argue that a redesign of the computer based 3D models cannot change the school's way of handling curriculum based problems. However, a redesign might contribute to bring forward conceptual issues and help students to link concepts into a greater whole. Krange and Ludvigsen suggest that including additional aspects related to the curriculum based problems will make it likely that conceptual issues also will be discussed as part of the problem solving processes.
Computer games and learning has become an important topic for research during the last few years. Research and theorizing on games have particularly circled around two issues. The first is how computer games are effective learning environments and thereby constitute interesting learning design models. The second is how games themselves can be used for learning, particularly how games can be used to situate learning in regard to more realistic and authentic problem solving.
Day 1: Conference
With key note speaker David Shaffer and Jonas Linderoth, Simon Egenfeldt-Nielsen, Morten Dæhlen and Caroline Pelletier
Day 2: Workshop
With discussants David Shaffer and Caroline Pelletier. The best workshop papers will be selected for publication in a special issue of the Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy. Deadline for submitting abstract of paper: March 15th.
More information about topics, program, participants and registration here.
Kick-off for a new EU financed project on technology-enhanced learning
InterMedia is partner in a research project that shall develop an adaptive system for media rich learning environments in science education.
At 3-5 March all partners in the research and development project Science created by you (SCY) are gathered at the University of Twente to kick off.
SCY is a multi-disciplinary large-scale research and development project financed by EUs 7th framework programme within 'Digital Libraries and technology enhanced learning', a part of the first ICT call.
InterMedia will contribute extensively in the project, both with research, technological architecture and design, and will head one of the work packages.
InterMedia, ILS og Naturfagsenteret samarbeider om en IKT-basert læringsomgivelse for naturfag
ElevProdukt: Elevproduserte læringsobjekter i naturfag
Læring av naturfaglige emner er for tiden et hett tema. ElevProdukt er et prosjekt som skal studere vilkår for læring av naturfag ved å utvikle og studere bruk av en IKT-basert læringsomgivelse. Dette er en læringsomgivelse som skal tilrettelegge for kildesøk, simulering gjennom interaktive modeller og elevers egenproduksjon.
I dette prosjektet samles kompetanse innen IKT og læring av naturfaglige emner på tvers av fag og enheter ved to fakulteter ved Universitetet i Oslo. Prosjektet er et samarbeid mellom enheter ved Utdanningsvitenskapelig fakultet og Matematisk-naturvitenskapelig fakultet; InterMedia, Institutt for lærerutdanning og skoleledelse (ILS) og Naturfagsenteret.
The group brings together leading research and development competences in digital media and special needs education within the field of teaching resources for teacher education in developing countries.
The focus is on the development of competence skills and teaching resources to support the inclusion of pupils with disabilities. Teaching recourses includes both methods for teaching and ICT/digital media recourses.
The establishment of the group formalises and strengthen an already existing collaboration through the following three projects:
Capacity Building in Teacher Education for Children with Disabilities and Special Needs (Funded by NUFU, 2007-2011)
Developing Teacher Education for the Inclusive School (Funded by NORAD, 2006 - 2007)
Challenges to reflection in special needs education (Funded by Flexible Learing, University of Oslo, 2005-2006)
Through these projects the group has developed a DVD-based teaching resource for teachers education titled Teachers for all. The DVD material and the universally designed web based application is developed at InterMedia Lab.
EssayCritic: A Pilot Study of a Computer Supported Essay Critiquing System
[Jan Are Otnes] has delivered his master thesis EssayCritic: A Pilot Study of a Computer Supported Essay Critiquing System to the Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo.
This predominantly qualitative case study has been concerned with the use of a student essay critiquing system, named EssayCritic, in a collaborative setting with 26 students aged 16-17, at a Norwegian high school. It was done in close co-operation between InterMedia at the University of Oslo, Norway and Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong.
The goal has been to study how EssayCritic can help students writing essays in general, in particular the effect of collaboration in pairs. EssayCritic uses Latent Semantic Analysis, LSA, to compute feedback (critique) by comparing the students' essays toward model essays collected and prepared by teachers or domain experts.
All the students found the system useful in the role of providing critique, whereas the praising part was slightly less appreciated. The suggested sub themes were especially beneficial for the low-achieving students because it had the effect of stimulating those who experienced writing block. For all the students organization of the essay was under-prioritized, even if this was stressed prior to the writing. The focus group organized their work in two different roles, "driver and navigator," which can be classified as collaboration pattern, and the majority of the students were positive towards working in pairs. Feedback from the students about collaboration frequently included terms like stimulating "different ideas" and "discussion".
In sum, EssayCritic provided a valuable feedback for the students to reflect upon their essay and to give them suggestions for further writing. The system affords collaboration and was a positive element for the students when they wrote their essays. It seems like EssayCritic is especially useful for low-achieving students, but also high-achieving students seems to appreciate the use of EssayCritic, despite the fact that they also were critical to its use (believed it hindered individual creativity).
Multidisciplinary action to meet challenges in math learning
There is a raising concern for knowledge in mathematics and quests for more adequate pedagogical approaches to math learning.
A new multidisciplinary research group at the Faculty of Education, Design of Mathematics (DEMA), has been established to meet these challenges. The group will develop experimental design and new approaches to the use of ICT in math learning. An important goal is to generate innovative project proposals and ideas.
Guiding "cut and paste": Tweaking wikis for education and advancement of knowledge
New research project investigates future practices in today's schools
Previous research has documented that teachers tend to have a rather passive role in ICT based learning. We know that pupils cut and paste a lot when they use ICT. However, we do not know much about how such resources should be guided. How can teachers help - and be facilitated to help - their pupils to find, interpret, choose, integrate, and further develop web-based information?
The project acronym TWEAK means to adapt or redesign existing technology to particular needs. The TWEAK project will design new functions in a wiki to support such processes, thereby making the wiki into a learning environment.
A wiki is a website or similar online resource which allows users to add and edit content collectively and thereby supports collaborative authoring and knowledge production.
The project will focus on functions in the wiki that support the cooperation processes in knowledge development. It will do so by focusing on task design and design of specific functions such as categorizing, scrapbooking, logging, getting direct feedback, etc.
TWEAK is a multidisciplinary project that involves both educational science, informatics and communication design. The ultimate goal is to develop and describe good models for innovative use of ICT in educational practice.
Two upper secondary schools in Oslo participate in the project, both in the development and use of the wiki.
Practices and tool use in creation and transformation of shared knowledge artifacts. 16 January at InterMedia
KP-Lab case studies seminar
At 16 January InterMedia hosts a KP-Lab case studies seminar. KP-Lab is a EU-funded research project that investigates practices and tool use in creation and transformation of shared knowledge artifacts. Find more at the KP-Lab website.
InterMediaforskere forteller om nye muligheter og nye utfordringer innen IKT og læring på Faglig-pedagogisk dag 3. januar
Morgendagens praksiser i dagens skole
InterMedia utvikler og forsker på bruk av lærings- og samarbeidsteknologier. På årets Faglig-pedagogisk dag presenterer tre forskere ved InterMedia resultater fra forskning innen IKT, læring og samarbeid i skolen.
Hva blir spørsmålet når svaret er wiki?
Kunnskapssamfunnet krever kollektiv kunnskapsproduksjon og samarbeidsteknologier som gjør dette mulig. Men i skolen har vi en lang tradisjon for individuell oppgaveløsning og individuell vurdering. Må vi tenke nytt om oppgaver og hvordan vi forholder oss til kunnskap? Vi illustrerer disse spørsmålene med elevers bruk av wiki - en teknologi som støtter kollektiv kunnskapsproduksjon. Presentasjonen springer ut av TWEAK-prosjektet - en utforskning av morgendagens praksiser i dagens skole.
Pensumforpliktende lærerintervensjoner i dataskapte 3D modeller og naturfaglig forståelse hos elever
Foredraget bygger på prosjektet EduAction, en studie av ungdomsskoleelevers problemløsning i naturfagsundervisning når de tar i bruk en dataskapt 3D-modell. Hvordan faget får plass i problemløsningsprosessene vil være en sentral del av forelesningen.
11.15-12.00, Rom U30, Helga Engs hus
Forsker Ingeborg Krange
Welcome to the open research seminar Collaborative Design, where Gerhard Fischer (professor, University of Colorado) and Dag Svanæs (associate professor, NTNU) will present new work, and researchers from The Department of Informatics and InterMedia will present ongoing projects.
Time: 9.30 - 12.00, December 21th
Place: InterMedia (Infra)
Programme Gerhard Fischer: Democratizing Collaborative Design: Meta-Design, Social Creativity, and the Long Tail
Dag Svanæs: UTOPIA Does not Scale: Organizational and Cultural Obstacles to Collaborative Design
Tone Bratteteig: Extending the Designer-User Boundary with User Generated Content
The seminar is a joint activity between InterMedia and The department of Informatics, and takes place in conjunction with the thesis defence of Jo Herstad. At December 20th he will defend his thesis Circumspective use of equipment: The case of bicycle messengers. Supervisor: Anders Morch, InterMedia.
KIKK graduates present their work at December 18th
Agile programming and participation design
Damir Nedic and Espen Olsen have submitted the joint master thesis Customizing an Open Source Web Portal Framework in a Business Context: Integrating Participatory Design with an Agile Approach at the Department of Informatics.
They will defend their thesis after an open presentation of their project at InterMedia
Open presentation:
Time: Thuesday 18th of December 10:30 - 11:30
Place: InterMedia, Infra
Summary
In this thesis, we have investigated how an open source web portal can be used in a business context. This investigation required development of components for a web portal to meet the company's needs.
The motivation for this thesis was to design a web portal to organize the rapid growth of information and to improve the communication both internally and externally. The company that we collaborated with experienced expansion of the working staff, as well as in the customer base. Because the requirements for the web portal were uncertain, the development demanded a lot of communication and collaboration between us, as developers, and the company. With help from the Agile methodology and Participatory Design we were able to clarify the requirements and to overcome the problems during the development.
We have especially utilized Agile's Extreme Programming method as the developing technique. We argue that by applying this method in the given context, we attained the necessary foundation needed for the successful realization of the project. In addition, in situations where we supplemented it with techniques from Participatory Design; we gained a better understanding of the components to be made.
InterMedia hosted the recently held CMC summing-up conference
Coming to Terms with 21st Century Practices: ICT, Competence and Cultural change
November 22-23 the University of Oslo invited to a conference on some of the most current issues concerning ICT, competence and cultural change in the 21st Century.
The conference questioned how we are coming to terms with new social and cultural practices involving new information and communication technologies.
CMC: Competence and Media Convergence, is a large-scale strategic research initiative at the University of Oslo (2004-2007). InterMedia has coordinated the CMC activities.
CMC er en stor og tverrfakultær satsing ved Universitetet i Oslo, som 22-23 november markerer sin avslutning med en internasjonal konferanse på campus. UniForum har intervjuet koordinator Trond Eilif Hauge om CMC-satsingen og konferansen.
KP-lab writing workshop in conjunction with the CMC conference
Workshop: Empirical, Theoretical and Technological Perspectives on Knowledge Creation Practices November 21st -23rd November
At November 21st - 23rd InterMedia hosts a writing workshop on "Empirical, Theoretical and Technological Perspectives on Knowledge Creation Practices". This joint book project gathers researchers from the EU-funded research project Knowledge Practices Laboratory (KP-Lab).
The workshop is held in conjunction with the CMC conference.
The workshop contains contributions to explore:
Cutting edge knowledge practices, to better understand individual and collaborative learning and knowledge advancement in non-routine activity and open-ended problems
Methods or techniques that aim to integrate and study knowledge practices and explore issues like units of analysis and timescales in knowledge advancement processes.
Theories and perspectives to better understanding of knowledge practices, propose new models of knowledge practices, adopting theory for the purpose of design, develop conceptual models KP-Lab technology.
Design and implementation of innovative technology to enhance knowledge practices. This includes design and evaluation of tools and infrastructure for cutting edge knowledge practices, design of domain-specific knowledge artifacts or transformation of knowledge artifacts, end user development and appropriation of tools for the purpose of learning, design and development.
InterMedia hosts a Virtual doctoral school workshop for the Kaleidoscope Network of Excellence, November 20-21 Interaction Analysis in Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL)
At November 20-21 InterMedia hosts a doctoral workshop on Interaction Analysis in Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL).
Invited speakers are Dr. Åsa Mäkitalo (Göteborg University), Prof. Anne Edwards (University of Oxford) and Prof. Jan Svennevig (University of Oslo).
InterMedia har vært sentral bidragsyter i satsingen Fleksibel læring ved Universitetet i Oslo
15. og 16. november oppsummerer konferansen Ringer i vann erfaringene med den 5 år lange satsingen med fleksibel læring ved Universitetet i Oslo. InterMedia er et av støttemiljøene til fleksibel Læring. På konferansen presenteres flere prosjekter hvor InterMedia har bidratt med produksjon av medierike lærings- og formidlingsomgivelser.
Cecilie Elise Webb forteller om Hovedøya, et samarbeidsprosjekt mellom InterMedia og Naturhistorisk museum. Prosjektet skal utvikle Hovedøya som læringsarena ved bruk av medierike, nettbaserte læringsressurser. Vi bidrar med dokumentarer for fjernsyn om øyas natur og kultur, video for streaming, interaktive kart og tidslinjer, animasjoner, CMS (innholdssystem), informasjonsdesign og grafisk design.
Siri Wormnæs snakker om hvordan man kan utfordre lærerstudenters for-forståelse, i et innlegg som reflekterer over autentiske klasseromssituasjoner. Hun bygger presentasjonen sin på produksjonene "Teachers for All - Responding to challenges in inclusive Classrooms with focus on methodology" og ".... with focus on inclusion." Produksjonene er laget ved InterMedia og er basert på opptak i Uganda og Kenya.
Gry Anita Hemsing's innlegg "Location Roma: Et møte mellom kamera og kulturhistorie" en knyttet til en svært medierik web-aplikasjon om politikk og religion i Roma som InterMedia har produsert sammen med IKOS.
I prosjektet SARC - Steinalderen på nett, har InterMedia bidratt med CMS (innholdssystem), informasjonsdesign og grafisk design. Oppdragsgiver her er Institutt for arkeologi, konservering og historiske studier, og det er prosjektleder Ane Ohrvik som presenterer prosjektet på konferansen.
I sesjonen Wiki og blogg i læring presenterer Ingvild Andreassen Åpen arkeologi. Dette er et prosjekt som skal ta i bruk wiki- og bloggverktøy. Dette er også et utviklingsprosjekt hvor InterMedia bidrar med å tilrettelegge wiki som plattform, bruk av blogger, informasjonsdesign, bruk av ontologier, grafisk design, formidling av arkeologisk prosesser, kobling til museets forskningsdatabaser og tilrettelegging for elevarbeid.
European researchers gather at InterMedia to discuss design of learning environments in mathematics Workshop: ICT and Mathematics - designs, data collections and analysis
At Nov 8th - 9th leading European researchers gather at InterMedia to discuss designs of ICT based learning resources in mathematics and the study of students' use of these applications.
The fourth generation web at InterMedia is launched
November 7th 2007: This web opens up for a closer relationship between activities within InterMedia, and between us and our partners, colleges and the public. Read more
Ambivalence Towards Convergence. Digitalization and Media Change InterMedia researchers Andrew Morrison and Synne Skjulstad contribute with the chapter 'Talking Cleanly about Convergence'. The book is one of several publications resulting from the strategic program CMC - Competence, Media and Convergence at the University of Oslo. The editors are Tanja Storsul and Dagny Stuedahl.
Concepts of convergence and converging processes have triggered considerable attention and activities in media research during recent years. This has been an inspiring context for the discussions and analyses presented in this book.
The book elucidates a variety of understandings related to the concept of convergence, and at the same time reflects on the analytical advantage of the concept. The contributions discuss the impact of media digitalization and the degree to which the prospects of convergence have been realized. The studies range from investigations of institutional and regulatory change within media and cultural institutions, to analysis of communicative genres and social practices related to digital media.
Editors: InterMedia researchers Trond Eiliv Hauge & Andreas Lund, together with Jon Magne Vestøl at the Departement of Teacher Education and School DevelopmentUndervisning i endring - IKT, aktivitiet, design
The book addresses the role of technologies, the relationship between individual and collective learning, the role of the teacher, and how we can design for productive learning. The purpose of this book is to connect emergent educational practices with a sociocultural perspective on learning and teaching. Through a series of case studies this book seeks to first analyze various aspects of classroom practices and then moves on to discuss how such analysis can inform teachers' designs for learning. The focus is on classroom activities more than pedagogy or didactics in general.
Grenseflater - exploring how technology opens up new arenas for learning
Oct. 12th - Nov. 18th, 2007, Gallery Sverdrup, University Library.
Tapet is an interactive installation where landscape, sound, a mediated performance and programmed logic creates a multimodal experience of presence. The position and movement of the user take part in a spacial, audiovisual interface.
The exhibition also consists of examples of ITUs development projects, and is put on in relation to ITUs 10 year anniversary.
The installation is developed by Idunn Sem (idea and design), Martin Havnør (technical design and implementation) and Inger-Reidun Olsen (coreography and dance), and is part of InterMedias MULTIMO project.
Synne Skjulstadco-writerAesthetics at Work. A multi-disiplinary research project at UiO investigating aesthetication.
In this new anthology Synne Skjulstad looks at clashing conceptions of the Web and how a communication design perspective can transverse such positions. She suggests that we look at websites as a matter of communication design - where form, function and aesthetics are blended in rich web expressions.
Her article is one of seven contributions in Aesthetics at Work (Unipub 2007), that looks at art and aesthetics in contemporary culture. The anthology presents the results of a multi-disiplinary research project at the University of Oslo investigating aesthetication.
InterMedia produces a dvd for Bredtved Kompetansesenter
Språkpakken er en DVD som tar for seg språkvansker og språkutvikling blant barn og unge. Programmet er utviklet i faglig samarbeid mellom Bredtvet kompetansesenter, Institutt for spesialpedagogikk ved Universitetet i Oslo og InterMedia, som også har stått for den tekniske produksjonen.
DVDen ble lansert på Holmenkollen Hotell i forbindelse med konferansen "Språkløftet" som ble arrangert av Bredtvet kompetansesenter i slutten av september 2007.
Network of competence and research for ICT in education.
When it comes to putting ICT in education on the political agenda, ITU has played a crucial part. Their research efforts in this area and networking abilities are significant both nationally and internationally, and has made them an important partner for us at InterMedia.
In his speech at ITU's 10 year anniversary, InterMedia Director, Sten Ludvigsen, congratulated ITU for their contribution in establishing projects and research environments that are now positioning themselves internationally: - Without ITU's modern, topical agenda and financial profile, a lot of these projetcts and environments would never have taken form.
Prosjektet Science Created by You (SCY) skal i kontraktsforhandlinger med EU i september, etter å ha blitt rangert som nummer 1 av 71 innsendte søknader innen området 'Digital Libraries and technology enhanced learning' i den første utlysningen fra IKT-programmet i EU's 7. rammeprogram.
InterMedia er en sentral forskningspartner i et planlagt forskningsprosjekt som skal utvikle et adaptivt system for rike læringsomgivelser. Systemet skal støtte samarbeid og samvirke mellom elevenes egne bidrag og faktainformasjon. Sammen med forskere fra 10 andre europeiske land og Canada skal InterMedia arbeide i fire år med utvikling og utprøving av nye ideer for læring med teknologi.
Prosjektet er en såkalt IP (Large-scale Integrated Project), og skal ledes fra Universitetet i Twente.
I SCY-prosjektet skal elever arbeide individuelt og kollektivt med å utføre "oppdrag" knyttet til matematikk, vitenskap og teknologi. Oppdragene skal formes som samfunnsrelevante forskningsspørsmål (som for eksempel "hvordan kan vi produsere sunnere melk") og gjennomføring vil kreve kombinert bruk av ulike kunnskapsfelt (som for eksempel biologi, kjemi, matematikk og teknologi).
InterMedia vil bidra tungt inn i prosjektet, både fra teknologi- og samfunnsvitenskapssiden, med design av omgivelser, pedagogiske scenarier, teknologisk arkitektur, analyser av bruk og evaluering, og skal lede den største arbeidspakken i prosjektet.
"I get to participate in the research and my contribution is valued"
One of InterMedias Graduate students, Renate Jacobsen (now Andersen), has been interviewed by the TOOL programme (Technology - Organisation - Learning) at the University of Oslo.
You can read the interview in whole here (in Norwegian)
Sten Ludvigsen, professor and Director at InterMedia, has been elected Scientific Manager of Kaleidoscope, a Network of Excellence, supported by the European Community.
Kaleidoscope is a research network that brings together leading European teams in technology-enhanced learning. Currently it integrates 90 research units from around Europe, and covers a large range of expertise from technology to education, from academic to private research.
Altogether, it is a community of more than 1000 researchers and PhD-students in 24 countries. Across educational, computer and social sciences they have joined in their efforts to collaboratively develop new concepts and methods for exploring the future of learning with digital technologies.
-For InterMedia the involvement in Kaleidoscope represents a privileged access to both monitoring and influence in this field of European research, says Sten Ludvigsen.
-It has also contributed to the internationalization of our research education, to realizations of international research projects, to cooperation in technological infrastructure for research and to a strengthened relation between theory development and design of new technology for learning.
The appointment of Sten Ludvigsen is also important to the University of Oslo, says Ingrid Sogner, senior adviser at the EU-office. - It makes the University of Oslo visible. And it represents a significant contribution to fulfill an important ambition of the University; to lift it's internationally acknowledged research communities to even more central positions in European research and programs.
As scientific manager of Kaleidoscope, Sten Ludvigsen will be in charge of leading the activities of the network. This means that he will have a prominent role in supporting the community effort to shape a vision of its future scientifically and institutionally, and the high responsibility of "driving" the network toward a sustainable and productive organization.
