RIDE member associate professor Leonora Bergsjø was recently interviewed in the national news for a feature article about images generated by artificial intelligence.
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A new publication from RIDE member Halvdan Haugsbakken argues how the implementation of a new learning management system (LMS) in higher education can be understood as constituitive entanglement.
A BlendVET study visit to Slovenia in April 2023 gave us first-hand experience of how vocational and technical schools have implemented blended learning approaches in their classrooms and workshops.
At NERA 2023 the NoZa - Intercultural Mobility Project shared digital challenges and opportunities when designing a joint course across continents.
Fremmedspråksenteret hosted a visit from Denmark in January funded by Erasmus+. Fremmedspråksenteret (with the help of a colleague from HiØ/SLIK) held workshops for Danish teachers.
The second teacher training workshop for the EEA Grants project Blended learning in vocational education and training (BlendVET) was held at Østfold University College's (ØUC) campus Remmen in February 2023.
A workshop on “Methodological innovations for interdisciplinary research and practice”, will be held in June, by Fredrik Andersen and the Methodological Innovation Network around the North Sea (MINANS). You can contribute and submit an abstract.
Through a visit to Moi University in Kenya, financed by Erasmus+ Global, staff members from Østfold University College have strengthened opportunities for exchange as well as research collaborations.
Another important milestone is reached in our EEA Grants- project Blended learning in vocational education and training (BlendVET): Meeting the teachers! To mark the start of our close collaboration with participating teachers from Norway’s two BlendVET schools, Eva Dyrnes, Stine Brynildsen and Sonja Nygaard-Joki from HiØ organized a workshop at the campus of Åssiden in Drammen.
Finally the Norwegian and Zanzibarian project partners in the NoZa – intercultural mobility project met physically, to develop a joint course in Teacher Education.
Teacher students from the Netherlands and international students from Kenya and Zanzibar visited schools in Halden and Østfold University College last week, to learn how the Norwegian education system works.
From the forests of the tales of the Brothers Grimm to Enid Blyton’s The Faraway Tree, from the flowers of Cicely Mary Barker’s fairies to the treehouse in Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton’s popular 13-Storey Treehouse series, trees and other plants have been enduring features of stories for children and young adults. The brand-new book Plants in Children’s and Young Adult Literature, co-edited by Associate Professor Melanie Duckworth (Østfold University College) and Professor Lykke Guanio-Uluru (Western Norway University of Applied Sciences), maps out and presents an internationally inclusive view of plant representation in texts for children and young adults – and shows how this is far more than just a fairy tale.