Academic interests
- Collective intelligence
- Mentoring
- Open textbooks and open educational resources (OER)
- Active learning
- Digital storytelling
- Verbal metacommunication (metadiscourse, metatalk)
- Teacher education research
- Research methods
- Cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT)
- Online education
- Digital competence
- Knowledge building
- Philosophy of technology
Courses taught
Foundations of Education, various pedagogical subjects.
Background
I have been working at the Faculty of Education at Østfold University College since 2004, and was promoted to Professor in 2015.
During my first period (2004-2012) I taught courses in educational technology. I also coordinated several ICT-projects with a number of different schools in the region. In recent years, I have taught courses in educational foundations in the teacher training programme. In addition, I have been involved in some of the mentoring courses for practicum teachers.
From 2015-17, I also had a part-time position at the local Educational Development and Learning Center. In 2012-13, I had a one-year stay at the University of Toronto as a visiting scholar.
As a teacher in tertiary education, my primary emphasis has always been to continuously try to improve my own classroom teaching and student learning. Over the years, both me and my students have produced a number of different open educational resources as a part of the lessons.
In 2017, I finished my PhD which summarizes the insights from my work as a teacher educator. The monograph is openly available for download at this link.