Future learning lab

Operating since 2010, Future Learning Lab develops and hosts research projects, events and explorative processes in the use of technology and media-rich learning environments. Our general focus is to work towards a better understanding of what challenges are represented by the emergent ”digitalization of society”, from the point of view of education and learning.

As worklife is automated, education globalized, knowledge networks proliferate and technologies enable completely new forms of access to learning … approaches to formal and informal learning also have to change. And they do change, raising both the need and the challenge of cross-dicsiplinary research, foundational medis critique and futures oriented explorations of new means of learning and co-creative entrepreneurship.

Our research focus has five main entries:

1. Explorative research on uses of new learning technologies
2. Media and design-oriented research on tehcnology and user orientations
3. Sociological inquiry of new learning technologyś impact on society
4. Geographcal study of emergent global knowledge networks and connectivity
5. Anthropological perspectives on globalization, development and connectivity

Publications in Cristin

PhD programme in social sciences

Partners

• Various regional private and public stakeholders, South Norway
• Nordic Innovation Center, Oslo
• Open Innovation Lab of Norway, Oslo
• Nordic Innvation House, Palo Alto
• DIGIN
• Oslo EdTech
• Oslo Start-up Lab
• GRID Arendal
• Norwegian Aid Agency (NORAD)
• The Freedom of Speech Foundation
• Aftenposten – Norway´s key newspaper
• FUN – Fleksibel Utdanning Norge
• IKT i Utdanningen
• Norgesuniversitetet – Norwegian Digital University
• BI Norwegian Business School
• University College of South-East Norway
• NLA University College
• University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
• Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
• Uganda Christian University, Kampala Uganda
• University of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
• EdCast
• SunSense
• Stanford University
• Institute for the Future

Projects

• Emergent Worlds: Developing media-rich learning tools for sustainable development.  Project end date, Spring 2016.
• Global media X: Exploring a MOOC on Global Journalism, a collaboration with EdCast. End date, fall 2016
• Understanding Global Journalism: A book project, learning tools and study guides. End date, fall 2016.
• World Learning Summits: Annual international conferences. Ongoing.
• New learning formats: A study of flipped classroom approaches to teachers training curricula – Nye læringsformer, Omvendt Klasserom som pedagogisk prinsipp i  grunnskolelærerutdanningen: Project end date: Fall 2016.
• Future Learning Lab Knowledge Cloud: An ongoing MOOC laboratory. 

Publications

2018

Aagaard Toril, Swanberg Anne Berit, Hjukse Hjørdis, Tveiten Oddgeir, Steen-Utheim Anna Therese, Grøndal Inger Carin, Breivik June, Technology and new educational practices: Videostories as tool for promoting pedagogical reflection? (2018). UNIPED. ISSN 1893-8981.

2017

Haugen, H., Ask, B. & Bjoerke, S.A. (2017). Training Teachers at all Levels in Pedagogical Approaches and Methods for Online and Blended Learning. In P. Resta & S. Smith (Eds.), Proceedings of Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2017 (pp. 1598-1606). Chesapeake, VA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE).

Lazareva, A. (2017). “Role of the online tutor in establishing social presence in asynchronous text-based collaborative learning environments”, in Proceedings of the 19th Interactive Collaborative Learning Conference (Volume 1). Springer International Publishing.

Lazareva, A. (2017). A framework for small group support in online collaborative learning: Combining collaboration scripts and online tutoring. Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Computer Supported Education (CSEDU), Porto, Portugal.

Lazareva, A. (2017). Facilitating synchronous collaborative writing with a collaboration script. Proceedings of the 2017 International conference on Information Systems Development (ISD), Larnaca, Cyprus.

Nampiija, D. (2017) Mobile Technologies as tools for Learning in Non-formal contexts. Experiences with Smallholders farmers in Resource Limited Settings, World Learning Summit Official Proceedings, Berlin: Logos Verlag, pp. 95-107. 

Stracke, C.M., Tveiten, O. & Shanks, M. (2017) Smart Universities: Education's Digital Future, World Learning Summit Official Proceedings, Berlin: Logos Verlag, pp. 7-10. 

Stracke, C.M. (2017) The Quality of Open Online Education and Learning: A Quality Reference Framework for MOOCs, World Learning Summit Official Proceedings, Berlin: Logos Verlag, pp. 93-95.

Tan, E., Stracke, C. M., Prokopowicz. M., Kővári. E., Kigyós, T., Csizmadia, T., Kronika.K., Fehérvölgyi.B., Erdős., K. (2017) Learning to learn: Beyond 2020, World Learning Summit Official Proceedings, Berlin: Logos Verlag, pp. 12-20. 

Trondsen, E. (2017) Nordic EdTech: Evolution, challenges, and opportunities, World Learning Summit Official Proceedings, Berlin: Logos Verlag, pp. 116-120

Tveiten, O. (2017) Contact Education: A theory Framework, World Learning Summit Official Proceedings, Berlin: Logos Verlag, pp. 82-93. 

Tveiten, O. (2017) MOOCing Journalism Education: Notes on the Emergent Learning Technology Industry, World Learning Summit Official Proceedings, Berlin: Logos Verlag, pp. 107-116. 

Øysæd, H., Andersen, R.,, Garmannslund P.E., Prinz, A.,, Lazareva, A-., Schmidt, M., (2017) Does The Introduction Of An Overall Study Strategy Empowering Students To Use Appropriate Study Strategies?. ICERI proceedings . ISSN 2340-1095. s 4152 - 4157

2016

Bjørke, S. Å. & Lazareva A. (2016). Tutoring in online and distance education. Symposium on Advances in Digital Technologies for University Teaching & Learning (D-TEL), Kristiansand, Norway.

Goth, UGS & Økland, Ø (2016) Helse- og oppvekstfag i en globalisert verden. I: Yrkes- og profesjonsutdanning i en norsk kontekst. Gyldendal Akademisk 2016 ISBN 9788205490789. s. 68-83, HIOA NLAH UIA 

Lazareva, A. (2016). Tutoring in online collaborative learning courses. Distance Education Leapfrogging Project Workshop (DELP), Kampala, Uganda.

Bjørke, S. Å. & Lazareva A. (2016). Peer assessment in online collaborative learning: Increasing performance. UiA-UNO Assessment Workshop, Omaha, USA.

2015

Fatahi, N. & Økland, Ø (2015) Difficulties and Possibilities in Kurdish Refugees’ Social Relationship and its Impact on their Psychosocial Well-Being. Journal of Family Medicine and Community Health 2015 ;Volum 2.(3)
NLAH 

Khazanchi, D., Munkvold, B. E., & Lazareva, A. (2015). Towards a Contingency Theory of eLearning. Digital Media in Teaching and its Added Value, 35.

Lazareva, A. (2015). Designing engaging computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) environments: Online tutor as a provider of adaptive support. Symposium on Advances in Digital Technologies for University Teaching & Learning (D-TEL), Grimstad, Norway.

Lazareva, A. (2015). Promoting collaborative interactions in a learning management system. Proceedings of 2015 International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning (ICL), Florence, Italy.

2014

Økland, Ø.(2014) Dialogue and mission in a globalized world: Developments in the World Council of Churches and in the Lausanne Movement. I: The Lausanne movement: A range of perspectives. Regnum Books 2014 ISBN 978-1-908355-52-2. s. 367-382
NLAH 

Older

Fjeldstad, KB; Omland, S. & Økland, Ø. (2013) Norske medier fra et norsk-somalisk perspektiv. I: Innvandrerungdom og mediebruk: Norsk-somalisk ungdom i en global medieverden. Portal forlag 2013 ISBN 978-82-92712-79-5. s. 72-88
NLAH 

Økland, Ø.(2013)Kommunikasjon. I: Folkehelse i et norsk perspektiv. Gyldendal Akademisk 2014 ISBN 9788205463950. s. 227-243
NLAH

Haugen, H.; Ask, B.; Bjørke, S.Å. (2012) Preparing teachers for practicing ICT and e-learning. Article at International conference on education, research and innovation (ICERI)

Tveiten, O. (2013) “Forstå, forklare, forebygge”, Norsk Medietidsskrift

Økland, Ø. (2013) Å forstå ungdom i en ny global virkelighet. I: Innvandrerungdom og mediebruk: Norsk-somalisk ungdom i en global medieverden. Portal forlag 2013 ISBN 978-82-92712-79-5. s. 108-117