Papers by Berner Lindström
Advances in higher education and professional development book series, Oct 4, 2011
People create relationships and ties in social networks (Haythornthwaite, 2008). At work, buildin... more People create relationships and ties in social networks (Haythornthwaite, 2008). At work, building professional networks is an important part of structuring a professional field. Professionals engage together in order to gain advantages both collectively and individually (Beaulieu, Rioux, Rocher, Samson, & Boucher, 2008). Networking is not merely a strategy to stay attractive on the market; it also offers participants opportunities to share knowledge and experiences related to
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference, Mar 5, 2017
International Journal of Web Based Communities, 2012
ABSTRACT The aim of this article is to generate implications for organising co-moderation within ... more ABSTRACT The aim of this article is to generate implications for organising co-moderation within online learning communities (OLCs) in higher education. Data have been collected from a larger empirical study of a professional OLC in general medicine. By using a social perspective on learning, undertaken as a transactional approach, co-moderation can be understood in shared actions, independently of roles. Results indicate how conditions for organising co-moderation emerge as a collaborative affair, by shifting the focus away from the moderator role towards continual discussions on how to participate online. The implications guide organisers and participants of OLCs to create co-moderation that maintains engagement. As students make progress in learning and online participation, they need to continually negotiate their involvement in such a way that further realises the contract created at the beginning of the course.
ICERI proceedings, Nov 1, 2022
ICERI proceedings, Nov 1, 2019
"Vad ska man ha den till da?" : om konstruktionistisk teknologi och larande i skolans v... more "Vad ska man ha den till da?" : om konstruktionistisk teknologi och larande i skolans varld
Journal of Workplace Learning, May 8, 2017
Purpose This study aims to investigate how boundary work is carried out at the incident site duri... more Purpose This study aims to investigate how boundary work is carried out at the incident site during exercises with police, ambulance and rescue services, and how boundary awareness is developed based on this boundary work. Collaboration in emergency work is challenging on many levels. The unforeseen and temporary nature of incidents presents basic challenges. Another important challenge is boundaries between specialised and autonomous emergency service organisations. Knowledge on how exercises are performed to increase the individuals' and organisations' preparedness for future joint-response work is relatively limited. Design/methodology/approach Empirically, full-scale exercises involving police, ambulance and rescue services and with repetition of practical scenarios and joint-reflection seminars are studied. Interview data with 26 exercise participants were analysed using thematic analysis. The analytic focus is on how boundaries are identified, negotiated and managed in the participants’ work. Findings Much of the work in the exercises was performed within distinct areas of expertise, in accordance with concrete routines, skills and responsibilities. Boundary work was often organised in the form of distribution of labour or creating chains of actions. The exercises shed light on challenges related to other aspects of emergency response, such as a lack of resources, diverging primary responsibilities, time-criticality and hazardous environments. The design allowed participants to explicate boundaries, to test and discuss alternative solutions and to visualise the effects of different solutions, as the scenarios were repeated. Originality/value The study found that the boundaries that were identified were often of institutional character, and were also related to the specific scenarios and to the actions taken in the activities. By integrating real-life experiences of collaborative work in the exercise, the exercise gained a certain meaning that was essential for the participants to develop boundary awareness.
Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics, Jun 20, 2010
Farm animal welfare is a knowledge domain that can be regarded as a model for new ways of organiz... more Farm animal welfare is a knowledge domain that can be regarded as a model for new ways of organizing learning and make higher education more responsive to the needs of society. Global concern for animal welfare has resulted in a great demand for knowledge. As a complement to traditional education in farm animal welfare, higher education can be more demand driven and look at a broad range of methods to make knowledge available. The result of an inventory on "farm animal welfare," "e-learning," "learning resources," and "open educational resources" in three different search engines is presented. A huge amount of information on animal welfare is available on the Internet but many of the providers lock in the knowledge in a traditional course context. Only a few universities develop and disseminate open learning resources within the subject. Higher education institutions are encouraged to develop open educational resources in animal welfare for the benefit of teachers, students, society, and, indirectly, animal welfare.
This paper is about distance education design in a CSCL framework, building on theories of commun... more This paper is about distance education design in a CSCL framework, building on theories of communities of practice. One teacher and nine student groups in higher education have been followed during one course. An analysis is made on1098 posted contributions, and interviews made with all participants. The result shows that the teacher says she is embraced by socio cultural theories. However, in practice she carries through the course in a constructivist manner, leaving it up to the students to form their pedagogical practice to a great extent on their own. Structuring assignments, feedback, designing for the unexpected, teacher as a co-learner, are aspects highlighted in the analysis.
Dr. Lindstrom will discuss some general trends in the change of higher education - with regard to... more Dr. Lindstrom will discuss some general trends in the change of higher education - with regard to missions, structure, organization, content and teaching/learning - that are effected by the development of information and communications technologies (ICT). First, Dr. Lindstrom will examine some of general patterns of change of higher education during the last decade, globalisation, massification, and virtualization. He will also discuss the demands put on higher education from these changes, on accessability, adaptability, quality and cost-effectiveness. Secondly, Dr. Lindstrom will look at patterns of change in society as a whole related to ICT-infrastructure, functionality of ICT-tools and services, commercialization of ICT, mass-media and ICT, and ICT-use in working life. Dr. Lindstrom will maintain that these changes are crucial of the changes that are taking place in higher education. He will illustrate how these changes might be conceptualized in terms of flexible learning, esp...
Supporting self-directed learning with cultures of participation in collaborative learning enviro... more Supporting self-directed learning with cultures of participation in collaborative learning environments Gerhard Fischer 2 Language learning as dialogue and participation Hannele Dufva 3 Designing for sustainable pedagogical development in higher education language teaching Juha Jalkanen & Peppi Taalas 4 Designing problem-based learning in virtual learning environments-Positioning teachers as competent practitioners and designers Thomas Ryberg 5 Common conceptions of mobile phones in school settings Torbjörn Ott PART II: CASE STUDIES IN TEACHING 6 Virtual labs as context for learning-continuities and contingencies in student activities
The work of English oybernetician Gordon Pask.on learning styles and strategies is.presented. An ... more The work of English oybernetician Gordon Pask.on learning styles and strategies is.presented. An attempt is made to describe the basic ideas of Conversation Theory, Pask's general theory of cognition. The learning strategies "holisi" and "serialism," and the more general learning styles "comprehension learning" and "operation learning" are derived from Conversation Theory. These strategies and styles are described, both operationally and in terms of constructs within the theory. It is argued that the theory, apart from generating hypotheses about learning and teaching, may function as an analytic tool in the study of educational practice. (Author/LC)
Instructional Science, 2012
This paper presents an analysis of the scientific reasoning of a dyad of secondary school student... more This paper presents an analysis of the scientific reasoning of a dyad of secondary school students about the phenomenon of dissolution of gases in water as they work on this in a simulated laboratory experiment. A web-based virtual laboratory was developed to provide learners with the opportunity to examine the influence of physical factors on gas solubility in water. An evaluation process involving 180 students revealed that the concepts connected to the dissolution of gas in water caused problems for the students even after having experimented with the virtual laboratory. To investigate the nature of learners' reasoning about the visualised events, 13 video-recorded groups of learners were analysed. This study follows the reasoning of one group that displayed a possibly productive way of solving the problem. The results address the students' general difficulty of discovering something that they are conceptually unprepared for within the virtual laboratory. The analysis shows how the students eventually found a way out of their dilemma by making an analogy with other dissolving processes. In effect, the analysis elucidates some of the analytical work that had to be done by the participants when collaboratively negotiating a shared meaning of a scientific concept in concord with a given task and set of instructional materials. Implications for design might be to provide the learning material with explicit hints that enable students to connect to specific phenomena related to the one investigated concept. The findings show the usefulness of video analytic research, informed by CA and ethnomethodology. This analytical framework can support design processes and provide useful information, which might identify hurdles to learning a scientific concept by simulated events and pathways to overcome these hurdles.
During the last years there has been an emphasis on the notion of “One-to-One” - one laptop for e... more During the last years there has been an emphasis on the notion of “One-to-One” - one laptop for each student - as a foundation for school development. In this paper we will present a two-year study of such a project in two secondary schools in Sweden. We will present the context and ideas behind the project and examples of how teachers appropriate ICT in their school practices. These examples show how ICT has become a tool that is integrated into the school’s infrastructure for learning; how ICT has transformed the classroom activities; and how teachers has developed what Koehler and Mishra has termed TPACK.
INTED proceedings, Mar 1, 2019
Proceedings of the ... Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2021
Expectations that technology will improve and streamline education are high. However, technology ... more Expectations that technology will improve and streamline education are high. However, technology often introduces new problems. This study aims to explore the challenges mathematics teachers encounter when they implement a digital mathematics textbook with an integrated intelligent tutoring system. A formative intervention was conducted in a two-year project with 16 secondary school teachers. The method was based on activity theory and required the teachers to collaborate with researchers in analyzing their work activity when the new teaching tool was introduced. In this paper, we show that an intelligent tutoring system created systemic contradictions for the teachers. Those contradictions involved predictability, division of labor, individual versus collective learning, accountability, and expectations versus experience. The teachers all tried to resolve the contradictions, but eventually felt compelled to abandon the intelligent tutoring system. The findings contribute to a better understanding of teachers' responses to a technology aimed at automating teaching processes.
Nurse Education in Practice, Sep 1, 2001
Computer simulations have been widely used for training purposes and proliferate in nursing and m... more Computer simulations have been widely used for training purposes and proliferate in nursing and medicine. To take account of the multifaceted nature of nursing, a participatory design approach was applied in which nursing practice was utilized as a point of departure for exploring the educational value of the new technologies. In an empirical study, nurses with different degrees of experience were interviewed about those tasks within nursing that they perceived as difficult to learn, and how simulation technologies might contribute to learning the management of these. Six aspects of expertise emerged:judging the patient's health status; monitoring care interventions; prioritizing and carrying out interventions efficiently; communicating with patients and their relatives; cooperating with other members of the staff; and managing complexity. Most aspects include dynamic and complex features, and simulations were judged to be useful for capturing these and, subsequently, for training. Other aspects, such as focusing on human interaction, were assessed to be less prolific. Compared to traditio nal teaching media, the dynamic featuresof simulations were judged to be most useful. Training with simulations was regarded as complementary to other forms of instruction, and the curricular integration of simulations decisive in determining their cont ribution to learning in nurse education.
Ubiquitous Computing, 2009
... Författare: Linda Bradley (Institutionen för tillämpad informationsteknologi & Linnécentr... more ... Författare: Linda Bradley (Institutionen för tillämpad informationsteknologi & Linnécentret for forskning om lärande (LinCS), GU); Berner Lindström (Institutionen för pedagogik och didaktik, GU & Linnécentret for forskning om lärande (LinCS), GU & Institutionen för tillämpad ...
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