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A new publication by Ammar Singh (HiØ) & Anders Mørch (UiO) discusses the facilitation of students' learning in a massive open online context. 

A Triple Challenge: Students’ Identification, Interpretation, and Use of Individualized Automated Feedback in Learning to Write English as a Foreign Language

Ilka Nagel has defended her thesis and been interviewd by our university college about the findings in her PhD-work. You can read more: Disputas: Ilka Marie Luise Nagel - Institutt for lærerutdanning og skoleforskning (uio.no)

The article "Digital skills critical for education: Video analysis of students' technology use in Norwegian secondary English classrooms" is one of the 10% most downloaded articles in the Journal of Computer Assisted Learning since its publication in 2022.

In December RIDE members Ingeborg Krange and Hilde Afdal participated in an exciting workshop in the Interreg project Nordic Digital Health Education (NorDigHE).

RIDE member associate professor Leonora Bergsjø was recently interviewed in the national news for a feature article about images generated by artificial intelligence.

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.

We invited teachers and school leaders from our partner schools Åssiden vgs. and Fagskolen i Viken to start the third and final year of BlendVET training and development. 

In public debates on welfare services, the question of how much money should be invested often take center stage. Voices from various political perspectives are in focus, but those who are the recipients of services are rarely heard. This includes children who go to kindergarten and school. The EMER network, which conducts research on resistance in the context of welfare provision, aims to change that.

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.

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.

As part of his PhD-project Anders Dechsling and colleagues recently published an article where they have reviewed available evidence on the use of Virtual Reality in interventions for autistic children. Together with researchers from the research group DeveLeP at Østfold University College and international collaborators, Dechsling found that there were a lot of studies investigating VR-interventions for autistic children. However, none of them utilize interventions with the most support in the research literature.

Associate professor Tamara Kalandadze participates in an international collaborative project aiming to develop guidelines for conducting non-interventional systematic reviews and meta-analyses. The project is entitled “Non-Interventional, Reproducible, and Open (NIRO) Systematic Review Guidelines”.

Associate professor Tamara Kalandadze is now a member of the research group in Special Education, and provides the research group with additional and valuable educational and research experience.

The results from a student master-project were recently published by the research group in Special Education at Østfold university college, in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders (JADD).