The AI4AfL project, Artificial Intelligence for Assessment for Learning, aims to develop a new artificial intelligence technology capable of analyzing secondary school students’ written texts in English and providing syntactic, semantic, and sentiment automatic feedback on these texts. The technology has been named EAT, Essay Assessment Tool. The project is organized as a design-based research initiative that runs over four years. EAT is tried out in real classrooms while students carry out process-oriented writing sessions. The empirical experiences of how students and teachers use the technology is used to expand and improve EAT and understand how this type of technology can support the work with formative assessment in students’ work with texts. AI4AfL is an interdisciplinary project consisting of educational researchers, AI researchers and interaction designers. Østfold University College, Colda University College, Hypatia Learning, and Halden Municipality are contributors. The project is financed by the Research Council of Norway.
The NorDigHE-project, Nordic Digital Health & Education aims to develop an educational program for doctors and nurses where they receive digital training in treating patients who are in their own homes. The training must ensure that the staff acquires sufficient digital competence and the necessary psychological security to be able to deliver treatment virtually. Research has shown that this lack of interdisciplinary competence in treatment situations has been an obstacle to the introduction of e-health services in clinical practice. NorDigHE builds on experiences from Nordsjællands Hospital’s project Influence-I and Lund University’s operation of eChildHealth and ICope, all of which are this type of educational programs, and which have documented promising results. The consortium consists of public and private actors from Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, including two hospitals: Nordsjælland Hospital and Sahlgrenska University Hospital; two professional colleges: University College Copenhagen and Østfold University College; one university: Lund University; as well as three private businesses: Mount Visual, BALOO and Copenhagen Game Lab. (*a project webpage for NorDigHE is currently under development). The project is funded by EU-InterReg.
The ENACT project - Ethical Risks and Assessment of Artifical Intelligence in Practice, aims to both design a method for ethical testing of artificial intelligence (AI) technology and to develop training programs so that the method can be applied to relevant AI technology in the Norwegian market. "The use of artificial intelligence is having a greater and greater impact on our lives, so we need to ensure that its use is ethically justifiable for the society we want to live in” says project leader and Associate Professor at Østfold University College, Leonora Onarheim Bergsjø. The project group consists of Sintef Digital, the Faculty of Education and Languages at Østfold University College, the Norwegian Open AI Lab at NTNU, the Department of Informatics at UiO and Centre for eHealth at UiA, as well as University College London and Imperial College London. In addition, the Norwegian Artificial Intelligence Research Consortium (NORA) and the innovation network Cluster for Applied AI/Smart Innovation Norway are central to the project, together with the Norwegian Council for Digital Ethics (NORDE). The method that researchers and partners will develop, will be tested on a wide range of Norwegian enterprises from the sectors of education, health and welfare, and finance and transport. This includes major national enterprises such as NAV, DNB, Posten, Medsensio and Hypatia Learning. The project is financed by the Research Council of Norway. (*a project webpage for ENACT is currently under development).
The BlendVET project, Blended learning in vocational education and training (completed) aims to facilitate the implementation of blended learning and support the use of digital technologies in teaching and learning in vocational schools. The project is lead by the Institute of the Republic of Slovenia for VET (CPI). Cooperating partners consist of ICT professionals, school leaders and vocational education teachers from Slovenia, Norway and Iceland. The Norwegian representative from Østfold University College (ØUC) is the academic community for ICT in teaching and learning; Stine Brynildsen, Sonja Nygaard-Joki and Eva Martinsen Dyrnes who specializes in vocational education; all are from the ØUC Department of Education, ICT and Learning (PIL). This project addresses the need of VET providers to get focused professional support to introduce blended learning in their daily practice. The project will foster collaboration between the cooperating project partners and create communities to collectively develop, learn from each other and exchange valuable experiences. BlendVet is a 3-year EEA/Norway Grants project.