Swedish Student-Teachers in Digital Activities: Digital Competence Through Development-Oriented Thesis Projects

Digital Storytelling for Competence Development

The acquisition of complex knowledge and competences raises difficult challenges for the supporting tools within the corporate environment, which digital storytelling presents a potential solution. Traditionally, a driving goal of digital storytelling is the generation of dramatic stories with human significance, but for learning purposes, the need for drama is complemented by the requirement o...

Introducing Programming and Digital Competence in Swedish K-9 Education

The role of computer science and IT in Swedish schools has varied throughout the years. In fall 2014, the Swedish government gave the National Agency for Education (Skolverket) the task of preparing a proposal for K–9 education on how to better address the competences required in a digitalized society. In June 2016, Skolverket handed over a proposal introducing digital competence and programmin...

Transforming Student Learning through Digital Video

The rapid development and the widespread use of affordable and high-quality video technology is changing the field of educational research. In particular, digital video has been increasingly employed in classroom research in two different ways: as a tool for documenting classroom practice and as a stimulus for reflecting upon practice. The advantage of video technology in providing researchers ...

Student Leadership Development Through General Classroom Activities

Digital platform development: A service-oriented perspective

The traditional view of value is largely rooted in the material properties of physical goods. However, service-dominant logic tells us that value is not imbued in goods, but derived in its judicious application. A contextually bounded nature of value is highly relevant for the study of digital platforms given the reprogrammable nature of digital technology coupled with a necessity to serve seve...