Teacher Educators Moving from Learning the Office Package to Learning About Digital Natives' Use of ICT

Mia Karlsson

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2007 (Jun 25, 2007) pp. 100–107

This case study reports results from interactive research within the development project CompLETE, a Swedish project granted equivalent to USD 3 million, aimed at enhancing use of ICT in teacher education. The research project rationale is that...

Topics: Information Communication Technologies, Teachers, Students

Silence on the Net. Distance Education Design in a CSCL and Community of Practice Framework

Anita Mattsson; Mia Karlsson; Berner Lindström

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2008 (Mar 03, 2008) pp. 549–556

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...

A Mobile Game as a Tool to Support Learning among Teenage Girls: An Explorative Study conducted from a Community of Practice Perspective

Mia Karlsson; Daniel Spikol; Marcelo Milrad

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2008 (Mar 03, 2008) pp. 2636–2643

This study explores the use of mobile games to support informal learning. The results presented in this paper are based on interviews conducted with five Swedish teenage girls out of a total of thirty who participated in a summer course on...