Center for Educational Technology is now part of Nordic Network of National Centres of Excellence 2008.
NordLearn is a co-operation in research and research training between four universities in the area of learning and (digital) media. The research foci concern both theoretical problems about the consequences of media development for human learning and knowing, and applied issues of how digital resources may be used to support learning activities in schooling, adult training, on-the-job learning etc.
The four core partners are: the Linnaeus Centre for Research on Learning, Interaction and Mediated Communication (LinCS) at the University of Gothenburg (a national CoE), Intermedia at the University of Oslo, Centre for Learning Research at the University of Turku, and the Centre for Educational Technology at Tallinn University. In all, about 30 senior scholars, about 33 post-docs and around 70 Ph. D. students are active in these groups, and the teams represent a broad range of disciplines of significance for the area.
The aim of NordLearn is to co-ordinate research and research training at the four units, and to share technical and human resources.
The ambition is that NordLearn will function as one unit in large-scale international co-operations. NordLearn will offer courses and seminars for researchers and Ph. D. students from other Nordic and international research groups.
Common topics:
The logic of participating and learning in knowledge practices: schooling, science centres and networking in social websites (web 2.0)
Knowing and technologies: representation and mediation of professional knowledge and transformation of professional knowing
The emergence and transformation of mathematical knowing and the role of representational technologies: the intersection between culture and cognition of learning to reason
New conceptions of human competences and their development (collaborative skils, problem solving, reciprocal understanding, using technologies etc.)
