Responsibilities
My research explores how technology shapes teacher education, professional development, and educational policy. I combine policy analysis and practice-oriented studies with theoretical perspectives on digital competence, Bildung, and agency. My work spans analyses of policy documents and institutional strategies to studies of teacher education practices, student assistant roles, and pupils’ learning activities.
I am particularly interested in how technology transforms subject content and knowledge practices, and how generative artificial intelligence and postdigital contexts challenge established understandings of Bildung and professional development. Methodologically, my research includes document analysis, comparative policy studies, qualitative interviews, and analyses of emerging data sources such as podcasts.
Areas of interest:
- Comparative studies of Scandinavian teacher education (with expertise in Norwegian and Danish contexts)
- Policy studies in teacher education
- Tensions between policy/politics and practice
- Future Classroom Lab concepts
- Conceptualizations of professional digital competence (PDC)
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Development of teacher and student roles
New projects:
Participates in the research groups:
- ProDiCaTE – Professional Digital Competence, Bildung, and Teacher Education (USN, HVO, NTNU, HiØ & UiA) (2023-now)
- SEPP, "Research Studies of Education Policy and Education Practice" (2021- now).
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LÆDIME, "Læring, læringsdesign og digitale medier" [Learning, learning design and digital media] (2019-now)
- Master students
- PhD students
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Academic positions
- Professor - University of South-Eastern Norway (2021 - present), 100%
- Associate professor - University of South-Eastern Norway (2019-2021), 100%
- Associate Professor - University College Østfold (2018-2020), 20%
- Researcher, PhD - Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training (2018-2019)
- Researcher, PhD - Norwegian Centre for ICT in education (under the Ministry of Education) (2016-2018)
- Assistant professor, PhD - University College UCC, Denmark (2015)
- PhD fellow in Technological Literacy in Teacher Education, Aarhus University, Denmark (2012-2015)
- Assistant professor - University College UCC, Denmark (2009-2012)
- Research Assistant, Aarhus University, Denmark (2008-2009)
- Student Assistant, Learning Lab Denmark, Aarhus University, Denmark (2006-2007)
- Teacher in primary and lower secondary schools, Denmark (1998-2004)
Education
- 2012-2015 - Ph.D., Technology in Teacher Education, Faculty of Arts, Aarhus University, Denmark
- 2005-2007 - Master, Ma.Ed. in Educational Psychology, Faculty of Arts, Aarhus University, Denmark
- 1993-1998 - BA in Education, Københavns Dag- og Aftenseminarium [Copenhagen University College]