The project aims at identifying the creative dynamics that occur when young people aged 12-20 are involved with social media activities in relation to natural science museums. It also studies how their interaction and reflection processes relate to the content and the communication purposes intended by the museums.
The PhD project studies learning across contexts at a cultural history museum. Drawing on theories from socio-cultural, media and museum studies, and a mixed method approach the project aims to investigate and understand, how different media solutions within the museum space online as well as offline influences young people's museum and learning experience.
The project investigates how Danish secondary school students (15-19 years old) and their teachers perceive and use digital museum learning resources. With a point of departure in cultural historical activity theory and Pierre Bourdieu's theory on field and habitus, the project explores the challenges and tensions surrounding the use of digital museum education materials in the classroom when the museum is not physically present.
The project deals with how mobile media can be used to scaffold young peoples’ creative science learning in a semi-formal learning context. The project positions itself between the research fields of semi-formal learning, digital literacy and museology, and qualitative studies are conducted in the science center Experimentarium’s semi-formal learning environment consisting of a school workshop "Energy agent for a day" and the associated exhibition.
The PhD project explores collaboration between museums and creative industries in developing ICT that support museum experiences in innovative ways. The theme is investigated on two levels: A macro level focusing on how different forms of collaboration are established and developed and a micro level focusing on how collaboration outplays in the creative processes of developing ideas and concepts for ICT.
The aim of the project is to investigate how a digital social network site (Web 2.0) can be applied to facilitate collection, selection and creation of knowledge in a museum setting where rock and popular music is the topic. In methodological terms, the investigation applies ethnological methods as well as a collaborative design process involving users and other stakeholders.
The second generation of web-based communities and hosted services facilitates collaboration and sharing between users and reciprocity between users and providers, embracing open communication, decentralization of authority, and freedom to share and re-use. Such uses challenge received notions of organisational structure, distribution of professional authority and organisational branding....
The project explores quantitative modeling and scale measurement as methods for evaluating learning in digital workshops for students in the age of 13 to 19. A typology of students’ learning experiences and an analytical model to measure effects of educators performance and qualities of content creation using digital media on reflection is established.
This project focuses on the development of the Media mixer, an exhibition room at the Media museum where young user can produce, share and exhibit content. Through a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods the project shows how young people produce, share and appropriate content on a social platform which is best described as a hybrid economy of meaning.
The aim of the PhD project is to advance a granular understanding of media literacy by analysing relations between media production and consumption. I co-designed an online learning resource, "The animation island" (AnimationsØen), for the production of multimodal, animated film and studied Danish upper-secondary school students’ appropriation of the resources...
The PhD project is a study of the educational potential of debate games in upper-secondary education. A debate game is defined by a staged conflict in a classroom setting with specific rules, roles, and relevant forms of evaluation. Based on the assumption that debate games enable students’ learning processes by...
The PhD project studies learning potentials and practices resulting from an integration of media, literary and prose texts in mothertongue teaching (Danish) in upper-secondary education. In theoretical terms, the project surveyed Scandinavian research on learning resources and adopted a sociocultural approach to learning and a multimodal approach to textual competence...
The project focuses on upper-secondary students’ interest in physics, and more specifically whether it is possible to transform a short-term, situational interest in physics into a longer-term sustained interest. The study is based on the assumption that sustained interest is advanced by a conceptual learning approach focusing on everyday ideas...