Academic Leads | Education | Enabling Technology

The research in the Education Cluster is carried out in a coalition led by the Interaction Research Group, Department of Information Science and Media Studies at the University of Bergen, Norway, in collaboration with the MENON Network, the Norwegian School of Economics, Norwegian learning technology company Cerpus Ltd, and Uni Research Ltd.

The Department of Information Science and Media Studies carries out multi-faceted research on methods, information and communication technologies and their various aspects, impacts and usages in a plethora of settings. The Interaction Research Group focuses on interaction between information systems and users, technology-mediated interaction in distributed and co-located settings, and in technology rich settings. One of the focus areas is Technology Enhanced Learning.

The MENON Network is a European research and innovation network working to foster and smoothen innovation processes in areas such as education and lifelong learning, international S&T cooperation, knowledge society and social inclusion. Six institutions in six different countries are members of the MENON network.

Øystein Johannessen
EDUCATION CLUSTER LEAD

University of Bergen
Norway

Cerpus Ltd
Director of the Cerpus Learning Garden

Øystein Johannessen is the Director of the Cerpus Learning Garden at Cerpus Ltd. and a Fellow at Education Impact.

In 2009, Oystein was seconded to the OECD Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI). In this capacity, he has been involved in a number of strategic initiatives, plans and programmes in education. His career started 20 years ago working in higher education with tasks related to teacher training and professional development for public service and education. He was instrumental in the establishment of the Norwegian School of Film and Television in 1997. Øystein has extensive international experience. He was a member of the European Commission eLearning Programme Committee, has served on the Steering Committee of the European Schoolnet (EUN), and in 2002 chaired the IT-Policy Group for Education and Research in the Nordic Council of Ministers. He has been an active force of the OECD New Millennium Learner Project (NML) since it started in 2007.

Øystein Johannessen holds a Master of Arts in Contemporary German Literature with Minors in English and Economics.

Professor BARBARA WASSON
EDUCATION CLUSTER RESEARCH LEAD

University of Bergen, Norway

Leader, Interaction Research Group
Department of Information Science & Media Studies

Prof Wasson is part of the Department of Information Science & Media Studies, University of Bergen & Research Leader, InterMedia, Uni Health, Uni Research AS. Since obtainined her PhD in artificial intelligence in Education and working on the first networked learning in the classroom project, she has been involved in numerous international research projects on technology enhanced learning in classrooms, higher education and the workplace. She was one of the founders of the Kaleidoscope Network of Excellence and its special interest group on Computer Support for Collaborative Learning. Furthermore, she obtained the contract with the Norwegian Ministry of Education for InterMedia to develop the ICT-based delivery system for the National test in English. Her current research is focused on formative assessment in technology rich classrooms, collaboration mechanisms in games, mobile learning, and learning applications in healthcare. She is on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Computer Support for Collaborative Learning, the Nordic Journal of Digital Competence and the Book Series on Technology Enhanced Learning (Sense Publishers), and has written over 100 publications related to technology enhanced learning and been a keynote speaker at several major conferences within the field.

Academic Contributors

Stefania Aceto

Stefania is Vice-Director at Scienter-Research and Innovation in Learning, coordinating the Observatory Unit on Learning Technologies sine 2011. Her work concerns with analysis and forecasting of ICT impact on education, training and lifelong learning.

The MENON Network

Fabio Nascimbeni

Fabio is Director of the MENON Network and is finalizing a PhD on ICT for Development in Knowledge. His expertise varies from business development to policy strategy, and has been coordinating a number of projects in e-learning, life-long learning, ICT research, information society development, and education research.

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Jo Dugstad Wake

Jo Dugstad has a Cand Polit degree in Information Science from the University of Bergen and is completing a PhD about Smartphones, Computer Games and Learning/Education. His research interests are Computer Supported Collabroative Learning, Mobile Learning and Computer Games and Learning.

Uni Research Ltd

Roberto Carneiro

Roberto Carneiro is President of the Study Centre on Peoples and Cultures and Dean of the Institute for Distance Learning of the Portuguese Catholic University (UCP). In the research field he has led European and national projects in his fields of expertise: Education, Human Resources, Economics of Education, Future and Foresight Studies, ICT impacts on Society and Culture, Migrations. He has extensive international experience with development agencies, and served as a member of the UNESCO International Commission on Education in the 21st Century. He was President of the Editorial Board of eLearning Papers and Chairs the Editorial Board of the European Journal of Education. A former Portuguese Minister of Education, Carneiro is an Honorary Doctor in Education/Presentation Fellow of King’s College (University of London).

The MENON Network