Stefan Hrastinski
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Digital Learning, Faculty Member
Although there is an abundance of digital education resources, we must find better ways to support learners when and where they have a need.
There are many prescriptive learning design models, which attempt to guide teachers to design for learning by taking advantage of digital technologies. This paper argues that more emphasis could be put on design for learning as an... more
There are many prescriptive learning design models, which attempt to guide teachers to design for learning by taking advantage of digital technologies. This paper argues that more emphasis could be put on design for learning as an informed practice. Four principles are suggested: Designs for learning should be (1) informed by available, relevant and recent resources, (2) continuously reflected upon and evaluated, (3) iteratively improved, and (4) shared, while also emphasizing lessons learned. Teachers should be encouraged to address questions that encourage them to inform their designs for learning, such as: What is known about the learning activity that you are designing? How can resources and your previous experiences be used to inform the design? How can you evaluate the design in order to know how it can be improved? How can your designs and lessons learned be shared with others?
Emotions have been confirmed to be a critical component of the process of learning. In the online Community of Inquiry theoretical framework, and the recently suggested online Relationship of Inquiry framework, emotions are considered a... more
Emotions have been confirmed to be a critical component of the process of learning. In the online Community of Inquiry theoretical framework, and the recently suggested online Relationship of Inquiry framework, emotions are considered a subsection of social presence. In this study, the concept of emotional presence is examined. This examination occurs within the Relationship of Inquiry framework, developed to analyze one-to-one online coaching. A survey of online coaches and a transcript coding procedure from the online coaching service Math Coach provide the data for the study. The results indicate that a Relationship of Inquiry framework consisting of cognitive, social, teaching, and emotional presence enhances the exploration of one-to-one online coaching settings. The interpretation of these results identifies emotional presence as an essential and distinct part of one-to-one online math coaching.
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AbstractOne purpose of higher education is to prepare students for a modern and ever-changing global society with increasing complexity and collaborative environments. Scrum is a widely used framework for project management dealing with... more
AbstractOne purpose of higher education is to prepare students for a modern and ever-changing global society with increasing complexity and collaborative environments. Scrum is a widely used framework for project management dealing with development of complex products. Few studies have been made on the use of Scrum in higher education. This study examines to what extent distributed Scrum can support online collaborative learning, more exactly what are the advantages and drawbacks on distributed Scrum from a student perspective. Twenty students in an online course has participated in Scrum projects as members in distributed teams. Student’s perceptions was captured using semi-structured interviews. The preliminary results indicate that students are satisfied with Scrum and that they experience a high degree of flexibility. The transparency in Scrum is perceived as a key to open communication and effective collaboration.Keywords: e-learning, online education, Scrum, distributed, colla...
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It is commonly argued that computer-mediated communication (CMC) offers new opportunities for distance students, such as collaborative learning. However, guidelines for when to use different types ...
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Skolforskningsinstitutet arbetar kontinuerligt med att ringa in undervisningsnara amnesomraden dar behovet av vetenskapligt grundad kunskap bedoms vara stort. Det sker i dialog med verksamma i skol ...
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Although there is an abundance of digital education resources, we must find better ways to support learners when and where they have a need.QC 20200806</p
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Exploring the usefulness and ease of use of Internet-delivered cognitive behavior therapy for children and adolescents
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The objective of this chapter is to explore the function that students’ mobile phone use can have, and how the use of mobile phones could be structured in a tenable way, related to school tasks. Hence, we have defined and examined the... more
The objective of this chapter is to explore the function that students’ mobile phone use can have, and how the use of mobile phones could be structured in a tenable way, related to school tasks. Hence, we have defined and examined the following research questions: (1) What functions related to school tasks do students and teachers express that mobile phone use can have? (2) How do they express that mobile phone use needs to be structured in school tasks? To explore these questions, we have adopted an activity theoretical perspective and used qualitative methods based on interviews. The results show that the use of mobile phones can offer both supporting functions and functions with considerable tensions related to school tasks. The expressed supportive functions have been categorized as supporting memory, communication, and understanding. Meanwhile, mobile use can be critical because of ethical issues, limited capacity, distraction risks, and cost for students. All teachers and students have agreed that mobile phone use at school must be structured to be used in supportive ways related to school assignments. However, they have expressed different strategies and disagreements about how rules could be applied in school practice.
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Research Interests: Psychology, Computer Science, Information Retrieval, Education, Higher Education, and 10 moreSocial Media, Online Education, Collaborative Learning, Instant Messaging, Face to Face, Group work, Learning Management System, teaching Strategies, Student Perception, and Information & Communication Technologies In Education ICT&E
... In fact, online students access many times more messages than they reply to (Goldman, Crosby,Swan and Shea 2005). Learning may, for example, occur when students observe the actions of their peers and the results of these actions... more
... In fact, online students access many times more messages than they reply to (Goldman, Crosby,Swan and Shea 2005). Learning may, for example, occur when students observe the actions of their peers and the results of these actions (Sutton 2001). ...
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Using distributed Scrum for supporting online community : A qualitative descriptive study of students’ perceptions
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Contemporary organizations are often permeated by changes that involve decentralization. Organizations’ PR practitioners are consequently searching for communication processes that promote interactivity and employee engagement. The... more
Contemporary organizations are often permeated by changes that involve decentralization. Organizations’ PR practitioners are consequently searching for communication processes that promote interactivity and employee engagement. The company in this study has implemented an interactive video website in order to internally communicate the company’s core values and to get access to how employees have already implemented the core values in their daily work. The interest for using new technology within organizations has surged as IT infrastructures has improved. Surprisingly, there have been rather few studies on such emerging technologies in organizational settings. In this research-in-progress paper, we explore the impact of the use of an interactive video website, comprising four videos promoting a company’s core values, on employee interactivity and communicative engagement. Two web surveys are being designed for the study. We are also conducting interviews and observations. Here we p...
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This paper is a response and considers practical and design implications of the article, The process of designing for learning: understanding university teachers’ design work by Bennett et al. (Educ Technol Res Dev 65:125–145, 2017).... more
This paper is a response and considers practical and design implications of the article, The process of designing for learning: understanding university teachers’ design work by Bennett et al. (Educ Technol Res Dev 65:125–145, 2017). Bennett et al. guide us in better understanding teachers’ design practices and in discussions on how such practices could be improved. A key contribution of the article is presenting a descriptive model of the design process. As such, the article is focused on teachers’ current design work, while giving more limited attention to how teachers’ design practice could be improved. When looking forward, this response emphasizes that teachers should be encouraged to inform their designs for learning and iteratively improve their designs based on reflection and evaluation. If teachers take time to look into what is known and deliberately learn more along the way through reflection and evaluation, they will improve their understanding of how to design for learn...
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Online tutoring has been found to have a positive impact on student learning in STEM education. The aim of this study was to explore how and to what extent students supported their own and other students' processes of inquiry during... more
Online tutoring has been found to have a positive impact on student learning in STEM education. The aim of this study was to explore how and to what extent students supported their own and other students' processes of inquiry during online tutoring. More specifically, question and answer sessions (Q&As) were studied, and online tutoring transcripts were analyzed using the Relationship of Inquiry coding scheme adapted from the Community of Inquiry framework. The students interacted voluntarily with each other and with the teachers. The results show that the students supported both their own process of inquiry as well as other students' process of inquiry. Furthermore, the results indicate that students acquired metacognitive development through self- and co-regulation when they expressed teaching presence. Overall, we conclude that Q&As have the potential to support student learning when working on assignments in STEM education.
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In this presentation, an application where digital badges are used for continuing training of online tutors is reviewed. First, we present how digital badges are used in a math tutoring service for ...
Same, same but different - A Longitudinal Study of Group Work in a Distance Learning Course
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Mathcoach (www.mattecoach.se) and Swedishcoach (www.svenskacoach.se) offers K-12 students help with their homework in Swedish for immigrants and mathematics online. The coaches are all students at ...
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Design science research is an essential part of IS research since the field should not only try to understand how the world is but also how to change it. We argue that the aim of IS design science ...
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Asynchronous and synchronous e-learning : A study of asynchronous and synchronous e-learning methods discovered that each supports different purposes
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The interest in audio and video technologies has surged as IT infrastructures and network capacities have improved. Surprisingly, there have been rather few studies on such emerging technologies i ...
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Most researchers seem too agree on the usefulness of asynchronous media in online education.However, recently some have called for mixed media approchaes since each medium of communication may priv ...
Syftet med denna workshop ar att ge forskare fran olika larosaten mojlighet att samverka och att framja framvaxten av nya forskningssamarbeten inom omradet IT och larande i hogre utbildning. Natverket forskning om IT i hogre utbildning... more
Syftet med denna workshop ar att ge forskare fran olika larosaten mojlighet att samverka och att framja framvaxten av nya forskningssamarbeten inom omradet IT och larande i hogre utbildning. Natverket forskning om IT i hogre utbildning bildades 2010 med syfte att underlatta kontakter mellan forskare inom Sverige. Flera projekt och ansokningar blev resultatet av natverkets kontakter. NU2012 innebar en fornyad mojlighet att lara om andras forskningsomraden och en mojlighet till att initiera nya grupperingar som kan mynna ut i storre forskningssamarbeten, gemensamma ansokningar och ett starkt natverk. Som forskare ar du valkommen att delta i workshopen oavsett om du ar medlem i natverket eller inte. Aven praktiker som ar intresserade av forskning ar valkomna att delta i workshopen.Den pagaende nationella forskningen om IT och larande inom hogre utbildning karaktariseras inte enbart av att vara geografisk spridd utan aven av att vara splittrad mellan olika vetenskapliga discipliner, s...
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The Swedish National Graduate School for Digital Technologies in Education (GRADE) is a cooperative venture between six Swedish universities established during 2018. Within the field of educational ...
It is commonly argued that a key challenge for e-learning is to encourage learner participation. Even though this challenge has received increased attention by researchers, little effort has been p ...
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Initial internet-based cognitive behavioral therapy (iCBT) programs for anxiety disorders in children and young people (CYP) have been developed and evaluated, however these have not yet been widely adopted in routine practice. The lack... more
Initial internet-based cognitive behavioral therapy (iCBT) programs for anxiety disorders in children and young people (CYP) have been developed and evaluated, however these have not yet been widely adopted in routine practice. The lack of guidance and formalized approaches to the development and dissemination of iCBT has arguably contributed to the difficulty in developing iCBT that is scalable and sustainable beyond academic evaluation and that can ultimately be adopted by healthcare providers. This paper presents a consensus statement and recommendations from a workshop of international experts in CYP anxiety and iCBT (#iCBTLorentz Workshop Group) on the development, evaluation, engagement and dissemination of iCBT for anxiety in CYP.
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Abstract: In order to study the complexity and dependence on cultural, geographical, social and technological aspects on e-Learning implementation, we performed a joint research between an Argentinean and a Swedish university to compare... more
Abstract: In order to study the complexity and dependence on cultural, geographical, social and technological aspects on e-Learning implementation, we performed a joint research between an Argentinean and a Swedish university to compare teachers&#x27; perception of ...
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Abstract: In order to study the complexity and dependence on cultural, geographical, social and technological aspects on e-Learning implementation, we performed a joint research between an Argentinean and a Swedish university to compare... more
Abstract: In order to study the complexity and dependence on cultural, geographical, social and technological aspects on e-Learning implementation, we performed a joint research between an Argentinean and a Swedish university to compare teachers&#x27; perception of ...
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