Lars Svensson

The analogue disruption of digitalization : the Local bases of the hospitality industry in a Global economy

There are vital challenges for organization undergoing digital transformation, especially those that rely more and more on the ever-evolving platfo...

Teaching vocational pupils in their pyjamas : a socio-material perspective on challenges in the age of Covid-19

Purpose  Due to the global outbreak of Covid-19, Swedish teachers in upper secondary education were forced to conduct emergency remote teaching. As...

Where do we go from here? : Didactic and organizational questions after the pandemic

COVID-19 changed the educational landscape as we know it. Due to the radical transformation of schooling, there is an imminent question of what...

Action design research as a means for organizing workplace learning : case studies of e-learning platforms

Purpose Although there is a large body of literature available on the foundations of workplace learning (WPL), little is known about designated...

Meta-requirements for Immersive Collaborative Spaces in Industrial Workplace Learning : Towards a Design Theory

As the digital transformation of society accelerates, sophisticated Information Technologies (IT) emerge and are introduced into organizations and...

Samverkansmodell för Arbetsintegrerat Lärande i Forskarutbildning : En ökad samhällsrelevans genom interaktiva flöden

Universiteten i Sverige och övriga världen måste ständigt se över former för förbättrat utbyte med det omgivande samhället. Strategier för samverka...

Flipped healthcare for better or worse

The medical profession is highly specialized, demanding continuous learning, while also undergoing rapid development in the rise of data-driven...

Towards Excellence in Flexible Education : Identifying Challenges for the Digital University

The research presented in this paper draws on data from the early phases of a unique development program at a Scandinavian University. In 2018, the...

Work-Integrated Learning as an Outcome of Using Action Design Research in Practice

This paper highlights Work-Integrated Learning (WIL) as an outcome of using Action Design Research (ADR) in practice. We argue that ADR is a subtyp...

A first step towards a model for teachers' adoption of ICT pedagogy in schools.

It is important to identify and understand important factors underpinning the integration of information and communication technology (ICT) in...

An eye for an I : a framework with focus on the integration of work and learning in higher education

Higher education plays a new role in the society and the highly specialized labor market, and higher education institutes are expected to interact...

Collaboration Model for Work-Integrated Learning in Higher Education 3rd Cycle

Universities need to constantly accommodate new forms of collaboration with society. Interaction with and impacts on society and practice are of...

Digitaliseringen i skolan : möjligheter och utmaningar

Nursing and learning : healthcare pedagogics and work-integrated learning

Purpose The purpose of this paper is twofold: to describe work-integrated learning (WIL) related to healthcare pedagogics, and to describe the...

On the Swedish national graduate school for digital technologies in education - GRADE : Expectations and experiences of doctoral students and supervisors

The Swedish National Graduate School for Digital Technologies in Education (GRADE) is a cooperative venture between six Swedish universities...

Work-integrated Learning : Increasing societal impact by decreasing the gap between research and practice

In this paper we outline models for conducting work-integrated learning research. Our experiences from two decades of doing research in close...

E-quality in infrastructures for learning in higher education

Higher Education has through the last decades been increasingly dependent on digital infrastructures (e.g. Svensson, 2002a; Guribye, 2005). The fir...

ICT as support for learning : demanding new competence among phycians

The subject of this paper is on emerging challenges and opportunities related to digitalization of work and learning in healthcare. Physicians are ...

Supporting nomadic work- and study practices in groupware design

This brief paper concerns the design of real-time collaborative systems adhering to a nomadic work- and study practice. Nomadic practices can be...

A Boundary Practice Perspective on Co-creation of ICT Innovations

Research has shown that collaboration and co-creation among different groups of stakeholders add complexity and challenges to the innovation proces...

An information systems design theory for adaptabe E-learning

An Information Systems Design Theory is a prescriptive theory that offers theory-based principles, which can guide practitioners and scholars in th...

Measuring teacher's use of IT in higher education

The paper proposes metrics for measuring higher education teacher’s use of information technology. Understanding adoption of technology, within any...

Proceedings of IRIS39, Information Systems Research Seminar in Scandinavia, Ljungskile, August 7-10, 2016

Students’ technologies in practice : A participant perspective of mobile IT in higher education

We argue that the availability and penetration of mobile technology in society in general, and among young persons in particular, have consequences...

Teacher's use and attituteds of IC in higher education : exploring campus and distance education

The rapid growth of online education has on many levels affected the professional role of all teachers in higher education. For the online educator...

The development of mobilizing pedagogical strategies

In contemporary society, questions are often raised about the relation between education and integration of immigrants and people with a foreign...

Understanding the adoption of digitalized pratices

During the last decades, digital technologies has become an increasingly important part of our private and professional life. Consequently,...

Work-based learning through negotiated projects : Exploring learning at the boundary

Purpose More collaborative and open learning models are suggested as part of the paradigm shift in the way knowledge is produced, distributed and...

Attitudes towards IT and use of LMS in Teacher Education : A Swedish case study

In this paper we explore the relation between attitude and use of a university-wide Learning Management System (LMS) among faculty members engaged ...

Design Guidelines Through Educational Mining

Great effort is put into improving online education, focusing on how students learn and how teachers' can help the students' to be effective in tha...

Exploring the Relationship between Sanctioned and Unsanctioned Laptop use in a 1:1 Classroom

The research reported in this article explores and discusses students' use of laptops in a 1:1 setting. A problem experienced by teachers is that t...

Framtidens digitala klassrum

Improved Quality Output through Computer-Based Training : An Automotive Assembly Field Study

In this article, two field experiments, conducted in an automotive assembly plant, evaluate how computer-based training of operational sequences an...

Laptops in classroom interaction : Deconstructing the networked situation

The screen, as part of networked technologies such as phones, tablets and laptops is at present a debated subject as it affects how people behave i...

Presenting the Kludd : A Shared Workspace for Collaboration

In this poster, we would like to present the current state of the Kludd system. Kludd is a web-based collaboration tool, enabling users to...

The Goalkeeper : a tool for monitoring learning outcomes in PhD education

The journey from being a new Ph. D.-candidate towards passing the doctorate grade is often a bumpy road with both unexpected and complex challenges...

The Illusion of Structure : About Harmonization and Variation in Competence Management System Practices in a Public Healthcare Organization

This paper reports on a study of the use of a competence management system in a public healthcare organization. Even though systems for documenting...

The illusion of structure : about harmonization and variation in competence management system practices in a public healthcare organization

This paper reports on a study of the use of a competence management system in a public healthcare organization. Even though systems for documenting...

Conceptualizing the Essence of Presence in Distance Education through Digital Dasein

In order to achieve learning, presence is necessary. If we have good presence, no tests are necessary. In distance learning, the concept of presenc...

Designing a Web-Based Education Platform for Swedish Civic Orientation

Newcomers in Sweden face a problem of learning the Swedish society with respect to laws, culture, democratic values, education system, labor market...

Designing for Heterogeneous Groups of End-Users Towards a Nascent Design Theory

Poverty, war, conflicts, and other forces of global turmoil are constantly challenging how developed nations design their processes for immigration...

E-learning Readiness and Absorptive Capacity in the Manufacturing Industry

The manufacturing industry constantly strive to develop the competencies of their expert production engineers in order to achieve and maintain a...

E-training through web lectures

This paper sets out to inform how technology can be designed to support formal workplace training by acknowledging the context of every day work. T...

Framtidens klassrum. : En experimentell ansats för verksamhetsutveckling och digital innovation i morgondagens skola

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Managing the Digitalization of Schools : an explorative study of school principals’ and IT-managers’ perceptions

The deployment of ICT in school setting is in many ways a complex managerial task that involves several stakeholder groups. Firstly, principals and...

Managing the Digitalization of Schools : an exploratory study of school principals’ and IT managers’ perceptions about ICT adoption and usefulness

In nowadays increasingly ICT-related investments in an overgrowing competitive school setting, the deployment, maintenance, and particularly the...

MOOCs for Professional Teacher Development

A MOOC is a trending concept in education that is disrupting traditional methods oflearning consumption. The emergence and use of MOOCs for...

Navigating in a new pedagogical landscape with an introductory course in applied statistics.

During the last few decades, a great deal of effort has been put into improving statistical education, focusing on how students learn statistics an...

Re-thinking the LMS : Designing for Engaged Collaboration

While there has been extensive research done on technology supporting communication and interaction in online higher education, this research focus...