This document provides information about the staff, research networks, educational programs, and research areas of the Learning, Communication and IT department at the University of Gothenburg. It lists the postdocs, professors, PhD students, and visiting researchers in the department. It also describes the Linnaeus Centre for Research on Learning, Interaction and Mediated Communication as the main research network and collaboration. The department is involved in the Learning priority research area and the Centre for Language Technology at the University of Gothenburg. It offers educational programs in learning, teaching and IT as well as a master's program in learning, communication and IT. The department conducts research on a variety of topics related to learning and technology including digital literacy, mobile

1. Learning, communication & IT
updated feb 2013
updated feb 2013

2. Staff
• Post Docs/Researchers/Senior researchers
• Prof. Berner Lindström
• Johan Lundin, PhD, associate prof.
• Alexandra Weilenmann, PhD, associate prof.
• Mathias Klang, PhD, associate prof.
• Wolmet Barendtregt, PhD
• Ylva Hård af Segerstad, PhD

3. Staff
• Marisa Ponti, PhD (post doc. Oslo)
• Lars Svensson, PhD, associate prof. , (Visiting)
• Ulrika Lundh Snis, PhD (Visiting)
• Barry Brown, PhD, (Visiting)
• Patrik Lilja, PhD
• Teachers (besides research staff)
• Mattias von Feilitzen

4. PhD-students
• PhD Students
• Catarina Player-Koro (disp. 2012)
• Göran Karlsson (disp. 2012)
• Patrik Lilja (disp. 2012
• Lena Dafgård (disp. 2013)
• Anne Öhman (lic. 2013)
• Anna-Lena Godhe (disp. 2014)
•Torbjörn Ott (lic. 2014)
•Martin Tallvid (disp. 2014)
•Beata Jungselius (disp. 2015)
•Leona Johansson Bunting (disp. 2016)
•Therese Haglind (lic. 2016)
•Sofia Serholt (disp. 2016)
•Lisa Adamsson (disp. 2019)

5. Research networks and
collaboration
• LinCS (The Linnaeus Centre for Research on Learning, Interaction and
Mediated Communication in Contemporary Society) is a national centre of
excellence funded by The Swedish Research Council (total app. 50 people)
• Berner Lindström,Wolmet Barendtregt,Ylva Hård af Segerstad, Johan
Lundin,Alexandra Weilenmann, Marisa Ponti, Patrik Lilja, Martin Tallvid,
Anna-Lena Godhe, Göran Karlsson,
• Part of the Learning - priority research area, at GU.
• Part of the Centre for LanguageTechnology, at GU

6. Educational
programmes
• Learning, teaching and IT - one of the orientations of the teachers
programme at University of Gothenburg, LP 01.
• Learning, communication and IT - Master programme (magister), web
based

7. PhD Education
• Applied IT - orientation towards educational research
• Center for educational research och teacher research - the
theme “New media, teaching and learning (MUL)”
• Collaboration between: LCIT at dep. of applied IT - LinCS -
and researchers and PhD students at Univ. of Gothenburg as
well as Chalmers University.
• 5-10 PhD students

8. Gothenburg Knowledge LAB
Education Research
ExperimentsDevelopment
• Designing for learning with digital
tools
• courses, workshops, seminars, visits
• research projects, support for data
collection, design based research
• development projects, educational
development, teacher development
• teachers educational experiments,
technological driven
experimentation

9. Games
• How do we learn to game and how do we learn
through gaming
• Developing new games, how to design fun games for
learning
• Use of games for learning, at home and in educational
settings
• Evaluations, do we learn more through gaming,
perspetions of quality

10. Mobile Technology
• Mobile services for interaction, communication
and learning
• Students’ mobile and personal technologies
• One-to-one in schools
• Writing and learning to write on mobile devices

11. Learning environments
• Infrastructures for learning
• Learning in different ”subject-matter”
domains (mathematics and science)
• Video and videopapers in teacher training
• Project based work and IT
• IT and learning elementary mathematics

12. Digital text and Literacy
• Children´s delvelopment of””new”
literacies in and out of school
• Trageton-pedagogy -Writing to read
• Digital story-telling
• CALL – video in SL learning
• CALL –Wikis learning technical English

13. Open and flexible learning
• Distance education and flexible learning – a
policy analysis
• Quality in higher education
• Digital resources / multimedia (OER)
• IT and learning and teaching in higher
education

14. IT and learning at work
• IT and training in industry
• Teacher competence in using IT
• IT to support teachers competence
development
• Systems for knowledge and competence
management