Time to start writing another popular science book chapter!
In the middle of August my colleague Ann-Sofie Hellberg and I submitted a proposal for a popular science book chapter, hoping that it would be considered for inclusion in a book focusing on digitalization of education. A few days ago we got a notification that our proposal had been accepted, so now it’s time to start writing the real chapter!
The book will include several short chapters written by teachers all around the world and the focus will be on experiences with and evaluations of digital learning. As I wrote in this blog post quite a while back, I have contributed to a chapter in the popular science book Digitalisering av högre utbildning [Digitalization of higher education]. That time around I wrote about experiences from using Twitter as a complementary communication channel in a course in communication that I held at KTH. This new book seems to be very similar, since teachers are writing for teachers.
We have not decided on the details yet, but the book chapter will focus on experiences with teaching a course in interaction design online and a special emphasis will be placed on support for communication between course participants. I will of course get back to this as work progresses. Hopefully, the complete version of the chapter will be included in the upcoming book.
Further on, we will also produce at least one scientific publication about the experiences of teaching project courses online, but interviews with some students will be needed as additional input before that work can start. The work with the scientific publication will be a part of the overall research effort around effects of Covid-19 on education at the department of Informatics at Örebro University.