Crina Damşa
Crina Damşa is Professor of Learning Sciences and Technologies at the Department of Education and Associate Dean of Innovation and Digitalization at the Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Oslo. Her research focuses on student learning, design of learning environments and use of digital-material resources in higher education teaching and learning activities. Her work highlights learning through collaboration, and inquiry- and research-based activities, and connections of course design with pedagogical and disciplinary perspectives. Recent publications highlight ways of introducing students to the practices and knowledge of various domains (software engineering, teaching, law) and how design for learning can happen in order to foster student engagement and agentic conduct.
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information from multiple textual sources for writing a new text. This study investigates the way groups of secondary education students use semantic information from multiple sources, while undertaking a collaborative, computer-supported writing history task. We analyzed the products of 10 groups (32 students) and the chat discussions of the group members, and we assessed the quality of the group products. The results of the study offer an insight into how students select and integrate semantic information. Most noticeable results show that groups synthesized the information selected from sources based on ideas rather than sources and created new conceptual connections among these ideas. Relationships were found between the quantity and type of information and the products quality, while weak or no relationships were found between type and frequency of chat talk with the degree of integration in the group products.