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Marianne Bjoern

Marianne holds a M.Sc. in Education from Uppsala University and a B.Sc. in Computer Science from Jonkoping University. At present, she is a doctoral candidate at the school of Education at Vaxjo University. Her research interests concerns students with reading and writing difficulties/dyslexia, their learning process, and how to support/enhance their learning by the means of assistive technologies. She is also exploring the interplay between learning theories and the design of interactive learning environments, and how to make these environments accessible to people with reading and writing difficulties. In addition of being a member of CeLeKT, Marianne belongs also to the groups Laesutveckling Kronoberg within the profile Special Education and Pedagogics with specialisation in Treatment and Care of Juveniles and Substance Abusers at the same institution.


Marianne has earlier been working in a couple of EU funded projects with regard to the use of ICT as a tool to support learning. One project, COLDEX, COllaborative Learning and Distributed EXperimentation, aimed at developing and using new IT approaches and computational tools to foster scientific experimentation, modelling and simulation in distributed collaborative setting with local student groups doing experiments locally and on a distance while participating in a global knowledge exchange. The other project, Focus Alfa, was directed towards adults with reading and writing difficulties learning an additional language. Three countries participated, trying out new methodologies for teaching English as a foreign language and how to use assistive technologies to support the learning process. Currently, Marianne is involved in another EU funded project, CallDysc, that explores novel ways of using mobile technologies (e.g. phones or PSP) to teach students with dyslexia an additional language.

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Latest publications

Milrad, M., Bjoern, M., & Jackson, M. H. (2005). Designing networked learning environments to support intercultural communication and collaboration in science learning. International Journal of Web Based Communities, Volume 1, Issue 3, pp. 308-319. InderScience.

Björn, M., Karlsson, M., Wichmann, A., Otero, N., Milrad,M., Oelinger, M. & Hoppe, U. (2005). COLDEX, Collaborative Learning and Distributed Experimentation, Deliverable Number: D.8.3.1 Evaluation Report. Information Society Technologies Programme, EU Project number: IST-2001-32327.

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Researchers

Jorge de Sousa Pires

Andreas Kerren

David Metcalf

Marcelo Milrad

Anita Mirijamdotter

Simon Winter


PhD Students

Marianne Bjoern

Didac Gil

Ilir Jusufi

Miranda Kajtazi

Arianit Kurti

Osama Mansour

Oskar Pettersson

Daniel Spikol

Martin Svensson

Anna Wingkvist

Jorge L. Zapico


Research Assistants

David Johansson

Katrin Lindwall

Sadaf Salavati

Bahtijar Vogel


Others

Richard Guilfoyle


Students

Martin Hult

Magnus Persson

Flavio Ruvalcaba


Former members

Martin Maczkowski

Louise Roth

Per Flensburg

Astrid Wichmann

Andreas Jeansson

Fredrik Alserin

Jonas Gustafsson

Philipp Rossmanith

Marine Karlsson

Carina Hallqvist

Taha Taha

Gunnar Mosnik

Ola Andersson