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- Granholm, Martina, 1969-
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Verksamhetens påverkan på post-adoptiva teknikval
- 2022
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Digitalisering beskrivs som en möjlighet att lösa samhällsproblem genom att stödja och utveckla verksamheter. Det visar sig bland annat genom investeringar i informationsteknologiska lösningar i samhället. Ny teknik skapas och befintliga digitala lösningar vidareutvecklas men hur kan vi veta att dessa digitala lösningar kommer att användas? Hur teknik sprids och hur individer och organisationer väljer att börja använda ett verktyg (adoption) är frågeställningar som informationssystemforskare har studerat under många årtionden. Tidigare forskning har fokuserat på teknikens, individens eller organisationens egenskaper och hur dessa inverkar på både teknikspridning och adoption av teknik. Den här avhandlingen väljer att förflytta perspektiv på två sätt. Det första perspektivet handlar om adoption. Adoption av teknik handlar om valet att börja använda en ny teknik. I den här avhandlingen har fokus varit inställt på post-adoption. Det vill säga vad är det som påverkar ett val mellan olika tekniker som användaren redan har börjat att använda. Den andra förflyttningen av perspektiv är att inte fokusera på teknikens, individens eller organisationens egenskaper. Istället har den här avhandlingen fokuserat på verksamheten som aktivitet. Avhandlingens studieobjekt har varit den lokala nivån i den svenska krisberedskapen. Syfte har varit att förstå hur verksamheten påverkar medarbetarnas val mellan befintliga tekniker. Följande fråga har drivit arbetet:Hur påverkar krisberedskapspraktiken de institutionella aktörernas post-adoptiva teknikval? Arbetet har haft en kvalitativ ansats där data har genererats genom observationer, intervjuer och dokumentstudier. Avhandlingen omfattar sju artiklar som var och en presenterar resultat som framkommit under de studier som genomförts. Den genererade datamängden har i avhandlingen aggregerats för att möjliggöra en övergripande analys ur ett aktivitetsteoretiskt perspektiv. Resultatet visar att ett verksamhetsperspektiv ger goda insikter i de val av teknik som görs av medarbetarna. Verksamhetsbaserade faktorer som normskillnader, regelverk och arbetsfördelning kan ses påverka medarbetaren i dennes val av teknik. Även platsen där verksamheten bedrivs påverkar teknikvalet genom sina möjligheter och begränsningar.
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- Ahlin, Karin, 1963-
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Benefits of Digital Technical Information
- 2020
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In our daily work life, we use a wealth of information, including a category of information produced as a part of products and their life-cycle phases, named digital technical information (DTI). Manufacturing organizations focus more often on the product than on DTI, because DTI’s impact seems almost invisible, despite its crucial role to the product and its life-cycle phases, development, production, maintenance, and destruction. Hence, the aim of this thesis is to describe DTI’s benefits and the research questions: “What are the benefits of the DTI?” and “What are the perceptions of how to measure benefits of DTI?” The thesis contains five studies related to identifying and measuring DTI’s benefits. The empirical material is based on semi-structured interviews and group interviews within five organizations and a survey among manufacturing organizations in Sweden.I used three characteristics of the DTI and two pairs of previously known benefit categories to analyse the benefits. The analysis shows that the benefits are recognized in the particular product’s life cycle phase where the DTI is published. However, the DTI continues to offer benefits in the product’s other life cycle phases. In relationship to the product, the benefits evolve from supporting an individual product to supporting more general product lines or all products and a more complex product is said to increase DTI’s benefits. DTI’s structure adds benefits as synthesized or aggregated DTI, where the DTI is synthesized or aggregated automatically or manually. The categorization predetermined benefits related to the change are less numerous than the emerging benefits. The predetermined benefits are strategic by nature, and the emerging ones are mainly used to achieve operational goals. Measuring DTI’s benefits is of importance for a formal comparison of its development and is of special interest for managers. Perceptions from the initial stages on how to measure show that to establish common interpretations among the stakeholders of the measurement process is of importance, especially when it comes to what is viewed as a benefit. The benefits are viewed as intangible by the respondents, which creates difficulties when one is evaluating, using conventional measurement methods. The only perceived way to measure is when DTI reduces co-worker’s workload and efficiency is achieved. The thesis’s contribution to academia consists of the analysis of DTI’s benefits, showing details of the relationships between the DTI and its benefits. For practice, the contributions focus on the systematic evaluation process, which can be used for further development of the DTI and comparison of the evolvement of the DTI itself and relating to other resources. One proposal for future research is to use the analysed benefits and compare various approaches to digitizing DTI, e.g. Industry 4.0. Another proposal is to list, in detail, various ways on how to measure DTI’s benefits and their usefulness. The latter can positively impact on any intangible benefits due to the general approach we have established of how to measure those benefits.
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- Bonderup Dohn, Nina, et al.
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Conclusion : Emerging themes in sustainable networked learning
- 2023
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Ingår i: Sustainable networked learning. - Cham, Switwerland : Springer Nature. - 9783031427176 - 9783031427183 ; , s. 265-279
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this concluding chapter, we point to themes that emerge from the chapters in this book on sustainable networked learning. The themes cut across different sections of the book, indicating their broader significance. These themes are the lasting effects of lockdown online teaching; Digital sustainability for the future; Future roles of networked learning in society; Balancing utopia and dystopia in visions of AI and open data; Speculative methods in research, education and design; and Balancing qualitative and quantitative data in the research of networked educational settings: Studies at the community and project levels.
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Configuration Management i teknikinformationens tjänst : - en antologi
- 2013
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- CM eller på svenska konfi gurationsledningär ett systematiskt sätt att hålla redapå ”vad man har”, ”hur det sitter ihop”och ”var det fi nns” så att det går att hittaigen krav, specifi kationer, ritningar ochhandböcker den dag när man behöver det.Boken Confi guration Management i teknikinformationenstjänst spänner över beskrivningarav CM, genomgång av viktigaförmågor för att arbeta med CM, exempelpå CM-implementationer, detaljerade förslagpå hur man kan arbeta med konkretaCM-aktiviteter, beskrivningar av nyttanav CM och vad som driver behov av CMsamt ett kapitel med en diskussion kringframtida utmaningar inom CM-området.Boken är skriven i antologiform vilketgör att det ryms många olika perspektiv iboken som hämtats från både forskningsresultatoch mångårig praktisk erfarenheti olika typer av verksamheter.
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- Dobslaw, Felix, 1983-, et al.
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The Gap between Higher Education and the Software Industry - A Case Study on Technology Differences
- 2023
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Ingår i: ACM International Conference Proceeding Series. - : Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). - 9781450399562 ; , s. 11-21
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- We see an explosive global labour demand in the Software Industry, and higher education institutions play a crucial role in supplying the industry with professionals with relevant education. Existing literature identifies a gap between what software engineering education teaches students and what the software industry demands. Using our open-sourced Job Market AnalyseR (JMAR) text-analysis tool, we compared keywords from higher education course syllabi and job posts to investigate the knowledge gap from a technology-focused departure point. We present a trend analysis of technology in job posts over the past six years in Sweden. We found that demand for cloud and automation technology such as Kubernetes and Docker is rising in job ads but not that much in higher education syllabi. The language used in higher education syllabi and job ads differs where the former emphasizes concepts and the latter technologies more heavily. We discuss possible remedies to bridge this mismatch to draw further conclusions in future work, including calibrating JMAR to other industry-relevant aspects, including soft skills, software concepts, or new demographics.
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- Humble, Niklas
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Programming in grade 7-9 : Action possibilities and constraints from the perspective of mathematics and technology teachers
- 2023
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The idea of using programming in fields outside of computer science is not new, but it has received renewed attention with the global trend of integrating programming in school curricula. In the Swedish context, mathematics and technology teachers for grades 7-9 have been significantly affected by the integration of programming. Previous research has highlighted the opportunities and challenges presented by this integration and shown that programming is a relevant skill for students to acquire, but it also shows that teachers often lack knowledge, skill and guidance for this integration. The knowledge object of the thesis is to develop knowledge about teachers’ perceived affordances (action possibilities) and constraints in using programming in grade 7-9 mathematics and technology. The thesis includes five papers and uses a qualitative approach to identify action possibilities and constraints of using programming in grade 7-9 mathematics and technology. These action possibilities and constraints relate to three aspects of teaching and learning: subject content, motivation and engagement, and digital competence. Together, the findings provide a conceptual model for what programming can be used for in grade 7-9 mathematics and technology. This conceptual model, which incorporates action possibilities and constraints of programming related to the three aspects of teaching and learning mentioned above, represents the contribution of the thesis. The thesis provides new insights into the understanding of teachers’ use and perceptions of programming for teaching and learning in grade 7-9 mathematics and technology (the study object). The thesis also has practical implications for the future design of professional development courses on programming for teachers and how programming should be used and integrated in an educational context.
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- Jaldemark, Jimmy, Docent, 1970-, et al.
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Introduction
- 2023
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Ingår i: Sustainable networked learning. - Cham, Switwerland : Springer Nature. - 9783031427176 - 9783031427183 ; , s. 1-15
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The present book has emerged from the 13th International Conference on Networked Learning (NLC, 2022), held 16–18 May 2022 at Mid-Sweden University, Sundsvall, Sweden. The conference had a high number of interesting, high-quality research papers, which made it a difficult task to select papers to be further developed into chapters for this book. To aid our editorial decisions, in the final plenary session of the conference, we encouraged the delegates to discuss what themes and ideas they had found most interesting and/or thought-provoking during the many presentations. Comments were collated on an online board (a padlet), creating a rich plethora of potential focal points for this volume. With this as the outset, we found a set of overarching themes that each encompassed a sufficient number of papers corresponding to delegates’ articulated interests. From there, the process leading to the present collection included several rounds of reviews and revisions through which authors of the chosen papers further developed their contributions.
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- Lindberg, Ylva, et al.
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The future scribe : Learning to write the world
- 2023
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Ingår i: Frontiers in Education. - : Frontiers Media SA. - 2504-284X. ; 8
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study takes its point of departure in academic scholarship that points to how programming – reading and writing code – is the literacy of the future, in other words, non-specialized competence that should be acquired in education in parity with traditional reading and writing skills. The goal is to shed light on how programming can be orchestrated in education to break with the outworn dichotomy between the ‘two cultures’ that C. P. Snow formulated as a gap between, on the one hand, natural sciences, mathematics, and technology, and, on the other hand, the humanities, and social sciences. A discursive analysis of Swedish policy documents and curricula forms the empirical ground for discussing how reading and writing code are introduced, taught, and learnt within Swedish compulsory school. The results show that Swedish curricula are framing programming as specialized knowledge within technology and mathematics, rather than allowing it to be a dimension of several subjects, such as the humanities and social sciences. These findings are discussed in the light of recent studies in education that have explored interrelations between coding and reading and writing texts. The discussion leads up to suggestions for implementing reading and writing code as digital literacy in education.
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