Publications

Project reports and publications 

  • Edited volume “Quality Work in Higher Education: Organisational and Pedagogical Dimensions” edited by Mari Elken, Peter Maassen, Monika Nerland, Tine S. Prøitz and Agnete Vabø, published at Springer. Chapters in the volume: 
    • Chapter 1: Researching ‘Quality Work’ in Higher Education by Mari Elken and Bjørn Stensaker
    • Chapter 2: Quality Systems in Higher Education Institutions: Enabling and Constraining Quality Work by Mari Elken, Nicoline Frølich, Peter Maassen and Bjørn Stensaker
    • Chapter 3: The Relationship Between External Quality Assurance and the Work of Study Programme Leaders: A Comparative Study by Per Olaf Aamodt, Ebbe Krogh Graversen, Elisabeth Hovdhaugen, Evanthia Kalpazidou Schmidt, Peter Maassen, and Bjørn Stensaker
    • Chapter 4: Technology as Quality Work? Educational Leaders and Teachers’ Use of Digital Technology by Trine Fossland and Cathrine E. Tømte
    • Chapter 5: Layers of Consistency in Study Programme Planning and Realization by Tine S. Prøitz, Anne Line Wittek, and Thomas de Lange
    • Chapter 6: Exploring Student Participation Challenges in Student-Centred Learning Environments by Monika Nerland
    • Chapter 7: Making Group Learning Work. Processes and Pedagogical Designs in Higher Education by Crina Damşa and Anne Line Wittek
    • Chapter 8: Plenary Teaching: Examining Opportunities for Student Involvement and Knowledge Exploration in Large Classroom-Settings by Thomas de Lange, Anne Line Wittek, and Trine Fossland
    • Chapter 9: What Counts as Quality Feedback? Disciplinary Differences in Students’ and Teachers’ Perceptions of Feedback by Rachelle Esterhazy, Trine Fossland, and Odd-Rune Stalheim
    • Chapter 10: Quality Work: Reflections and Refinements by Mari Elken and Bjørn Stensaker
  • Tømte, C. E., Fossland, T., Aamodt, P.O. & Degn, L. (2019) “Digitalisation in higher education: mapping institutional approaches for teaching and learning” Quality in higher education, online first publication. 
  • Stensaker, B., Hovdhaugen, E., Maassen, P. (2019) “The practices of quality management in Norwegian higher education: Collaboration and control in study programme design and delivery“, International Jounral of Educational Management, 33(4), 698-708.
  • Damsa, C. & de Lange, T. (2019) “Studentsentrerte perspektiver og tiltak i høyere utdanning. Et forskningsbasert innspill til kvalitetsarbeid i praksis“, UNIPED, 42(1).
  • Damsa, C. & de Lange, T. (2019) “Student-centred learning environments in higher education. From conceptualization to design“, UNIPED, 42(1).
  • Stalheim, O.R. & Nordkvelle, Y. (2019) “Skal vi la pasienten døy? Sjukepleiarstudentar sine erfaringar med å handtere utfordringar i simulering“, UNIPED, 42(1).
  • Fossland, T. & Tømte, C. (2019) “Deltaker eller tilskuer? En casestudie om vilkår for deltakelse og samarbeidslæring i et nettbasert masterprogram i økonomi og ledelse (MBA)“, UNIPED, 42(1).
  • Esterhazy, R, & Fiksen. Ø (2019) “Evolution of a portfolio-based design in ecology: a three-year design cycle“, UNIPED, 42(1).
  • Hyytinen, H.,  Haarala-Muhonen, A. & Räisänen, M. (2019) “How do self-regulation and self-efficacy beliefs associate with law students’ experiences of teaching and learning?“, UNIPED, 42(1).
  • Stensaker, B., Elken, M., Maassen, P.”Studieprogramledelse – et spørsmål om organisering?“, UNIPED, 42(1).
  • Lindblom-Ylänne, S. (2019) “The role of research-based evidence in cultivating quality of teaching and learning in higher education“, UNIPED, 42(1).
  • Nerland, M. (2019) “Kvalitetsarbeid i studieprogrammene: fagene som kontekst for studentaktivisering og kunnskapsintegrasjon“, UNIPED, 42(1).
  • Nordkvelle, Yngve Troye; Stalheim, Odd Rune; Fossland, Trine; de Lange, Thomas; Wittek, Anne Line & Nerland, Monika (2019). Simulating: Bridging the Gap Between Practice and Theory in Higher Professional Education, In Karen Trimmer; Tara Newman & Fernando Padró (ed.),  Ensuring Quality in Professional Education Volume I.  Palgrave Macmillan.  ISBN 978-3-030-01095-9.  3.  s 53 – 72
  • Elken, M. & Stensaker, B. (2018) Conceptualising “quality work” in higher education. Quality in Higher Education.
  • Stalheim, O.R. & Nordkvelle, Y. (2018) “I Saved the Patient: Simulation and Self-Efficacy in Health Education”, in Hodges, E. (Ed) Self-Efficacy in Instructional Technology Contexts, Springer. 
  • Esterhazy, R. (2018) What matters for productive feedback? Disciplinary practices and their relational dynamics, Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 43(8), 1302-1314
  • Stensaker, B., Frølich, N. & Aamodt, P. O. (2018) Policy, Perceptions, and Practice: A Study of Educational Leadership and Their Balancing of Expectations and Interests at Micro-level”, published in Higher Education Policy.
  • Nerland, M. & Prøitz, T. S. (2018, eds) “Pathways to quality in higher education. Case studies of educational practices in eight courses” Report 2018:3, Oslo: NIFU/UiO
  • Nerland, M. & Damsa, C. (2019) ‘VET as Lifelong Learning: Engagement with Distributed Knowledge in Software Engineering’.  Guile, D. & L. Unwin, eds, Wiley International Handbook on Vocational Education and Training. Forthcoming, Wiley 2018.
  • Fossland, T. &g Gabrielsen, HC (2017). «Flercampusundervisning» og utdanningsledelse -en balansekunst mellom styring, endring og oversetting i utformingen av et flercampustilbud, I; Torsteinsen, H., Moldenæs, T. og O.J. Andersen (red). Ledelse og skjønnsutøvelse: mellom analyse og intuisjon. Fagbokforlaget
  • Stensaker, B. (2017) Academic development as cultural work – Responding to the organizational complexity of modern higher education institutions. International Journal of Academic Development.
  • Esterhazy, R. & Damsa, C. (2017). Unpacking the feedback process: an analysis of undergraduate students’ interactional meaningmaking of feedback comments. Studies in Higher Education. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2017.1359249
  • Graversen, E.K.; Lyngs, A. R.; Schmidt, E.K.; Ludvigsen, J.V.; Nielsen, M.L.; and Lauridsen, P.S. (2017) Uddannelsesledelse ved danske videregående uddannelsesinstitutioner. Studielederes rolle i uddannelsernes kvalitetsarbejde. CFA, Aarhus Universitet. Available for download here.
  • Aamodt, Per Olaf (2016) Undervisningsvilkår ved universitetene: En analyse av data fra CAP-undersøkelsen. NIFU arbeidsnotat 2016: 15. Available for download here.
  • Aamodt, Per Olaf; Hovdhaugen, Elisabeth; Stensaker, Bjørn, Frølich, Nicoline; Maassen, Peter & Dalseng, Carmen From (2016) Utdanningsledelse. En analyse av ledere av studieprogrammer i høyere utdanning. NIFU arbeidsnotat 2016:10. Available for download here.
  • Hovdhaugen, Elisabeth; Aamodt, Per Olaf, Reymert, Ingvild & Stensaker, Bjørn (2016) Indikatorer på kvalitet i høyere utdanning. NIFU arbeidsnotat 2016:3. Available for download here. 
  • Stensaker, Bjørn & Maassen, Peter (2016) Enhancing modernization in international quality assurance in higher education: a discussion on available trust-building mechanisms. Journal of Higher Education Policy & Management. Vol. 37, no. 1, pp 30-40
  • Solbrekke, Tone Dyrdal & Stensaker, Bjørn (2016)  Utdanningsledelse: Stimulering av et felles engasjement for studieprogrammene? UNIPED, Vol. 39, no. 2, pp 144-157
  • Damşa, Crina; de Lange, Thomas; Elken, Mari; Esterhazy, Rachelle; Fossland, Trine; Frølich, Nicoline; Hovdhaugen, Elisabeth; Maassen, Peter; Nerland, Monika B.; Nordkvelle, Yngve T; Stensaker, Bjørn; Tømte, Cathrine; Vabø, Agnete; Wiers-Jenssen, Jannecke; Aamodt, Per Olaf (2015) “Quality in Norwegian Higher Education: A review of research on aspects affecting student learning” Available for download here.

Presentations at conferences

  • Elken, M. & Stensaker, B. (2018) All student centered now? Analysing institutional teaching and learning policies in Scandinavia, Paper presented at EAIR – The European Higher Education Society: Linking research, policy and practice, Budapest, August 2018.
  • Esterhazy, R. (2018) Portfolio assessment in biology: from design to implementation. Nordic Educational Research Association (NERA) 46th Congress. University of Oslo.
  • Stalheim, O.R. & Nordkvelle, Y. (2018) Simulation in nursing- Enhancing quality through technological training environments. Nordic Educational Research Association (NERA) 46th Congress. University of Oslo.
  • Fossland, T. & Tømte, C. (2018) Participant or observer in an online MBA? Nordic Educational Research Association (NERA) 46th Congress. University of Oslo.
  • Hyytinen, H. & Haarala-Muhonen, A. (2018) Exploring how law students’ regulation of learning is related their experiences of the teaching-learning environment. Nordic Educational Research Association (NERA) 46th Congress. University of Oslo.
  • Prøitz, T. (2018) Elements of study program plans – organising for alignment? Nordic Educational Research Association (NERA) 46th Congress. University of Oslo.
  • Wittek, A.L., de Lange, T., Nerland, M.B., Fossland, T. (2018) Exploring plenary sessions and their potentialities for student learning. Nordic Educational Research Association (NERA) 46th Congress. University of Oslo.
  • Stensaker, B., Elken, M., Maassen, P. (2018) Study program leadership: a matter of organization?. Nordic Educational Research Association (NERA) 46th Congress. University of Oslo.
  • Elken, M, Frølich, N. Maassen, P. & Stensaker, B. (2018)  “Organizing quality work in higher education institutions”, NFHE Conference, Sciences Po, Paris, 12-13- April 2018
  • Vabø, A. (2018) “Disciplinary differences in organising quality work”, NFHE Conference, Sciences Po, Paris, 12-13- April 2018
  • Stalheim, Odd Rune (2018) Simulation in nursing- Enhancing quality through technological training environments, NORSI student research conference, 11-12 January 2018, BI Norwegian Business School, Oslo.
  • Esterhazy, R. & Damsa, C. (2017). Unpacking the feedback process: An analysis of undergraduate students’ interactional meaning-making of feedback comments. Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) Conference (Paper presentation); 2017/11/26 – 2017/11/30, Canberra
  • Esterhazy, R. (2017). Sociocultural perspectives on feedback: How do they help us solve the feedback dilemma? Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning, Deakin University (Research Seminar); 2017/10/31, Melbourne
  • Damşa, C., Vasbø, K.B, Gudmundsdottir, G. (2017, May). Blended learning designs in teacher education. Læringsfestivalen, NTNU, Norway.
  • Damsa, C., Esterhazy, R., Hyytinen, H., Nerland, M., Lindbom, S. (2017). ‘Innovative pedagogical designs for student-centered learning: teachers’ approaches and challenges’. Paper presented in the SIG 4 invited symposium, EARLI 17th Biennial Conference, 2017, 31.08.2017 in Tampere, Finland
  • Esterhazy, Rachelle & Crina Damsa (2017) Students’ interactional meaning-making of assessment feedback viewed through a sociocultural lens. EARLI 2017. Tampere, Finland
  • Tømte, Cathrine; Fossland, Trine; Aamodt, P.O., Degn, Lise (2017) Educational leadership and technology. Findings from surveys in Norway and Denmark. Paper presented at EAIR – The European Higher Education Society: Linking research, policy and practice in Porto, Portugal 3.-6. September 2017.
  • Nerland, M., Damsa, C. (2017). ‘Students’ and beginning professionals’ learning with web-based resources in software engineering’. Paper presented to the EARLI 17th Biennial Conference, 2017, 31.08.2017 in Tampere, Finland.
  • Hyytinen, H., Virtanen, V., Lindblom, S., & Hirvonen, H. (2017).  Biology students’ learning outcomes, self-efficacy beliefs and study success in PBL course. EARLI 17th Biennial Conference, Tampere, Finland
  • Vabø, Agnete; Elken, Mari (2017) Disciplinary differences in organising quality work. Paper presented at a panel presentation at the Consortium for Higher Education Researchers conference, Jyväskylä, 28-30 August
  • Elken, Mari, Stensaker, Bjørn (2017) Quality work in higher education. Paper presented at a panel presentation at the Consortium for Higher Education Researchers conference, Jyväskylä, 28-30 August
  • Hovdhaugen, Elisabeth; Stensaker, Bjørn (2017) The Practices of Quality Management – Collaboration and control of study program delivery. Paper presented at a panel presentation at the Consortium for Higher Education Researchers conference, Jyväskylä, 28-30 August
  • Damşa, C.I., Vasbø, K.B, Gudmundsdottir, G. (2017). Blended learning designs in teacher education. Læringsfestivalen, NTNU, Norway.
  • Maassen, Peter “Change in University Governance in Norway. The development of quality work”, invited presentation on 5 May at the Graduate School of Education, Seoul National University, South Korea.
  • Stalheim, Odd Rune, Nordkvelle, Yngve, T. (2017) ‘Shall we let him die’. Simulation as a method for integrating theory and practice in nursing. Nordic Association for Educational Research conference; 24.03.2017
  • Hovdhaugen, Elisabeth (2016) Patterns of higher education: Student transfer almost as a norm in Norwegian university education» Society for Longitudinal and Lifecourse Studies , Bamberg, Germany, 8/10 -2016
  • Stensaker, Bjørn, Aamodt, Per Olaf, Frølich, Nicoline (2016) The challenge of heading modularized study programmes. NFHE conference at Uppsala 28-29 Sept 2016.
  • Hovdhaugen, Elisabeth (2016) Using process indicators to measure higher education quality. NFHE conference at Uppsala 28-29 Sept 2016.
  • Aamodt, PEr Olaf, Frølich Nicoline (2016) Beyond Bologna? Change processes and change drivers within study programs in Norwegian higher education. NFHE conference at Uppsala 28-29 Sept 2016.
  • Tømte, Cathrine E., Fossland, Trine (2016) The teachers’ role in the changing landscape of technology rich environment.  A Nordic conference on the student-centred approach and the quality of degree education. Helsinki 14.06.2016
  • Tømte, Cathrine E., Fossland, Trine (2016) The teachers’ role in the changing landscape of technology rich environment. CHER conference at Cambridge, 2016.
  • Esterhazy, Rachel (2016) The role of social interaction for developing feedback literacy in higher education students.  EARLI & EERA, Amsterdam, 13.jul-15.jul 2016
  • Esterhazy, Rachel (2016) The role of social interaction for developing feedback literacy in higher education students – An observation study. JURE conference 2016; 2016-07-04 –  2016-07-08