Social media have increased the need for a critical approach to the information at hand. Since scientific literacy is important when fake is to be separated from fact, it is our responsibility as researchers to assist in fostering this ability among the citizens. Due to the schism between the scientific world and the lifeworld of the citizens, this is a daunting task. Through the concept of responsible research and innovation, and in particular the governance-pillar, an approach that benefits both the public at large and science can be established.

The goal is to discuss the role of retouching apps in the visual culture created on social media with the smart phone as a platform. First, we discuss the reconfiguration of the photo, and the connection to the smart phone's place as a camera and mediator of photos. Then the article is rooted in popular journalism's (re)production of role models in ever-new arenas where the selfie dominates. And thirdly, the retouching opportunities of three beauty apps, what they add to the photos and their use are analysed.

This article questions the digital photograph’s role as a document. Since photographs today can be both adjusted and created without visible trace, they can no longer as such claim documentary value. I will support this statement by analysing a couple of digitally manipulated images, by briefly presenting a few recent image-adjustment and creation techniques, by assessing the media’s response to this development, and by arguing for a possible solution.

This paper explores the experiences of Chinese tourists who visit the Geiranger fjord by using 196 blog posts of tourist’s description of their experience. Our analysis shows that 92 percent of the blog posts portray positive experiences. Using grounded theory, we identify five constructs representing core motivational ideas. The most interesting construct we identify is the Chinese tourists’ interest and idealization of the Norwegian and Scandinavian way of living and culture.

This article shows tendencies and changes in the relation between sports and the media in Norway between 1960 and 2020. Media has been a changemaker in sports, but the sports movement itself has influenced sports’ growth and development through continuous projects of improvement known as “sportification”. The elite sports’ logic has not changed and it is one of the main reasons why elite sports are attractive entertainment on different media platforms.

In recent years, we have seen a growing interest in the economic and organizational implications of digitization. Based on cluster theory and theory of knowledge, we identify a lack of research on how digitization will affect knowledge-level development in clusters. Empirical evidence from the Maritime cluster in Møre og Romsdal indicates that despite of increased globalization and digitalization, tacit and contextual knowledge still seem to play an important role.

This article focuses on shipyard workers’ opinion of whether digital tools, using AR technology, can be a positive contribution when building ships. The Shipbuilding industry have recently experienced extensive changes both in market orientation and business models. The findings in this study indicates that while these industry changes increased the need for digital tools, the changes also create important challenges. The study argues that discussions on digital tools need to include a production-oriented perspective.

This article analyses the relationship between the use of “The Balanced Scorecard” (BSC) and business performance. Three hypotheses are tested; H1: Users of BSC achieve better business performance than non-users; H2: Business units using BSC are larger than non-users; H3: The extent of use of BSC is positively associated with business performance. A survey was carried out in the county of Møre og Romsdal using a questionnaire that was completed by 71 businesses (21% of the organisations contacted), of which forty-two respondents were users. The findings support the three hypotheses. The paper addresses managerial implications along with its limitations, implications for further research and offers a conclusion.

In Norway, the public sector scheme for general practitioners in primary health care is increasingly under pressure. Concurrently, private general health actors are emerging to offer consultations and other GP services online via video. In this article we study the digital health company KRY, a start-up in Norway in 2017, and the reactions to its interventions from the dominant actors in the center of the primary health care field. KRY is studied as an institutional entrepreneur in its early phase in 2018, and the frictions between KRY and the established actors are studied with an institutional logics lens.

This study investigates how the new EU directive The Payment Services Directive (PSD2) may affect the competitive conditions in the banking market. The directive allows third-party operators (FinTechs, Facebook, Google or Apple) to become Account Information Service Providers (AISP) and Payment Initiation Service Providers (PISP). By interviewing four selected banks the study explore the impact of PSD2 and reveals a concern that the banks’ future operations will be reduced to infrastructure for payments.

In this article four teachers are interviewed in order to find out which literacy practices are established when they work with the app Book Creator in the classroom. I identify three practices: the well-known practice where the app is used as a substitute for established literacy practices, the optional literacy practice and the multimodal literacy practice. In the article the three practices are discussed in conjunction with the SAMR-model.

The aim of this study is to examine teachers’ flipped classroom management experiences. The study is based on focus groups interviews including 12 teachers from secondary and upper secondary schools. Our findings show that one group of teachers fully utilize the in-class time by shifting direct lecturing to student-centered learning activities. However, the other group continued a more traditional instructional approach.

In this qualitative study, three classes from three schools with different approaches to writing instruction in 1^st grade are examined. One class uses personal tablet, another class uses both personal tablet and handwriting instruction in the first year, while a third class uses handwriting instruction. The results indicate that teachers have different views of when to start initial handwriting instruction. Further, the results show different ways of writing instructions, both in terms of content in assignments, work methods and how to facilitate for adapted learning.

The use of tasks in school mathematics has been debated for several years, and in recent years digital exercise databases have become more relevant. Based on an existing framework, in this chapter we present an analytical tool adapted for assessment of tasks in digital exercise databases. The analytical tool is intended for use by teachers when they are familiarizing with the tasks in the databases. We use the databases “Kikora” and “Multi Smart Øving” when presenting and discussing the analytical tool.

Oral exams have long traditions in higher education in Norway, while the online oral exam must be considered new. An increasing number of online students has made it pertinent to look into possible advantages of this exam form, because it is not obvious how one should arrange oral exams for students who have their exam online. This study is based on four questionnaires distributed among 129 web students in Norwegian language. The average response rate is 60.46%. The main finding is that the students mainly are satisfied with conducting a web-based oral examination.

Our experience with digitization in higher education is about helping students to learn, giving them better follow-up and facilitating this learning in the best possible way. On our campus we have experience with visual presentations, simulations, flipped classroom, one-way streaming and streaming as two-way communication with video bridge with a teacher or without a teacher. This article presents both the teachers and the student’s point of view about these different technological solutions.

Many institutions have seen film recordings of lectures as a way to respond to the need for digitalization in higher education, and as a means of increasing flexibility for students. Based on previous studies and experiences from Molde University College, I argue in this essay that recording of lectures can lead to reduced attendance among students, and reduced student involvement, which can thus adversely affect situational learning.

The paper develops knowledge of benefits and barriers within flipped classroom within higher education through a literature study. This study finds more benefits than barriers by using flipped classroom, and by working with the barriers, you may actually strengthen the method. In addition, a great benefit will be that the students will use the entire Blooms taxonomy; from basic knowledge to the top level with reflection and analyzes which is mandatory in order to learn. The conclusion is that flipped classroom is a learning method that should be explored by scholars.

Blockchain technology has attracted a great deal of attention since its origins with Bitcoin in 2008. However, the uptake of this new technological paradigm in higher education has so far been slow. This paper presents the state of blockchain technology and cryptocurrency teaching in higher education in Norway. It also discusses the subject following experiences with a completed course on this topic at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (WNUAS) and reflects on the challenges of teaching a subject that is highly interdisciplinary in nature.