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Dr. Antonia Scholkmann
Profile
I am a higher education scholar with a focus on the interplay of education and digital technologies. I am especially interested in artificial intelligence's growing role in the educational sphere. The question I ask is how generative AI changes our understandings of learning, education and society. I am also interested in the hopes and dreams that drive the implementation of artificial intelligence in universities and other educational institutions.
During my academic career, I have worked on other topics as well. Amongst those I have focussed on technology-entangled active and problem-based learning in higher and professional education, organizational change and leadership in educational contexts and on the digital transformation of the higher education in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. Recent points of my interest have been higher education policy and politics, the contested professionalization of academic development and the role and relevance of the social sciences and humanities (SSH).
With a Ph.D. at the crossroads of organizational and pedagogical psychology, and with substantial experiences as both, an academic and as an academic developer and manager, my research ethics are grounded in analytical and empirical scrutiny combined with an interest for working constructively and collaboratively across disciplinary and societal boundaries.
Theoretical groundings
My research integrates practice theory, cultural historical activity theory, Scandinavian New Institutionalism, and post-structural and neo-material epistemologies in order to understand higher and professional education as arenas and parts of broader societal phenomena.
Methodological positioning
Methodologically, I am rooted in the empirical and mixed methods paradigm with expanding interests in discursive and socio-material practices.
Research-teaching nexus
I am passionate about teaching and learning, and my engagement has been honored with the Teacher of the Year-prize from the Study Board Learning, IT and Organization at the Department of Culture and Learning, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Aalborg University in 2023.
Current Projects
2SOSU-AI – Generative AI in vocational education and training.
Increasing participation opportunities for bilingual women in social and healthcare education
In this project, supported by the VELUX Foundation under their HUMpraksis programme, my collaborators and I are researching how generative AI can become instrumental for female migrant pupils in Danish heath and social care educations. Read more on the project here.
PERSPECT – Exploring generative AI in PBL Problem Based Learning.
New insights from students’ perspectives
How are students experiencing the “influx” of generative AI into their learning processes? And how can Problem-based Learning help them to develop their own practices of using generative AI responsibly and constructively? Some good colleagues and I have researched this in a pilot project. Read more on our work with this topic here.