Department of Media, Design, Education and Cognition, University of Southern Denmark.
Nina Bonderup Dohn is Professor of Learning & ICT at the Department of Media, Design, Education and Cognition, Head of Centre for Learning Computational Thinking, and Chair of Danish Institute of Advanced Study, University of Southern Denmark. She holds a PhD in Learning Theory and a Higher Doctorate Degree in Applied Philosophy. She is Editor-in-Chief of Frontline Learning Research, a member of the Steering Committee of the International Networked Learning Conference and Senior Coordinator in EARLI SIG 25 on Educational Theory.
Her main research areas integrate epistemology, learning sciences, web communication, and technology-mediated learning, focusing on the role of tacit knowledge. She currently holds a research grant from Independent Research Fund Denmark for the project Designing for situated computational thinking with computational things. This is the project that has brought her to EDRL as a Visiting Scholar with Professor Dor Abrahamson, as she is exploring the role of embodied cognition for learning situated computational thinking.
Select publications:
Dohn, N. B., Kafai, Y., Mørch, A. & Ragni, M. (2022). Survey: Artificial Intelligence, Computational Thinking and Learning. KI – Künstliche Intelligenz – German Journal of Artificial Intelligence 36(1), 5-16.
Dohn, N. B., Hansen, S. B. & Hansen, J. J. (Eds.) (2020). Designing for situated knowledge transformation. Abingdon: Routledge.
Dohn, N. B. (2016). Explaining the significance of participationist approaches for understanding students’ knowledge acquisition. Educational Psychologist, 51(2), 188-209