Gabrielle Hansen-Nyg

Gabrielle has a master degree in social psychology (2008) from The Norwegian University of Sciences and Technology (NTNU), the subject of which was Student Response Systems (SRS). The main focus of the master thesis was learning methods, especially how to use such a system in a training setting and students’ experiences and learning outcomes. She was a part of a research team at NTNU who implemented one of the first student response systems in Scandinavia. She has been a research assistant at Sør-Trøndelag University College since August 2009, and has been participating in 5 ongoing European-funded projects. She has during the last 9 months given several presentations about student response systems for modern mobile devices at many international conferences, and published 6 articles on mobile learning. She was in charge of coordinating the use of the system at a large national conference. In addition she has been responsible for several training courses in Norway, Sweden, Slovenia, Slovakia and England, where she has been training teachers on how to use modern mobile devices in different training settings and environments. She has participated in the planning and testing of SRS in classrooms, in addition to evaluation and methods development. She has performed several surveys, mainly focus group interviews and questionnaires, and evaluated the testing of the SRS that has been done so far at Sør-Trøndelag University College. She has also contributed to the technical development, but from a learning point of view. The feedback she has received from the students, combined with her background from psychology, has had a big impact on the technical development of the system.