Ole C. Brudvik
 
 
 
Position
Research Associate
 
Telephone
(65) 6 790 3203
 
Fax
(65) 6 896 8038
 
Email address
 
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Biographical Sketch
 

 
 
Ole C. Brudvik is a Research Associate at the Learning Sciences Lab and a part-time PhD student at the Centre for Research in Pedagogy and Practice at the National Institute of Education, Singapore. He is currently involved in a new literacies project that focuses on developing students’ critical thinking skills and critical dispositions through engagement in causal argumentation. Before he joined LSL, he was involved in a multiliteracy project at the Centre for Research in Pedagogy and Practice.
 
 
Education
 
 
Cand Mag Computer Science (Sor-Trondelag University, Norway)
 
 
 

Master in Business Administration International Business (Sydney Graduate School of Management, University of Western Sydney, Australia)
 

 
 
 
Selected Publications
 
 
 
 
- Brudvik, Ole C, Lim, C. and Hogan, D. (2006). Multimodal Literacy: Semiotic Design of Meaning and Synaesthesia. 3rd International Conference on Educational Technology, Singapore.
 
 
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Phillip A. Towndrow, Ole C. Brudvik & Uma Natarajan (in press). Crafting a total learning environment: Case studies of multimodality and task design in two Singapore science classrooms. In Ng, C.-H., & Renshaw, P. (Eds.). Reforming learning: Issues, Concepts and Practices in the Asia-Pacific Region: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
 
 
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Hedberg, J., Brudvik, O. C., Tiu, A. and Towndrown, P. (2006). Lower High-school Students' Approaches to Finding, Evaluating and Using Web Resources in History and Science Tasks: Technical report on the first-year study. Research Report RRS 06-004. Centre for Research in Pedagogy and Practice. National Institute of Education. Singapore.
 
 
- Brudvik, Ole C. and Hedberg, J. G. (2005). Visual representations for Student’s learning processes in Internet Tasks. ED-Media the World Conference in Educational Multimedia, Montreal.
 
 
   
 
Research Interest
 
 

Sociocultural theories of learning, Multimodal literacy, Web literacy, Digital multimodal media production in education, Disruptive technologies
 
Projects
 

Collaborator of Project LSL 10/05 CYS: Developing students’ critical thinking skills and critical dispositions through engagement in causal argumentation