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Bård Ketil Engen

Bård Ketil Engen

Job title
  • Professor
Visiting address
  • Pilestredet 52, 0167 Oslo
  • Office number: B519
Phone
  • Office: +47 672 37 115
E-mail
  • bard-ketil.engen@oslomet.no
Affiliation

About

Bård Ketil Engen is a sociologist (M.Phil and Dr. Polit from the University of Oslo). His research interests include the framework for and use of digital technologies in teaching and learning in primary schools and teacher education and many of the research project he has engaged over the last 25 years have explored these aspects. He has participated in various research and development projects related to digital literacy, both funded internally and externally. He has published books and numerous book chapters, reports as well as conference papers and articles within the field of technology enhanced learning. His teaching and supervision tasks are related to aspects around digital literacy at Bachelor, Master’s and PhD level, CPD, as well as school placement. His main research interests include several areas of technology enhanced learning, such as: Cyber ethics, digital citizenship, education policy, curriculum, digital literacy, and technology adaption.

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Publications and research

Scientific publications

Storm-Mathisen, Ardis ; Giæver, Tonje Hilde ; Helle-Valle, Jo ; Engen, Bård Ketil ; Karstensen, Steinar (2026). Engagement with AI in teacher education—discourses, processes of domestication and dynamics of transformation. Frontiers in Education. Vol. 10.
https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2025.1694082

Engen, Bård Ketil ; McGarr, Oliver (2025). The Postdigital Divide. Postdigital Science and Education.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s42438-025-00577-6

Slattery, Darina M.; Cleary, Yvonne; Giæver, Tonje Hilde ; Engen, Bård Ketil (2025). Experimenting with a Multi-User Virtual Environment for Collaborative Online International Learning: A Case Study from Ireland and Norway. Nordic Journal of Comparative and International Education (NJCIE). Vol. 9.
https://doi.org/10.7577/njcie.5936

Bussesund, Erik Straume; McGarr, Oliver; Engen, Bård Ketil (2024). Teacher educators’ discursive enactment of professional digital competencies. Journal of Education Policy.
https://doi.org/10.1080/02680939.2024.2379821

McGarr, Oliver; Engen, Bård Ketil (2024). Justifications for the study of computers on the curriculum: Neo-vocational ideology veiled in progressive educational discourse. European Journal of Education.
https://doi.org/10.1111/ejed.12630

Bussesund, Erik Straume; Engen, Bård Ketil ; McGarr, Oliver (2023). Digital compliance or professional competence? Representations of teachers and digital futures in the Norwegian Qualification Framework. Learning, Media and Technology.
https://doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2023.2285831

Engen, Bård Ketil ; Giæver, Tonje Hilde ; Mifsud, Louise (2021). Digital dømmekraft. ISBN: 9788205554467. Gyldendal Akademisk.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3640345

McDonagh, Adrian; Camilleri, Patrick; Engen, Bård Ketil ; McGarr, Oliver (2021). Introducing the PEAT model to frame professional digital competence in teacher education. Nordic Journal of Comparative and International Education (NJCIE). Vol. 5.
https://doi.org/10.7577/njcie.4226

Camilleri, Patrick; Engen, Bård Ketil ; Hatlevik, Ove Edvard ; Rubio, Juan Carlos Colomer; Gassó, Héctor Hernández (2021). Student teachers and their attitudes towards ICT: Lessons learned from three different countries. Nordic Journal of Comparative and International Education (NJCIE). Vol. 5.
https://doi.org/10.7577/njcie.4207

McGarr, Oliver.; Engen, Bård Ketil (2021). By-passing teachers in the marketing of digital technologies: the synergy of educational technology discourse and new public management practices. Learning, Media and Technology.
https://doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2021.2010092



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Research reports

Giæver, Tonje Hilde ; Mifsud, Louise ; Engen, Bård Ketil ; Gudmundsdottir, Greta Björk; Hatlevik, Ove Edvard ; Camilleri, Patrick; Colomer, Juan Carlos; Hernandes, Hector; Insa, José Ramón; McDonagh, Adrian.; McGarr, Oliver.; Milton, Josephine; Rohatgi, Anubha (2020). DiCTE Questionnaire Report - Output 2. 20 p. OsloMet - storbyuniversitetet.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4009332

Fennefoss, Arvid; Engen, Bård Ketil (2010). Organisasjonssosiologiske betraktninger over organisatoriske betingelser for IKT-støttede undervisningsformer – et lærerperspektiv. ISBN: 9788299740746. 11 p. Unipub forlag.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3900920

Engen, Bård Ketil ; Giæver, Tonje Hilde ; Øgrim, Leikny (2009). Bruke, forstå, undervise. BALLASTBruk Av ikt fra Lærerutdanning til Læring og Arbeidspraksis i Skole over Tid. ISBN: 9788257946913. 149 p. Høgskolen i Oslo og Akershus.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4695106

Engen, Bård Ketil (2005). Tillit og kommunikasjon i digitale læringsomgivelser; en undersøkelse av IKT-mediert medisinerutdanning ved Universitetet i Oslo. 271 p. Universitetet i Oslo.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4491336

Engen, Bård Ketil (1997). Strukturendring av Internett. ISBN: 9788213011730. 84 p. TMV.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4112397

Engen, Bård Ketil (1996). Strukturendring av Internett. Internetts historie og utvikling sett i lys av Jürgen Habermas' offentlighetsteori. 175 p. Universitetet i Oslo.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4524319



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Dissemination

Engen, Bård Ketil ; Giæver, Tonje Hilde ; Hatlevik, Ove Edvard ; Knudsmoen, Hege ; Mifsud, Louise ; Swensen, Håkon ; Aabel, Mona Liland (2026). Revisiting Digital Inclusion or looking beyond digital divide?. Courage and Agency in Education for the Present. The Nordic Educational Research Association (NERA) .
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5481606

Giæver, Tonje Hilde ; Engen, Bård Ketil (2026). Designing a European Digital Competence Learning Module for Teachers; From Content Selection to Framework Development. TEFF Festival. University Löven.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5371125

Engen, Bård Ketil ; Giæver, Tonje Hilde ; Mifsud, Louise (2025). Empowering Educators: Digital Competence in Norwegian Schools and Teacher Education. Empowering Educators: Digital Competence in Norwegian Schools and Teacher Education. Uniwersytet Jagiellonski.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5323404

Engen, Bård Ketil ; Giæver, Tonje Hilde ; Mifsud, Louise (2024). Digital Citizenship in Norwegian Schools and Teacher Education. Gjesteforelesning. George Mason University.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3803933

Engen, Bård Ketil (2024). Does artificial intelligence have politics?. Kunstig intelligens; Trussel eller tjener. Forum for kritisk tenkning.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4980658

Engen, Bård Ketil ; Giæver, Tonje Hilde ; Mifsud, Louise (2024). Cyber ethics and AI in relation to conducting research in the educational sphere. Cyber ethics and AI in relation to conducting research in the educational sphere . University of Malta.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4873221

Engen, Bård Ketil ; Giæver, Tonje Hilde ; Mifsud, Louise (2024). Digital Citizenship, Cyberethics and Artifical Intelligence in Norwegian schools. Digital Citizenship, Cyberethics and Artifical Intelligence in Norwegian schools. St Aloysius.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4333024

Engen, Bård Ketil ; Helle-Valle, Jo ; Giæver, Tonje Hilde ; Karstensen, Steinar ; Steier, Rolf Erik Jorgenson ; Storm-Mathisen, Ardis (2023). Planlagt og gjennomført fakultetsseminar om digitalisering på fakultet for lærerutdanning on internasjonale studier (DIGILUI). Oversikt og forskning på digitalisering ved fakultet. Forskningsgruppene: Digitale Læringsarenaer, Bærekraft og Teknologi i Arbeid og Læring, Utvikling,Makt og ulikhet og Små barn, store byer: b.h.kvaliteter, ulikheter, kommunikative kompleksiteter..
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3904772

Engen, Bård Ketil ; McGarr, Oliver. (2023). Justifications for Computer Science/Coding on the Curriculum: Neo-Vocational Ideology Veiled in Progressive Educational Terminology?. ECER 2023. European Educational Research Association.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4038729

Engen, Bård Ketil ; Giæver, Tonje Hilde ; Slattery, Darina; Cleary, Yvonne (2023). Student Collaboration in a Virtual World: By-passing the Intimacy of Video-Based Interactions. ECER 2023. European Educational Research Association.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3922002



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