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The Faculty of Information Technology, Mathematics and Electrical Engineering (http://www.ntnu.edu/ime) at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) has a vacancy for one PhD research fellow position in Game-based Learning at the Department of Computer and Information Science (http://www.ntnu.edu/idi).

The appointment is for a term of 3 years without duties. This is a researcher training position aimed at providing promising researcher recruits the opportunity of academic development in the form of a doctoral degree.

Information about the department

Currently there are 24 professors and 14 associate professors at the department. In addition there are 16 adjunct associate professors, 15 postdoctoral researchers, approx. 70 active PhD students, and 18 technical/administrative staff. Five of the tenured scientific positions are held by women, and eight are from other countries than Norway. Research activities are organized into groups and strategic European and National projects as documented here http://www.ntnu.edu/idi/research.

Work description

The candidate will be a member of the EduApp4Syria project team (http://norad.no/eduapp4syria) within the department's Information Systems and Software Engineering research group. The aim of the EduApp4Syria project is to develop engaging smartphone applications that can help the 2.8 million Syrian children who are currently out of school learn to read and contribute to their psychosocial wellbeing. The engaging smartphone applications will build on the principles of game-based learning and will be developed by contestants in an innovation competition which has been launched by the Norwegian government. The project is multi-disciplinary, drawing on expertise from game-development, user-centered design, human computer interaction, Arabic language, literacy, pedagogy, and psychology. The PhD candidate will work on the testing, evaluation and analysis of the effect of the resulting learning games on Syrian out-of-school children, analyze the opportunity for using game-based learning more broadly as part of aid funded interventions, and identify and further develop methods to spread, maintain, and ensure uptake of quality technology and content.

Qualifications

To be considered for the PhD fellowship the student must have a completed Master's Degree in computer science/software engineering or equivalent, where the weighted average grade of the two years of the Master program is of B or higher in accordance with NTNU's grading system.

Solid knowledge of game-based learning as well as practical experience with app development are required. In addition, experience with user-centered design, innovation processes, and empirical studies is preferable.

The candidate must submit a short essay (max. 1000 words) together with the application. The essay shall describe at least one relevant project where the applicant had a major role (e.g. project course, thesis work, start-up, hobby project), and show how it relates to the EduApp4Syria project. All info about the project can be downloaded from the Norad homepage (norad.no/eduapp4syra).

The main working languages are Norwegian and English; therefore the cand

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Arbeidsgiver Navn: NTNU - Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelig

Arbeidsgiver adresse: Sem Sælands vei 7-9 7491 TRONDHEIM

Job kort beskrivelse: University and higher education teachers

Land: Norge

Region: Sør-Trøndelag

Kilde til jobbtilbud: NAV, Offentlige arbeidsformidlinger, Norge

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