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Acknowledgements
I would like to thank all the people who in different ways have contributed to this thesis.
My colleagues at IDI have been an invaluable resource for discussing and exchanging
ideas and have provided good company throughout my PhD years. Sobah Abbas
Petersen and Kirsti Berntsen have been great office mates and friends. Glenn
Munkvold, being a couple of years ahead of me on the PhD schedule, provided valuable
support and advice on many aspects of PhD work. Torstein Hjelle is always helpful and
faithfully joins in on the morning visit to the coffee shop. Thomas Østerlie, Sven
Ziemer, Tor Stålhane, Torgeir Dingsøyr, Eric Monteiro, Dag Svanæs, Ilaria Canova
Calori, Reidar Conradi, Gro Alice Hamre, Øyvind Hauge, Hallvard Trætteberg,
Gasparas Jarulaitis, Letizia Jaccheri, Ole Andreas Alsos, Guttorm Sindre, Gry Seland,
Inger Dybdahl Sørby and Chiara Rossitto have all been generous in taking the time to
discuss with me when I have been in need of opinions and insights. More names could
have been added to this list, and I colloquially thank the people who make my daily
work at IDI interesting and enjoyable.
Thanks to Bendik Bygstad and Tor-Morten Grønli, my former colleagues at NITH, for
good collaboration on research papers.
Glenys Hamilton did efficient editing work, and I recommend her as an editor.
Ove Haugaløkken, my co-supervisor, and Leif Martin Hokstad, in practice my second
co-supervisor, have provided constructive and useful input from the side of educational
theory and computer-supported collaborative learning throughout the PhD period.
Special thanks go to my main supervisor Monica Divitini. She is supportive and
generous and has been doing a great job as co-author of several of my research papers.
Applying her strong analytic skills to my ideas and writings she has frequently provided
the essential keys to bringing the PhD work another step forward.
Thanks to my parents Ellen and Jan Rognebakke and to my friends Idunn Løvseth
Kavlie and Ragnhild Torsvik Bamrud for listening when I have been in need of talking
about the challenges of life as a PhD student.
Finally I thank my beloved children Øystein, Håvard and Idunn for putting up with a
mother who has often been stressed, impatient and absorbed in her PhD work. I thank
my dear husband John for love and support. I am very fortunate to be married to a man
who not only knows the requirements of academic work but who is also highly
respectful of our differences in terms of coping with work and life.
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