Symposia



The 4th MIND mini-symposium
Beyond the binary of progressive vs. formal:
interactional research on learning and teaching on the way to hybrid intelligence

Mälardalen University, 20 November 2025
Västerås (U3-104)

9:15 – Opening

Keynote:

9:30 – Teppo Jakonen, University of Turku
Title: The interplay of progressive and formal education in scripted VR-based medical simulation training

Lightning talks:

10:00– Robin Samuelsson, Mälardalen University
Title: Learning in-between the progressive and formal: Going beyond dichotomies through children’s interaction

10:10– Olcay Sert, Mälardalen University
Title: “A Netflix documentary more than a paper”: Negative assessments during AI-in-use

10:20 – Discussion 1: The role of technologies in (de)fueling innovation

10:50 – Break

Lightning talks:

11:05 – Nigel Musk and Silvia Kunitz, Linköping University
Title: Teacher-initiated retrospective orientations in EFL classes

11:15 – Silvia Kunitz, Ida Appelgren, Jessica Berggen, Johanna Duré, Karina Pålsson Gröndahl, Linköping University

Title: Solving a problem-based task at lower proficiency levels: a focus on students’ (dis)engagement

11:25 – Discussion 2: Do we even need technology for progressive/formal education?

12:00 – Lunch

13:15 – Research Speed Dating

14:15 – Fika Break

15:00 – Towards a network of research groups? Interaction meets Education in   

             Research and Practice

The 3rd MIND mini-symposium
The Interactional Footprints of Learning and Teaching
with(out) New Technologies
Mälardalen University, Västerås (U3-104)

Programme

9:00 Introduction

9:15 Helena Tegler, Mälardalen University

‘I don’t know, she might actually ask questions’: Investigating sources that effect teachers’ and classroom assistants’ self-efficacy.

9:35 Merve Bozbıyık, Mälardalen University

Exploring Student Participation in Higher Education through a Video Annotation Tool

9:55 Silvia Kunitz, Linköping University

HRI in educational settings: Solving a problem with a robot or despite a robot?

10:15 Maria Larsson, Mälardalen University

Contributions of Different Types of Talk in Problem-Solving Groups to Students’ Mathematical Thinking in Combinatorics

10:35 Fika Break

10:55 Robin Samuelsson, Helena Tegler, Olcay Sert, Mälardalen University

Educational technology or instructional distraction? Micro-analysis of children’s interaction during coding with a storyboard

11:15 Marwa Amri, Mälardalen University

Negotiating a Thinking Space in a Project-Based Language Classroom

11:35 Klara Skogmyr Marian, Stockholm University 

L2 interaction and learning through drama: Preliminary observations

11:55 Amanda Hoskins, Linköping University

Pedagogical materials-in-action: Collaborative imagining in EFL students’ task-based interaction

12:15 Lunch
13:30 -16:30   1: Session on research grants (Nigel Musk)
2: Session on collaboration between Swedish universities

The 2nd MIND mini-symposium

At the crossroads of collaboration, interaction and development:
A MIND map for research on teaching and learning

14 December 2023, Västerås

9:00 Introduction

9:15 David Ryška, Masaryk University

Transitioning between task prompts during EFL oral proficiency exams

9:35 Merve Bozbiyik, Mälardalen University

Displays of Co-Constructed Content Knowledge using Translanguaging in Breakout and Main Sessions of online EMI classrooms

9:55 Silvia Kunitz, Linköping University

Experiences with materials design in education research: from L2 oral task design to the design of HRI experiments in educational robotics

10:15 Teppo Jakonen, University of Turku

Situation awareness in telepresence robot -mediated interaction

10:35 Fika Break

10:55 Olcay Sert, Mälardalen University

AI-Assisted reflective practice in teacher education: preliminary observations from a pilot study

11:15 Helena Tegler and Nina Klang, Mälardalen University

Teacher scaffolding in aided communication in a special school for students with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities

11:35 Klara Skogmyr Marian, Stockholm University 

Drama-based L2 teaching from an interactional and multimodal perspective

12:00 Lunch

13:15 – 14:15        Collaborative MIND-mapping / (Re)imagining MIND

14:30 – 15:15        Research Speed Dating  – Pairing and teaming for future

         research

15:15 – 16:00        Imagining and visualising future research proposals

Link to the symposium page: https://mindresearchgroup.org/2023/12/17/the-2nd-mind-symposium/



1. At the crossroads of artefacts, technologies, and pedagogies: Interactional pathways for learning and teaching
Date: 15 June 2022
Venue: Mälardalen University, Västerås
Link: https://mindresearchgroup.org/2022/05/31/at-the-crossroads-of-artefacts-technologies-and-pedagogies-interactional-pathways-for-learning-and-teaching/