Anne Algers

Biography

Anne Algers has her background in natural sciences (farm animalproduction, animal welfare and food science) but her recent workand publications are within educational sciences. She has aninterdisciplinary approach and has been an academic scholar atSwedish University of Agricultural Sciences for more than 20 years.Her PhD thesis was in Educational Sciences within the area of digitaltechnology and learning. Her thesis was entitled “Open learning inlife sciences - Studies on work-based learning in food science and open educational resources in animal welfare”. She holds a position as a senior lecturer in higher education pedagogy at University of Gothenburg and continues doing research, teaching and outreach about teaching methodologies in life sciences with a focus on sharing the responsibility of knowledge creation with students, industry and the society. Some of the teaching practices she has been particularly interested in are open educational resources, open educational practices, digital role-play games and work-based learning. She is also interested in citizen science and has done a systematic literature review on digital competence and digital literacy; thus applied IT and learning is a consistent theme.

Research Interest

Agricultural Sciences Animal and Dairy Science Veterinary Science Social Sciences Educational Sciences Didactics Learning Pedagogical Work