The purpose of this study is to investigate how secondary school art teachers wish to use Information Communication Technology (ICT) in their lessons, what their circumstances are, and finally, what is important for a successful integration of ICT in art teaching.This qualitative study is based on three semi-structured interviews with secondary schoolart teachers. The interviews are analysed in two ways. Firstly, with a theory-driven contentanalysis and secondly by using the TPACK (Technology, Pedagogical and ContentKnowledge) and SAMR (Substitution, Augmentation, Modification, Redefinition) models.The results of this study show that teachers’ attitudes towards digitalisation have a greateffect on how ICT is integrated into their teaching. It also shows that not all art teachers have access to the required equipment to meet their needs, or the technological knowledge necessary to properly integrate ICT into their teaching. Additionally, this study shows that the Swedish National Agency for Education’s intentions with digitalisation in art teaching are not consistently met by all art teachers. This study shows that while art teachers require both the equipment that meets their needsand the technological knowledge to use this equipment, the most important factor in asuccessful integration of ICT into art teaching is the teachers pedagogical and didactic skills.

According to previous studies, inertia towards new technology is broadly researched in established companies, specifically among senior employees. However, the existing literature leaves a research gap for inertia experienced among young employees, specifically in an organization that operates in the information technology industry. This study aims to investigate inertia among early stage employees towards new technology. The main purpose of this study is to answer the research question: How to overcome inertia of multinational early stage employees towards the new technology in their daily workflow in an international sales organization? To answer the research question, a qualitative research approach was chosen, and a single case study was conducted. The empirical data was gathered through semi-structured interviews. The scope of research is limited to the sales development representatives of Company A, who are based in EMEA. After the data collection, the analysis was carried out with a thematic coding approach. The findings showed that the managers are having tremendous responsibility when it comes to the adoption process of a new digital tool, and some of them are not showing interest towards the new technology. Hence, the lack of communication was concluded as the main cause of inertia among young employees. The authors created a framework for fighting against inertia (FAI). The use of FAI framework results in supporting the management team to overcome resistance towards new technology.

Svenska skolan har genomgått många förändringar, däribland inkluderingen av digitala hjälpmedel i undervisningen. Ökad användning av digitala verktyg ställer krav på lärarna, det vill säga att de måste öka sitt digitala kunnande i takt med utvecklingen. Hem- och konsumentkunskap (HKK) är inte bara ett praktiskt ämne, vilket kan göra det gynnsamt att implementera digitala hjälpmedel iundervisningen. Syftet med undersökningen var att redogöra för hur den digitala utvecklingen har påverkat den enskilde HKK läraren. En kvalitativ metod användes i form av sju intervjuer med yrkesverksamma lärare i ämnena HKK, matematik/NO, textilslöjd och engelska/SO under hösten 2021. Urvalet av lärare baseras på att det var brist på tillgängliga HKK-lärare och att de andra ämnena berör liknande kunskapskrav som HKK. Intervjuerna var semi-strukturerade och tog stöd av en intervjuguide. Data samlades in, bearbetades och analyserades utifrån en kvalitativ innehållsanalys. Resultatet visade att samtliga informanter var positiva till digitaliserad undervisning. Tid, planering och IT- kunskap var förutsättning för implementering i undervisningen. Digitalisering anses vara både tidssparande och tidsslukande. Tid för planering och inhämtande av kunskap omdigitala program är en förutsättning för digitalisering i undervisningen. Digital undervisning utövas i stor utsträckning. Det digitala hjälpmedlet kunde bli en distraktion för eleverna och de tappade lätt fokus. Differentierad undervisning med hjälp av digitala hjälpmedel kunde gynna vissa elever. / The Swedish school system has undergone many changes, including the inclusion of digital aids ineducation. Increased usage of digital tools places demands on teachers where they must increase their digital know-how in step with development. Home and consumer studies (HCS) is not just a practical subject, which can make it beneficial to implementation of digital aids in teaching. The objective of this examination was to account for how the digital development has affected the individual Home and consumer studies teacher. A qualitative method has been used in the form of seven interviews with professional teachers in the subject Home and consumer studies, Mathematics/Science and English/Social studies during the autumn of 2021. The selection of teachers is based on the lack of available HCS teachers and that the other subjects refer to similar points of the curriculum. The interviews have been supported by a semi-structured interview guide. Data has been collected, processed, and analyzed using a qualitative content analysis. The results showed that all participants were positive to digitalized teaching. Time, planning, and IT knowledge were prerequisites for implementation in teaching. Digitization is considered to be both time-saving and time-consuming. Time for planning and acquiring knowledge about digital programs is a prerequisite for digitization in teaching. Digital teaching is practiced to a large extent. The digital aid could become a distraction for the students, and they easily lost focus. Differentiated teaching using digital aids could benefit some students.

In today's use of digital services and tools in universities and other types of higher education it is easy for us to look past the consequences these can have for the students using them. The digitalization that is happening in our environment is also happening to the highest degree within education in universities. Many students in both Swedish and other countries universities struggle with different problems because of both generalstress and stress because of a fast digitalization of said universities. The purpose of this study is to get a better understanding of the different ways that digital technology has become a bigger part of university education. We also want to find out what different kinds of mental issues that can occur from the stress that follows said education and digitalization within it and how this can appear and be perceived and experienced differently. Furthermore, this thesis is meant to bring forward different kinds of ways the digitalization can be used, for example through different digital tools by universities and other surroundings to help students who struggle with this to better handle their education and their lives. In the study we gathered information and statistics from several different scientific articles and other national and international reports. By merging this information, we were able to build a picture of how the situation looks when it comes to stress and mental health connected to digitalization of education. From this picture we could then put together a result in the form of a list of conclusions about what is happening, why it is happening and what can be done to prevent it.

Sales is one of the oldest professions and is still a vital part of any business. It keeps evolving because of digitalization and from the impact of covid-19. The covid-19 outbreak has had tremendous influence on multiple levels in organizations and for business all over the world. Consequently, there is also an opportunity in a crisis. Furthermore, the firms have rapidly picked themselves up and continue pursuing for survival. Today, management has started restructuring their business models and including hybrid work models for their employees. In this study, the authors will investigate how this old profession is functioning in a modern and evolving business environment. Digitalization has accelerated at an alarming rate during the pandemic. It benefits and challenges many professions on a daily basis, including the B2B sales process.

Background – Leveraging external sources of innovation (ESI) is found to be vital for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) innovation work as they commonly suffer from a lack of resources to facilitate and execute this work. The interaction with the external environment does, in turn, enable access to knowledge and capabilities that SMEs currently not possess. Moreover, as collaborative software tools (CSTs) have proven to play a critical role in today’s innovation processes and have transformed the way of interacting with the external environment, it becomes obvious that research in this field must account for the usage of these tools. CSTs have a significant impact on communication, cooperation, and coordination and are, therefore, widely used to facilitate collaborations in intra-organizational groups. Thus, these tools can be beneficial for SMEs as it provides them with greater access and availability to the external environment. Purpose – This research aims to understand how SMEs can leverage external sources of innovation with the application of collaborative software tools and develop fruitful insights that can be used to facilitate innovation work for SMEs that typically lack internal resources.  Method – This study approaches the underlying philosophy of a relativist ontology, a social constructionist epistemology, and iterative grounded theory. For the methodology, empirical data was collected through 31 semi-structured interviews with participants from SMEs and their ESI in the region of Jönköping County following a purposive sampling method. The empirical data was further analyzed by conducting a grounded theory strategy for process analysis. Findings – We develop two processes illustrating how SMEs can leverage ESI with the application of CSTs. It was found that the application of CSTs in these processes enables SMEs to explore, acquire, and utilize information and knowledge from ESI in ways that previously have not been possible. By providing new ways of communicating and cooperating, CSTs facilitate the activity of sourcing knowledge and resources from ESI. Consequently, the SMEs are provided with new knowledge and resources that, in turn, improve and enhance the development of innovations. Thereby we contribute to an understanding of how SMEs can leverage ESI in the 21st century.

Stigande havsnivåer är något som idag påverkar kustområden världen över, vilket har lett till att fokus behövt riktas mot att klimatanpassa den fysiska planeringen. Syftet med uppsatsarbetet är att genom en fallstudie undersöka kommunerna Karlskrona och Ystad arbete med klimatanpassning för havsnivåhöjningar. Vidare är syftet att studera vilken roll digitala planeringsverktyg har. Arbetet ska besvara två frågeställningar där den första handlar om hur respektive kommun arbetar med klimatanpassning för stigande havsnivåer och den andra behandlar digitala planeringsverktygs roll i det arbetet.  Studien bygger på kvalitativa metoder och insamlingen av empiri genomfördes med kvalitativa intervjuer samt konventionella innehållsanalyser. Det teoretiska ramverket består av begreppen: “resiliens”, “anpassningskapacitet”, “digitalisering inom fysisk planering” och “resurskoordinering”. Resultatet visar främst att Karlskrona kommun arbetar med långsiktiga lösningar och samverkan samt att Ystad kommun arbetar proaktivt och utifrån strategier och handlingsplaner. Det framkom även att digitala planeringsverktyg har en mer kompletterande roll i kommunernas arbete. / Sea level rise affects coastal areas around the world, which has made urban planning move towards climate adaptation. The purpose of this paper is to understand how the municipalities of Karlskrona and Ystad work with climate adaptation for sea level rise and what part digital planning tools have. The paper has two main issues which aims to understand how climate adaptation for rising seas is implemented in the municipalities and the role of digital planning tools.  The study is based on qualitative methods and the data was collected with qualitative interviews and conventional content analysis. The theoretical framework includes: “resilience”, “adaptation capacity”, “digitalization in urban planning” and “resource coordination”. The results shows that the municipality of Karlskrona works with long term solutions and cooperation, and that the municipality of Ystad works proactively with strategies. Lastly it became clear that digital planning tools have a complementary part in the municipalities work.

The purpose of this work is to investigate how the school’s digitization has affected history teaching for students with neuropsychiatric disabilities. In order to fulfill the purpose, the following question has been formulated: “What consequences does the school’s digitization generate for students with neuropsychiatric disabilities within the frame of history teaching?” The method for this work is based on systematic literature research through three databases, SwePub, Google Scholar and ERIC. These three databases were used to produce articles to further strengthen our question. The searches were done in both Swedish and English to get the largest possible selection of items. The results show that the school’s digitization has a positive impact on students with various neuropsychiatric disabilities but also all students. However, there are a limited number of studies that show the positive effects on NPF students. But based on the research found, it can be stated that digital tools play a crucial role in the child developing knowledge in order to achieve the goals in their education.

The purpose of this study is to find out how the six participating primary teachers teach vocabulary in the EFL-classroom, in particular through children’s literature and digital tools. Furthermore, this study aims to discuss how the participating teachers motivate their pupils to acquire vocabulary through various strategies and methods. Two research questions, first, how primary teachers teach vocabulary in the EFL classroom, second, what functions children’s literature and digital tools play when it is used by the teachers to enhance pupils’ vocabulary, are applied. This is a qualitative study where semi structured interviews have been conducted. The findings are coded through a thematic analysis to find patterns in the result. The results show that participating teachers differ in their reasoning when children’s literature can be used, where some of the teachers thinkthat it is possible to start using them in first grade, while others think that the pupils first need a basic vocabulary. Moreover, large screens are mostly used to display other teaching materials, while individual screens, such as iPads and computers, are used to differentiate the teaching. Additionally, the participating teachers mainly use children’s literature and digital tools to motivate the pupils in their vocabulary proficiency development.

Denna kunskapsöversikt kommer att redovisa hur forskningen om digitala verktyg ser ut i engelskundervisning. Som grund till kunskapsöversikten presenteras tio forskningsstudier som är relevanta till ämnet. Syftet med denna kunskapsöversikt är att kartlägga, analysera och presentera forskning som kännetecknar digitala verktyg inom engelskundervisningen. Frågorna som ligger till grund för den här kunskapsöversikten är: Vad kännetecknar forskningen om digitala verktyg inom engelskundervisningen? Hur framställs lärares uppfattning av användandet av digitala verktyg i engelskundervisningen? Hur framställs fördelar och nackdelar i forskningen med användandet av digitala verktyg i engelskundervisningen?  Kunskapsöversiktens artiklar är inhämtad från databassökningar i Proquest, ERIC och Primo. Sökbegreppen som tillämpades var enbart på engelska. De olika sökbegreppen samt kriterierna applicerades för att smalna av urvalet mot relevanta artiklar.  Urvalet samlades in utifrån sökningarna i ovan nämnda databaser. Därefter tillämpades sökorden: ICT, language learning, english learning, digital tools, primary school och Sweden. Sökningarna genomfördes på engelska för att öka antalet artiklar samt deras relevans mot syftet. Kriterier som “peer reviewed” och “fulltext tillgänglig” applicerades. Avgränsningar av de valda artiklarna gjordes med publiceringsåren 2010-2021 samt att de skulle vara gratis att läsa.  Resultatet från kartläggningen visar att lärares attityder mot digitala verktyg i engelskundervisning är avgörande ifall de kommer använda dem samt att många negativa åsikter finns kring användandet. Detta eftersom flertalet lärare upplevde att de digitala verktygen kunde orsaka distraktioner i undervisningen om inte en tydlig struktur fanns i planeringsstadiet. De digitala verktygen visade sig även bidra till att öka elevernas språkinlärning samt deras vilja att lära sig engelska. Forskarna är överens om att mer forskning kring digitala verktyg i undervisningen bör genomföras för att undervisningen ska bli optimal. Studierna har en stor geografisk spridning och visar på att liknande forskning har bedrivits i flera delar av världen.