Ann-Sofie Hellberg
Position: Senior Lecturer School/office: Örebro University School of BusinessEmail: YW5uLXNvZmllLmhlbGxiZXJnO29ydS5zZQ==
Phone: +46 19 301498
Room: N4055
About Ann-Sofie Hellberg
I am an assistant professor in informatics, employed at the Örebro University School of Business since 2008, with responsibility for the programme of Systems Analysis since 2023. I am passionate about knowledge development, challenging ways of thinking, turning things around to find new angles and new ways of doing things. I am driven by problem-solving, innovation, creative thinking, and making a contribution.
This permeates both my teaching and my research, which by the way are strongly connected as I practice teaching as research. The teaching becomes a research project, in which the goal is to improve the teaching, continuously and regularly, to follow up the results of course development systematically. Planning and development take place before course rounds, the course round provides data for new course development as each opportunity is evaluated and followed up, and so it starts again. Publication in educational journals and conferences is a natural part of this work.
Problem-solving and creativity are important parts of my teaching. As manager for the programme of Systems Analysis, I am responsible for driving the educational issues and ensuring relevant content. Recently, sustainability issues have received a lot of focus as I train systems scientists, a professional group that will play a key role in the transition to a more sustainable society. Technology development is part of this, sustainability is complex and requires systems thinking - which is exactly what our education aims for. The systems analysis program is an education that offers knowledge about people, organizations and how to develop technology to support them.
The use of AI tools is also a hot topic and it is strongly connected to sustainability. The use of AI tools has been portrayed as a disaster for the climate. The energy needed to train and run AI models is enormous. At the same time, AI tools can contribute to increased development, innovation and be part of the transition. Thus, both sustainability and AI use are complex issues, which require innovative thinking, an ability to see different perspectives, to think critically.
Courses I currently teach include:
IK201G: Web Client Programming, Intermediate course
IK207G: System development project with Scrum and Extreme Programming, Intermediate course
IK208G: Interaction design, Intermediate course
IK209G: System development project, Intermediate course
Publications
Articles in journals
- Hellberg, A. & Moll, J. (2023). A point with pointsification? Clarifying and separating pointsification from gamification in education. Frontiers in Education, 8. [BibTeX]
- Hellberg, A. (2023). The story of the hatter and the agile methods course: Gamification and game thinking in education. Journal of Pedagogical Research, 7 (3), 19-42. [BibTeX]
- Hellberg, A. & Hedström, K. (2015). The story of the sixth myth of open data and open government. Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy, 9 (1). [BibTeX]
- Hellberg, A. & Grönlund, Å. (2013). Conflicts in implementing interoperability: re-operationalizing basic values. Government Information Quarterly, 30 (2), 154-162. [BibTeX]
Chapters in books
- Hellberg, A. & Moll, J. (2022). Virtual teams. In: Stefan Hrastinski, Designing Courses with Digital Technologies: Insights and Examples from Higher Education (pp. 81-86). . Routledge. [BibTeX]
- Hellberg, A. (2011). Införandet av sammanhållen journalföring i hälso- och sjukvården. In: Ann-Sofie Hellberg, Martin Karlsson, Hannu Larsson, Erik Lundberg, Monika Persson, Perspektiv på offentlig verksamhet i utveckling: tolv kapitel om demokrati, styrning och effektivitet (pp. 47-58). Örebro: Örebro universitet. [BibTeX]
Collections (editor)
- Hellberg, A. (ed.) , Karlsson, M. (ed.) , Larsson, H. (ed.) , Lundberg, E. (ed.) & Persson, M. (ed.) (2011). Perspektiv på offentlig verksamhet i utveckling: tolv kapitel om demokrati, styrning och effektivitet (1ed.). Örebro: Örebro universitet (FOVU:s rapportserie 1). [BibTeX]
Conference papers
- Hellberg, A. & Moll, J. (2022). An effective online learning for complex theoretical content: experience of Community of Inquiry. In: 2022 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE). Paper presented at Frontiers in Education, Uppsala, Sweden, October 8-11, 2022. IEEE. [BibTeX]
- Hellberg, A. (2016). A Storytelling Approach for Electronic Government Research. In: 2016 49th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). Paper presented at 49th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Koloa, Hawaii, January 5-8, 2016. (pp. 2657-2666). IEEE. [BibTeX]
- Hellberg, A. (2014). Policy, process, people and public data. In: Electronic Government. Paper presented at 13th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference, EGOV 2014, Dublin, Ireland, September 1-3, 2014. (pp. 265-276). [BibTeX]
- Hellberg, A. & Grönlund, Å. (2011). Health care integration in practice: an institutionalized dilemma. In: Kim Normann Andersen, Enrico Francesconi, Åke Grönlund, Tom M. van Engers, Electronic government and the information systems perspective. Paper presented at Second International Conference, EGOVIS 2011, Toulouse, France,August 29 – September 2. (pp. 1-14). Berlin: Springer Berlin/Heidelberg. [BibTeX]
Doctoral theses, comprehensive summaries
- Hellberg, A. (2015). Governments in control?: the implications of governance and policy entrepreneurship in electronic government. (Doctoral dissertation). (Comprehensive summary) Örebro: Örebro university. [BibTeX]
Reports
- Hellberg, A. , Islam, S. & Karlsson, F. (2018). Säkerhet vid molnlösningar. Karlstad: Myndigheten för samhällsskydd och beredskap. [BibTeX]