Per-Olof Hansson
Linköping University
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EJISDC: The Electronic Journal on Information Systems in Developing Countries | 2014
William Jobe; Per-Olof Hansson
The research goal of this project was to explore the use and effects of non‐formal education and incentives in the context of a developing country. The practical aim of this project was to create, implement, and evaluate a platform about human rights that was available to any Kenyan for free in order to increase knowledge and engagement. Therefore, a non‐formal massive open online course (MOOC) about human rights was designed and launched. The course was free and open to anyone in Kenya and offered both a digital badge and certificate from Stockholm University in Sweden upon completion. The course was called Haki Zangu (Kiswahili for “My Rights”), and it explored how using incentives such as a digital badge and certificate of completion affected learning outcomes. This course offered ubiquitous access based on principles of responsive web design and used audio recordings of the entire course content. The course is perpetual and still on‐going, but after six months there were 160 participants who had enrolled, and ten participants had completed the course and received certificates and digital badges. The participants showed extensive enthusiasm and engagement for human rights issues, and they expressed desires to learn more and further spread knowledge about human rights. The current findings suggest that the availability of digital badges and certificates increased interest for participation and positively affected learning outcomes. Moreover, the use of a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) format with incentives proved successful, combined with the contextualization and accessibility of the course content. Furthermore, the technical platform proved adequate for disseminating education for free in a developing country, and allowed for unencumbered access regardless of device. Lastly, a key challenge for future non‐formal learning efforts in developing countries is the cost of Internet access.
Journal of Mobile Technologies, Knowledge and Society | 2015
Per-Olof Hansson; William Jobe
This paper analyzes how a group of Kenyan elite runners used smartphones in their daily activities for one year. This study used a participatory action research approach to explore 30 young Kenyan ...
Jmir mhealth and uhealth | 2018
Sara Rönnby; Oscar Lundberg; Kristina Fagher; Jenny Jacobsson; Bo Tillander; Håkan Gauffin; Per-Olof Hansson; Örjan Dahlström; Toomas Timpka
Background International middle- and long-distance running competitions attract millions of spectators in association with city races, world championships, and Olympic Games. It is therefore a major concern that ill health and pain, as a result of sports overuse, lead to numerous hours of lost training and decreased performance in competitive runners. Despite its potential for sustenance of performance, approval of mHealth self-report monitoring (mHSM) in this group of athletes has not been investigated. Objective The objective of our study was to explore individual and situational factors associated with the acceptance of long-term mHSM in competitive runners. Methods The study used qualitative research methods with the Technology Acceptance Model as the theoretical foundation. The study population included 20 middle- and long-distance runners competing at national and international levels. Two mHSM apps asking for health and training data from track and marathon runners were created on a platform for web survey development (Briteback AB). Data collection for the technology acceptance analysis was performed via personal interviews before and after a 6-week monitoring period. Preuse interviews investigated experience and knowledge of mHealth monitoring and thoughts on benefits and possible side effects. The postuse interviews addressed usability and usefulness, attitudes toward nonfunctional issues, and intentions to adhere to long-term monitoring. In addition, the runners’ trustworthiness when providing mHSM data was discussed. The interview data were investigated using a deductive thematic analysis. Results The mHSM apps were considered technically easy to use. Although the runners read the instructions and entered data effortlessly, some still perceived mHSM as problematic. Concerns were raised about the selection of items for monitoring (eg, recording training load as running distance or time) and about interpretation of concepts (eg, whether subjective well-being should encompass only the running context or daily living on the whole). Usefulness of specific mHSM apps was consequently not appraised on the same bases in different subcategories of runners. Regarding nonfunctional issues, the runners competing at the international level requested detailed control over who in their sports club and national federation should be allowed access to their data; the less competitive runners had no such issues. Notwithstanding, the runners were willing to adhere to long-term mHSM, provided the technology was adjusted to their personal routines and the output was perceived as contributing to running performance. Conclusions Adoption of mHSM by competitive runners requires clear definitions of monitoring purpose and populations, repeated in practice tests of monitoring items and terminology, and meticulousness regarding data-sharing routines. Further naturalistic studies of mHSM use in routine sports practice settings are needed with nonfunctional ethical and legal issues included in the evaluation designs.
Archive | 2015
Per-Olof Hansson
INTED 2011, International Technology, Education and Development Conference, 7-9 March, Valencia, Spain | 2011
Elin Wihlborg; Per-Olof Hansson
International journal of education and development using information and communication technology | 2014
Per-Olof Hansson; William Jobe
The 10th International Multi-Conference on Society, Cybernetics and Informatics: IMSCI 2016, July 5-8, Orlando, Florida, USA | 2016
Per-Olof Hansson; Elin Wihlborg
Archive | 2015
Per-Olof Hansson
NORKOM | 2015
Elin Wihlborg; Per-Olof Hansson
Journal of Sports Pedagogy and Physical Education | 2015
Per-Olof Hansson