Research interests:

• Professional learning, student active learning, learning design
• Workplace learning
• Technology and learning
• School leadership and school development
• Research and data use in school development, data literacy

 

KI-LED - Artificial intelligence and leadership of school development (project leader)

ILUKS - Technology supported student active learning in teacher education - https://iluks.no/ (project leader)

 

Editorial Board member: Active Learning in Higher Education

Invited keynote and presentations (selected)

Børte, K. (2025) Innovating Teaching Practice: Opportunities and Challenges of Student Active Learning - invited keynote, University of Hertfordshire. London, UK

Børte, K. & Lillejord, S. (2025) AI and systematic reviews. Invited guest lecture, Online – 19 March, 2025, Skolforskningsinstitutet, Stockholm.

Børte, K. (2025) Fra innsikt til utvikling: Systemtikk og dokumentasjon i profesjonsfellesskapet. Dekom-s workshop, 18. Mars, 2025, Amalie Skram VGS, Bergen.

Børte, K (2024) Hvordan arbeide undersøkende med utvikling av teknologi og praksis, Skolelederseminar 11 april 2024, Vestland fylkeskommune

Børte, K (2024) Barriers to student active learning in higher education, Guest lecture - Pedagogical lunch seminar series, 9^th April, University of Agder 

Børte, K (2023) iLUKS – Technology supported student active learning in teacher education. Research day, 13 december 2023 Faculty of Psychology, UiB

Børte, K. (2023) Active Learning – Challenges and possibilities. Invited keynote and seminar on active learning. University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 30^th, March 2023

Børte, K. (2022) Barriers to student active learning in higher education. Invited keynote, on College of Education, Psychological Science Department, Qatar University, seminar on Active learning 02 October 2022

Børte, K. (2022) Den digitale transformasjonen ved Universitetet i Bergen. Digital transformasjon i UH-sektoren: Hvordan skjer den, hva innebærer den, og hvem bestemmer?, 30 mai 2022, Universitetet i Oslo, Forskningsparken.

Conference lecture

• Sølvi Lillejord; Kristin Børte (2025). Revisiting teacher education partnerships – a review of the research 2010-2024. (external link)
• Sølvi Lillejord; Kristin Børte (2015). Partnership in teacher education – a research mapping.. (external link)
• Kristin Børte (2021). Teachers’ technology use in formative assessment practices – a systematic review.. (external link)
• Kristin Børte; Cathrine Edelhard Tømte (2025). Digital Learning Design Tool and Professional Development among Teachers. (external link)
• Kristin Børte; Helene Marie Kjærgård Eide (2022). Research informed technology development for student active learning in teacher education. (external link)
• Kristin Børte; Cathrine Edelhard Tømte (2023). The ILUKS-planner – a digital collaboration tool for teachers’ professional learning.. (external link)
• Kjersti Nedland Røneid; Kristin Børte (2023). Technology supported learning designs – how do student teachers plan student activity in lessons?. (external link)
• Kristin Børte (2022). Barriers to student active learning - Invited Key Note. (external link)
• Kristin Børte (2025). Navigating Barrriers and Opportunities in Active Learning. (external link)
• Kristin Børte (2022). Barriers to student active learning in higher education. (external link)
• Kristin Børte; Helene Marie Kjærgård Eide (2021). Mind the gap - Using barriers to student active learning to inform technology-enhanced active learning in teacher education. (external link)
• Kristin Børte; Sølvi Lillejord (2025). School Leaders’ Data Literacy: A Prerequisite for System Improvement and Just Education. (external link)
• Kristin Børte (2022). Professional Learning Networks as Infrastructure for Teaching. (external link)
• Kristin Børte (2022). Den digitale transformasjonen ved Universitetet i Bergen. (external link)
• Kristin Børte (2021). Studentaktiv læring i lærerutdanningen - Invited Key Note. (external link)
• Kristin Børte; Sølvi Lillejord (2023). Engaging Teacher Students in Productive Collaboration during Practicum.. (external link)
• Kjersti Nedland Røneid; Kristin Børte (2025). Feedback to support pre-service teachers' learning. (external link)
• Kristin Børte; Helene Marie Kjærgård Eide (2022). The use of communicative tools in interdisciplinary professional learning networks promoting student active learning.. (external link)
• Kristin Børte (2010). Challenges faced by software professionals in analogy-based top-down estimation.. (external link)
• Kristin Børte; Sølvi Lillejord (2023). What next? After Accountability, Education Needs an Infrastructure for Learning.. (external link)

Academic article

• Sølvi Lillejord; Kristin Børte (2016). Partnership in teacher education - a research mapping. (external link)
• Kristin Børte; Katrine Nesje; Sølvi Lillejord (2020). Barriers to student active learning in higher education. (external link)
• Sølvi Lillejord; Kristin Børte (2019). Middle leaders and the teaching profession: building intelligent accountability from within. (external link)
• Kristin Børte; Monika Nerland (2010). Software effort estimation as collective accomplishment: An analysis of estimation practice in a multi-specialist team. (external link)
• Sølvi Lillejord; Kristin Børte (2019). Trapped Between accountability and professional learning? School leaders and teacher evaluation. (external link)
• Kristin Børte; Sten Runar Ludvigsen; Anders Irving Mørch (2012). The role of social interaction in software effort estimation: Unpacking the "magic step" between reasoning and decision-making. (external link)
• Kristin Børte; Sølvi Lillejord; Jessica Chan et al. (2023). Prerequisites for teachers’ technology use in formative assessment practices: A systematic review. (external link)
• Kristin Børte; Sandris Zeivots (2026). Active Learning in Higher Education: Inheriting Pasts and Emerging Futures. (external link)
• Kristin Børte; Sølvi Lillejord (2024). Learning to teach: Aligning pedagogy and technology in a learning design tool. (external link)

Research report

• Sølvi Lillejord; Kristin Børte; Katrine Nesje et al. (2018). Learning and teaching with technology in higher education. A systematic review. (external link)
• Sølvi Lillejord; Kristin Børte; Katrine Nesje (2018). De yngste barna i skolen - lek og læring, arbeidsmåter og arbeidsmiljø. En forskningskartlegging. (external link)
• Sølvi Lillejord; Kristin Børte (2017). Lærerutdanning som profesjonsutdanning - forutsetninger og prinsipper fra forskning. Et kunnskapsgrunnlag. (external link)
• Sølvi Lillejord; Kristin Børte; Erik Ruud et al. (2017). Stress i skolen – en systematisk kunnskapsoversikt. (external link)
• Sølvi Lillejord; Kristin Børte; Kristoffer Halvorsrud et al. (2017). Transition from kindergarten to school: A systematic review. (external link)
• Sølvi Lillejord; Lotta Johansson; Esther Tamara Canrinus et al. (2017). Kunnskapsbasert språkarbeid i barnehager med flerspråklige barn – en systematisk forskningskartlegging. (external link)
• Sølvi Lillejord; Kristin Børte; Kristoffer Halvorsrud et al. (2015). Tiltak med positiv innvirkning på barns overgang fra barnehage til skole: En systematisk kunnskapsoversikt. (external link)
• Sølvi Lillejord; Kristin Børte; Erik Ruud et al. (2014). Former for lærervurdering som kan ha positiv innvirkning på skolens kvalitet. En systematisk kunnskapsoversikt. (external link)
• Sølvi Lillejord; Kristin Børte (2014). Partnerskap i lærerutdanningen – en forskningskartlegging. (external link)
• Sølvi Lillejord; Erik Ruud; Peder Erik Fischer-Griffiths et al. (2014). Forhold ved skolen med betydning for mobbing. Forskningsoppsummering. (external link)
• Sølvi Lillejord; Kristin Børte; Katrine Nesje et al. (2017). Campusutforming for undervisning, forskning, samarbeid og læring - en systematisk kunnskapsoversikt. (external link)
• Kristin Børte; Sølvi Lillejord; Lotta Johansson (2016). Evnerike elever og elever med stort læringspotensial: En forskningsoppsummering. (external link)
• Sølvi Lillejord; Kristin Børte (2018). Mellomledere i skolen: Arbeidsoppgaver og opplæringsbehov – en systematisk kunnskapsoversikt. (external link)
• Sølvi Lillejord; Andre Vågan; Lotta Johansson et al. (2016). Hvordan fysisk aktivitet i skolen kan fremme elevers helse, læringsmiljø og læringsutbytte. (external link)

Conference poster

• Kristin Børte; Jessica Chan; Sølvi Lillejord et al. (2022). Teachers' Use of Technology in Formative Assessment Practices: A Systematic Review. (external link)

Other presentation

• Kristin Børte (2025). ILUKS Infrastructure for School Development. (external link)

Doctoral thesis (PhD)

• Kristin Børte (2011). Software effort estimation as collaborative planning activity.. (external link)

Lecture

• Kristin Børte (2025). Innovating Teaching Practice: Opportunities and Challenges of Student Active Learning. (external link)
• Kristin Børte; Sølvi Lillejord (2025). AI and Systematic Reviews. (external link)

See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.

AI LEARN Empowerment of Human Learning 

• Role: Co-Cluster leader: Cluster 4 Capacity for Human Empowerment                Task leader: Leadership and Organizations & Review of Empirical              Research

KI-LED Kunstig intelligens og ledelse av skoleutvikling (prosjektleder)

• Role: Project leader. Funding: Dekomp - VLFK

ILUKS - Innovative lærerstudenter: Undervisningsdesign for kunnskapsbasert studentaktivitet (prosjektleder)

• Role: Project leader. Funding: HK-DIR. Amount: 4,9 MNOK.

For more information project webpage: https://iluks.no/

ILUKS planner - a research based digital learning design tool