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Job description Applicants are invited for a three- or four- year Postdoc position at the Department of Education, University of Oslo. We are seeking a candidate with deep insight and interest in investigating the interaction between collaborative learning processes in specific knowledge domains in educational sciences and AI tools and infrastructures. Different types of AI (generative and domain specific intelligent technologies) change the conditions for student learning in higher education. The position is anchored in the learning sciences a field in rapid development. The field needs to improve both descriptions, understanding, and explanations about the interaction that takes place between students, content, context and AI. The learning sciences is an interdisciplinary field of knowledge, building on learning-theoretical principles but also capitalizing on research from various other subfields – educational psychology, sociology of education, design studies or computer science, and more recently, learning analytics and AI in education. GenAI have the last years changed important parts of the knowledge infrastructures for students in higher education. Multiple resources contribute to form their learning trajectories. To navigate and use multiple resources increases the complexity for students learning processes and demands for agency and cognitive efforts change. Today we have limited insight into students’ processes and outcomes with AI within specific areas in higher education. This postdoc project is planned as design-based research (DBR) study based on different AI tools and infrastructures. Design-based research is a specific design approach that has been developed in the learning sciences over the last 30 years. It implies that researchers and practitioners collaborate in the design, implementation and analysis of the project. They will usually have different roles in the different phases of the projects, and a DBR study usually runs in several iterations