This article examines program development in teacher education, with an emphasis on how teacher educators pursue coherence. The analysis contributes to existing literature by investigating how coherence is pursued as part of program development and by analytically situating coherence as an emergent achievement that requires the alignment of…

This continuous research within Nordic engineering institutions targets the contexts and possibilities for leadership among engineering education program directors. The IFP-model, developed based on analysis of interviews with program leaders in these institutions, visualizes the program director's informal and formal power. The model is presented…

This study is aimed primarily at the administration of a newly established institute for distance education in Norway, Norsk fjernundervisning (NFU). Purposes of the project, in order of priority, were to provide (1) a working document for the administration of NFU, mapping out available resources, choices of possible media combinations, and the…