Ammar Bahadur Singh

Postdoctoral researcher,

Department of Educational Sciences and Arts

Mälardalen University, Västerås and Eskilstuna, Sweden

Email: ammar.singh@mdu.se or abs.sireta@gmail.com

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4394-7571

https://www.mdu.se/en/malardalen-university/staff?id=ammar.singh

Research profile

Ammar Bahadur Singh is a postdoctoral researcher in higher education pedagogy. He holds a PhD in education with focus on digital/online pedagogy from the University of Oslo. His work critically examines social and collaborative learning, human and technological agency, and epistemic practices in digitally mediated environments. The central focus on his study is how agency in teaching and learning emerges in and through collaborative activities and how technologies assist participants in enacting and developing their agency in collaborative meaning making practices.  He has good experience in designing, facilitating, and researching online and blended learning environments, with a particular focus on how pedagogical designs shape agency, knowledge construction, and professional identity in higher education.

List of publications

  1. Singh, A. B. (in press). Perspective: Integrating AI in massive open online courses: Teachers’ roles in facilitating human–AI collaboration and critical engagement in MOOCs. In Y. Jian-Hong (Ed.), Implementation strategies and effects of massive open online courses. IntechOpen.
  • Joshi, D. R., Khanal, B., Chapai, K. P. S., & Singh, A. B. (2026). Role of secondary school students’ AI acceptance in mathematics learning in shaping academic achievement. Social Sciences & Humanities Open, 13, 102235. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssaho.2025.102235
  • Joshi, D. R., Singh, A. B., Chapai, K. P. S., & Joshi, B. M. (2025). Digital literacy matters: Analysis of PISA data 2022 on how literacy, confidence, and resource use shape math achievement. Mathematics Education Research Journal. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13394-025-00546-z
  • Singh, A. B. (2025). Exploring the Symbiotic Relationship between Dialectics and Dialogical Approaches to Education in the Era of Artificial Intelligence: A Philosophical Perspective. Journal for the Philosophical Study of Education, Vol. 5 
  1. Singh, A. B. & Haugsbakken, H.G.S. (2023). Engendering collaborative transformative learning in an institutional xMOOC. In Rómulo P., Cathrine T., Linda B., Lise D., & Lars G. (Eds.)  Digital transformation in higher education.  Springer.
  1. Singh, A. B. (2022). Examining students’ collaborative epistemic actions in a MOOC learning environment. Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice, 19(4). https://ro.uow.edu.au/jutlp/vol19/iss4/19
  1. Singh, A. B. (2022). Making Sense of Collaborative Learning Practices in the ICTPED MOOC. In M. Ranieri, L. Menichetti, S. Cuomo, D. Parmigiani, and Marta Pellegrini (Eds.), ATEE Spring Conference 2020-2021. Book of Abstracts (pp 235-238). Italy: Firenze University Press. 
  1. Singh, A. B. (2022). Students’ Collaborative Epistemic Strategies in a MOOC Learning Environment.  A paper presented at World Education Research Association Conference 4/22/2022. https://doi.org/10.3102/1897118.
  1. Singh, A. B., & Engeness, I. (2021). Examining Instructors’ Roles in Facilitating Students’ Learning Process in Pedagogical Information and Communication Technology Massive Open Online Course. Cultural-Historical Psychology, 17 (2), 76-89. https://doi.org/10.17759/chp.2021170208
  1. Engeness, I., Nohr, M., Singh, A. B., & Mørch, A. (2020). Use of videos in the Information and Communication Technology Massive Open Online Course: Insights for learning and development of transformative digital agency with pre-in-service teachers in Norway. Policy Futures in Education, 18(4), 497–516. https://doi.org/10.1177/1478210319895189?
  1. Singh, A. B. & Mørch, A. I. (2018). An Analysis of Participants’ Experiences of Learning from the First International MOOC Offered at the University of Oslo. Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy, 13 (1), 40-64. https://doi.org/10.18261/issn.1891-943x-2018-01-04
  1. Singh, A. B. (2018). Assessing the role of massive open online courses (MOOCs) in higher education: opportunities and challenges for learning. In M. Corneli et al. (Eds.), NELTA ELT Forum, 4, 97-113. https://neltaeltforum.wordpress.com/2017/06/02/1221/ammar/?
  1. Singh, A. B. (2016, June 24). Learning through MOOCs. Higher Education Development Association. http://uv-net.uio.no/wpmu/hedda/2016/06/24/guest-blogger-learning-through-moocs/ .This blog article summarizes my master’s thesis and discusses the potential for innovation in pedagogical practices in online higher education, specifically in the context of online courses.
  1. Singh, A. B. (2014, November 21). Tuition fees for non-EU/EEA students in Norway: Who will bear the brunt of it? Higher Education Development Association.  http://uv-net.uio.no/wpmu/hedda/2014/11/21/student-blogger-tuition-fees-for-non-eueea-students-in-norway-who-will-bear-the-brunt-of-it/. This blog article discusses the nuances of tuition fees in Nordic countries and how Norway wants to impose discriminatory practices on students from so-called third countries.

Conference/seminar participation and presentation

 Topic of presentationWorkshop/ConferenceDate
 Individual agency in the shadow of proxy agency: Tensions between personal agency and proxy agency in higher education NERA Conference 2026, Aarhus, Denmark.4-6 March 2026
 Spaces of Reasoning: A New Approach to Learning in Higher EducationThe annual online conference/symposium of the Society for the Philosophical Study of Education (SPSE)14-15 Nov. 2025
 Being, Doing and Becoming as Competent Learners in Digital Learning Environments19th international Research in Distance Education and e-Learning (RIDE), Organised by University of London13-14 March  2025
 Education at the Crossroad of Human and Technological AgencyThe annual conference/symposium of the Society for the Philosophical Study of Education (SPSE)15-16 November 2024
 Exploring the symbiotic relationship between dialogue and dialectics in pedagogical practicesEthics in Education in Times of Transformation Online Conference/Symposium organized by The Society for Philosophical Study in Education3-4 December 2023
 Collaborative learning in digital spacesWork Integrated Learning (WIL), University of West, Sweden7-9 December 2022
 A framework for transformative learning in a digital collaborative learning environmentThe Society for the Philosophical Study of Education (Online)4-5 November 2022
 Examining collaborative epistemic activities for developing conceptual understanding of learning tasks in a massive open online course9th Nordic-Baltic ISCAR, Helsinki14-16 June 2022
 Role of Technologies in the Reconstruction of Epistemic Relationship Between Instructors and StudentsThe NERA Conference, USN, Norway1-3 June 2022
 MOOC as an epistemic ecosystem9th Nordic Conference on Adult Education and Learning, Tønsberg, Norway18-20 May 2022
 Enacting agency in online collaborative learning meetings  2022, World Education Research Association (WERA) online21-26 April 2022
 Agency in online teaching and learningConversation Analysis in Education, USN, Norway5-8 April 2022
 Dialectical epistemic activities in a MOOC learning environment Authors: Ammar Singh and Irina Engeness, Presenter: Ammar Singh  1st International Symposium on Digital Transformation 15-16 February 2022
 Engendering transformative learning in and through an institutional xMOOC  Digital Transformations in Nordic Higher Education (NOS-HS)7 February 2022
 Making sense of collaborative learning practices in the ICTPED MOOC  ATEE Spring Conference (Online)28-29 October 2021
 Learning and conceptual understandingThe International Monash Cultural-Historical Theory Reading Group (online)29 September 2021
 Examining instructors’ role in facilitating students’ learning process in the ICTPED MOOC Authors: Ammar Singh and Irina Engeness, Presenter: Ammar SinghQUINT (Quality in Nordic Teaching, Nordic Centre of Excellence) Ph.D. Summer Institute 2021 (online)31 August 2021
 Dilemmas in a case study research design in online micro-pedagogical activities: A case study of a MOOCATEE-EDiTE-ELTE- Research in Teacher Education- The Next Generation (online)11 June 2021
 Examining instructors’ roles in facilitating students’ learning in the ICTPED MOOCNordic Research Councils in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NOS-HS) Organized by University of Agder, Norway and KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden30-31 March 2021
 Learning through MOOCs: A case of the first international MOOC offered by the University of Oslo in 2015International Conference MOOCs, Informal Language Learning and Mobility (20-21 Oct. 2016) at Milton Keynes, Open20-21 October 2016

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