Azusa Nakata

Azusa Nakata is a project manager in the Learning and Educational Technology (LET) Research Lab at the University of Oulu, Finland. She has coordinated and contributed to multiple European projects, including Nordplus and Erasmus+ Cooperation Partnership projects. Her projects focus on designing and implementing scientifically grounded digital tools and environments to enhance distance education, hybrid learning, and student-centred collaborative learning.

Her doctoral research investigates students' productive social interactions in online computer-supported collaborative learning settings by focusing on the transactive quality of negotiation processes during the group-level regulation of learning and their impact on the social and emotional climate within the group.

Research interests

  • Computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL)
  • Social interaction and transactivity
  • Socially shared regulation of learning (SSRL)
  • Group dynamics
  • Online and hybrid learning processes

Researcher information

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Contact information

E-mail

azusa.nakata@oulu.fi

Phone number

+358 50 4764776