In 2000, she became involved in the development of online courses in Chinese and started to develop an interest in online learning. In 2010 she received the Lund University pedagogical award for her work with new technologies for Chinese language teaching. For the past years she has been working at the university Centre for Educational Development with projects concerning among other things e-learning, virtual worlds as learning spaces, personal learning environments and teaching with visual media. She is particularly interested in research areas such as massive open online course design, motivational psychology and gamification of education.