December 21, 2007
Tapio Koskinen from Helsinki University of Technology encourage people to think about the future together and then work for that future. It´s important that we take an active role and not just follow what is happening in technology.
December 13, 2007
A challenge for the future will be to have a closer link between learning and change or improvement of the individual, but also to find the original relationship between learning and innovation, says Claudio Dondi, European Foundation for Quality in eLearning, Brussels
Do you agree with him?
December 11, 2007
Henrik Hansson, Stockholm University, Sweden and Peter Mozelius, Department of Computer and Systems Sciences in Sweden talks about the pedagogical challenges. They think a global problem is how to educate large groups of students with quality when your just one theacher. How do you provide support for an individual student when you have thousands of students?
December 4, 2007
Meet Göran Isberg, Director of School Administration in the City of Stockholm, Sweden. In this film he talks about the plans for a swedish version of homework help on the net. It´s called URsmart and the aim is primarely to provide students with support and resources for homework tasks but also for classroom use and for use either by students on their own or with parental or teacher support.
Can students play a part in developing homework help on the net? How do we insure quality?
December 3, 2007
We must not forgot the quality issues and think about how to evaluate the quality in online education. Does anyone have any good ideas how to do this?
December 3, 2007
Hans-Inge Persson, Director of the Swedish agency for flexible learning talks about the importance of encouraging Swedish authorities to make decisions in the wanted direction.
November 30, 2007
It has been very interesting to be at this conference (On-line Educa Berlin). It is especially encouraging to learn how academic actors introduce web 2.0 as part of formal learning. Whatever we think of web 2.0 as a concept, these applications will now reach the students, packaged and channelled through a VLE or just as loose pieces of functionality in a PLE. I’ve heard many here at the conference talking about integrating (even commercial) VLE’s with OSS and freely available web 2.0 applications to allow personalisation of the students’ learning environments. I like this. Encouraging development!
Another reflection, we have some very stimulating win-win projects with developing countries, many of whom actually are making a giant leap frog in developing technology enhanced learning. These collaborations are great ways to develop our own skills while also getting a new perspective on the e-learning domain. It is somewhat hard to find a single entry point in Sweden for those kind of collaborations, finding the most relevant resources to participate in the projects. This blog is a good example of the variety on competences that exists. I would encourage more Swedish partners to participate in these (our) kind of international collaborations.
/Lars Glimbert, Project manager, Stockholm University
November 30, 2007
First of all: great presentation at the Online Educa! Highly Interactive, very innovative. Congratulations!
And now a general comment: It’s good to see that Sweden has such a large amount of agencies promoting the development of digital learning. All the questions that you raised in your short films are absolutely important and are crucial to the further development of the education system. So are the projects and initiaves that you presented.
Nevertheless, I think that the particular acitivities of the agencies should be linked together - maybe on a national level, creating a joint movement for the enhancement of digital education. There are many opportunities of working together - sharing competences, content, experiences or even running systems, platforms, content development together - as far as all agencies seem to have similar goals and (to some extend) similar ”customers”.
Organisations like JISC (UK), SURF (Netherlands) and even small german joint ventures (http://www.mmkh.de) have shown: there are many synergetic effects which can be exploited! But: Collaborative activities, not only in the field of IT modernization, need a joint strategies and goals. And it sometimes takes a lot of time to define those joint visions. Maybe your joint presentation at the Online Educa can be starting point for such a long term and institutionalized collaboration…
Best Wishes!
Martin Vogel
Multimedia Kontor Hamburg gGmbH (http//:www.mmkh.de)
m.vogel@mmkh.de
November 30, 2007
We asked David Kernohan from JISC eLearning, UK about his opinion of digital learning in the future. He thinks the future of elearning is going to be based around particular applications and networks. And he also talks about a flow between institutions and different methods of learning.
Do you agree with him?
November 30, 2007
iI Like this chair because it gives you the opportunity of individual learning. The idea is good but it is neccessary to make choices about this and to make it more interactive. #Good luck!
Lucz Buddelmeijer
Hogeschool van Amsterdam
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