Alastair Creelman is distance learning coordinator at the University of Kalmar (Section for flexible learning). Born in Dundee, Scotland and with an MA in English Language and Literature from Edinburgh University he has worked in adult and secondary education as well as 12 years in corporate training in the telecom industry. He is particularly interested in widening participation in higher education through learning centres and the development of net-based education. This year he has been part of a project to set up a learning environment in the virtual world, Second Life, together with University College Molde (Norway) and Central Missouri University (USA).
Fredrik Paulsson works as a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Interactive Media and Learning at Umeå University, where he has worked since 1993, with a leave to work a couple of years as a Senior Adviser at the Nat. Agency for Schools. His background is in Computer Science, but he has also a degree in teaching. Connected to his research he´s a member of the Knowledge Management Research Group at KTH.
His main research interests are within the area of infrastructure (and system architecture) for Technology Enhanced Learning, and particularly in relation to the construction of virtual learning environments and digital learning content. He is especially interested in how the choice, architecture and implementation of technology influences the pedagogical possibilities and freedom. It turns out that pedagogy and technology are in fact communicating vessels and that choices made by system developers influences what teachers can do in the classroom!
He´s involved in several interesting projects: He coordinates the SCAM Semantic Web repository project, the “Spindeln” project, which is a brokerage service for digital learning content in Sweden, and he´s involved in the European Melt project, a project with the objective of facilitating the access and use of digital learning resources in Europe, to mention a few things.
You find his own blog at http://www.frepa.org/.
Gunilla Svingby was born in the forties and have three daughters and three grand children. She has worked at Malmö University for 12 years with Teacher Education. Before that she worked at Gothenburg University and spent some years in Norway and Australia. She has a strong interest in the learning that occurs when you actually do things or build knowledge together with others. This interest was manifested in the four national evaluations of Social Science that she led. The students had to act to solve dilemmas with more than one correct and plausible solution. Since 2000 she has been working with developing and researching serious computer games. Just now ten people are working with six projects. They have developed two games, which will be available on the net next spring.
My namn is Pia Flodquist. I work at The Knowledge Foundation in Sweden. I´m the administrator of this blog. You can meet me in our stand The Swedish Learning Space at Online Educa in Berlin November 28 - 30, 2007. Give us your opinion about technology-supported learning. Send your reflections to swedishlearningspace@gmail.com for publishing. Your recorded “posts” should not be longer than 1 minute, or if you want us to publish a written post - do not write longer than 1500 letters. We reserve the right to edit every post.
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November 30, 2007 at 3:40 pm
The five course menue must now feed peole so that things really start to happen. The road was narrow at the beginning (80’s) and many have tried to widen it but it has taken such a long time. Now when there are some parts of the road which have motorway standards, lets now let in the traffic on it: students first; meanwhile faculties need to refresh their driving licenses and be trained and education institutions need managers and administrator who are aware of the necessity of knowledge economy and methods to catch that demand.
As was said in one of presentations: In the future the employer might not care from where the training comes (from a Swedish university, from another edcuational provider, from a Chinese university). If the student has got the right relevant training (whereever it comes from) s/he will be employed.
December 3, 2007 at 4:22 pm
Who is guestguest2? I understand allowing anonymous comments, but is anonymous blogging on a blog like this a good idea? There are several blog posts on the front page by guestguest2 - same person or just sloppy?
December 3, 2007 at 4:32 pm
Guestguest2 is the account we opened for the conference Online Educa in Berlin 28-30 nov 2007. Guestguest2 is several persons.
The visitors at the conference wrote posts and comments in our stand and published on the blog. These posts/comments are made by Guestguest2. But as you can see almost everyone who wrote a post or comment also wrote their name under the post, but a few forgot to do it.