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Scandinavian Values in ODL- Can they be preserved?

Scandinavian Values in ODL- Can they be preserved?. Niels Henrik Helms, DEL. Hype Cycle. Leaving the Hype. Nothing much changed! - Wrong!! Schools will always be the same! - Wrong! The teacher knows better! - Wrong! The Scandinavian Approach is unique! - HMM, Might be right!. Scenarios.

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Scandinavian Values in ODL- Can they be preserved?

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  1. Scandinavian Values in ODL- Can they be preserved? Niels Henrik Helms, DEL

  2. Hype Cycle

  3. Leaving the Hype • Nothing much changed! - Wrong!! • Schools will always be the same! - Wrong! • The teacher knows better! - Wrong! • The Scandinavian Approach is unique! - HMM, Might be right!

  4. Scenarios

  5. Scenario 1 - We continue as always • Economy • Form Vs. Competencies • Customer Demands…

  6. Scenario 3 - “Global Campus” • It happens!! • Currently, more than 350.000 unique students are enrolled in fully online degree granting programs, generating $1.75 billion in tuition revenues for institutions in 2001/2002. • The distance-learning market for fully online degree programs is growing at a rate of 40 percent annually • The relationship between formal qualifications and competencies? • BIG - is beautiful…

  7. Scenario 2 - “Introvert e-learning” • It happens right now! • An unholy alliance between students, schoolmanagement and central authorities • Better (and Cheaper) - • Resources?? (Learning Objects) • The Learner (Learning Subjects) • Competence-Gap??

  8. Scenario 4 Global-Flexible-Learning just for Me • Transparency?? • Static Learning Objects - Dynamic Knowledge and Learning • Clearing of Competencies

  9. A Bricolage of Reasons • Enhancement of Human Resources • Criticism of educational institutions and their failure to deliver what is required • No increase in public resources • New form of regulation (NPM) • More market orientated approach • Emphasis on standards and accountability

  10. New Rules • Speed • Access • ROI • Flexibility

  11. Speed Access ROI Flexibility Slowness Closed Institutions Formal Qualifications Rigidity Playing by the new Rules

  12. The Question of Change - A Metaphor Our Life The Priest

  13. Changes in the Educational Landscape • Learning just in Case • Learning just in Time • Learning just for Me…

  14. Growing Subjectivism! • In the industrial society we tried to objectivise everything… • Now we go the other way round - You have to be unique - You have to tell your own story…

  15. Open Flexible Distance Learning • Open? • A Question of Access - not a Social Issue • Flexible - For Whom? • Learners • Providers • Companies

  16. The Vital Questions are: • Does the teacher-learner separation enhance the possibilities for the learner both to learn and to complete the course? • Does the chosen technology enhance flexibility and collaborative learning? • Are the learning processes designed in the best possible way in relation to the learner’s needs and potentials?

  17. We need something • We have the bricks • We need scaffolding - The DNA of learning • We need the cement - The processes of learning

  18. The Scandinavian Approach is unique -HMM!! Might be right • Dialogue as a way to construct meaning and knowledge… • Storytelling… • The metamorphosis of standards to uniqueness

  19. Nordic Pedagogy is a SAAB or a Danish Blue Cheese

  20. ODL without Scandinavian Values is: • Loading not learning - • Informations without knowledge creation • Digging the gap between the web-literates and web-illiterates • Well - it’s hopeless

  21. ODL with Scandinavian Values calls for: • Openness to change • Developing core-business • Collaboration • Marketing

  22. Storytelling Dialogue Reflection Ready Fire Aim

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