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Background and History • The Boldic Award was created as a part of the original Boldic project ending in 2005. The Award was an integrated part of work-package 5 “Best BOLDIC practise and areas for development” The award was supposed to be a tool for showcasing best practises and successful experiences within the Nordic/Baltic area. The award was given to ODL- practices/activities connected to adult learning. • Earlier winners include: • 2005 NëtverksgymnasietJämtland. Sweden. • 2006 NKI, Norway. • 2007 VitusBeaering, Denmark, • 2008 MKFC, Sverige2009 University of Bergen, Norway • The award ceremony has been held at the different annual conferences the different partner organisations have been involved in. This is for all practical reasons limited to the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian conferences partnered by • FLUID, NADE and SADE for the time being.
The aimofBoldicAward • The BOLDIC AWARD aims to honour people or organisations excelling in the ODL field (Open Distance Learning).
What can be awarded? • Any ODL-activity connected to adult learning meeting one or more of the following criteria • Teaching/learning arrangements • Support systems (for delivery of learning content or/and learning support) • Development of activities, content or understanding within the ODL area. The activities should • Be transferable to the whole BOLDIC region • Be learner focused • Facilitate blended or flexible learning • Be innovative • Be scalable • Have a sustainable strategy • Have a sensible and appropriate approach to technology • Involve continuing evaluation Both persons and organisations can be nominated Nominees must be nominated by an organisation. The nominees have to base their work in one of the BOLDIC partnership countries (or within the Nordic/Baltic area), but are free regarding partners based in other countries.
Nomination process • The nomination is open from 12th April to 31th August 2010. During that time you are welcome to nominate your candidates. • The nomination will be electronic, through a web based nomination form. The link will be posted at the Boldic Perspectives Online website http://www.boldic.net/Default.aspx. The link and the nomination criteria will also be sent to all participants at this conference, and our hope is that this will generate a lot of nominees. We hope you will help us disseminate all relevant information about Boldic Award 2010. • A nomination committee will go through all the nominations during September and the announcement of the winner will be at the NADEs (Norwegian Association for Distance and Flexible Education) annual conference “Future learning arenas – learning at the workplace” 17th and 18th November in the town of Horten outside Oslo. The winners will of course be invited to participate at the conference free of charge and travel costs covered by the Boldic Perspectives Online project.