Torhild Slåtto: Online Education as part of a busy life in the North
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Online education as part of busy life
in the North
Flexible Education NorwayTorhild Slåttoexecutive director
hundred years ago …
Ernst G. Mortensen went to America to learn…
First course: Accounting
Technology: Online tools – many platforms Students: Urban – rural, young – adults,
on travel – living abroad, Norwegian children abroad etc. etc.
3 examples on the tractor seat (iPod) while waiting for customers (smart phone) in the mountain cabin (mini computers)
1. Being a farmer
- a financial
challenge
Course in economics for farmers:
Online, modulizedPodcasts Assignments Contact with online teacher
Opportunity: Listen to podcasts while plowing, harrowing or fertilizing
2. The taxi driver who wants to start her/his own taxi company
need a license
Provided by NKI The course is chopped up in small pieces The taxi driver receives small «nano»
portions every week Studies while waiting for customers (– or at
home – cafe – library) Reading, assignments, questions,
communication with teacher, testing Getting prepared for exam – passing exam Result: License for taxi business
«Nano learning»
3. Theory and practice for the Nordic Sami people
Work in the mountains
+part time education
BA in reindeer husbandry – opportunity to study their own profession
Study while looking after the reindeer herd in the mountains Making tacit knowledge visible (project
assignments) Learning from science (ecology,
meteorology, biology, geology etc.)
Sami University, Kautokeino
What will happen education – technology
in the next 100
years?
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