Guidance online

Guidance Online case Otava

Nya vindar för vägledning Mariehamn 15.9.2016

Otava Folkhögskola established 1892 online since 1997

Online Upper Secondary School for Adults Online Comprehensive School for Adults

Photo: Jere Lauha

students

Travelling at work

Parents with small kids at

home

guidance

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(online) presence

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guidance begins on the web site…

and continues in various channels

Anna’s story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGnv8-nPWG4

extrovert introvert

• energy outwards • thinks aloud • reacts quickly • active in interaction

• energy inwards • forms an opinion

before expresses anything aloud

• reacts slowly • passive in interaction

Contextual/situational silence

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How to identify what kind of guidance each student needs?

Making a deal with the student at the beginning Asking right questions Background information through networks e.g.

workshop coaches, outreach youth workers, social workers, parents

Reading between the lines Learning logs Data from the learning platform But what about those who simply disappear - ?

In learning logs at least part of the invisible becomes visible

learning platforms

learning analytics

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flagging

peer support

the feeling of belonging is sometimes enough

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Happy end https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmvMR6Y7Nes

Thank you!

Taru Kekkonen [email protected]

+358 44 794 3517