Torhild Slåtto: Online Education as part of a busy life in the North

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?