b-learn seminar, porto, 13.11.06 best practice blended learning presented by bodil ask
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B-learn seminar, Porto, 13.11.06
Best practiceblended learning
Presented by
Bodil Ask
Development ManagementMaster Degree
26 students from Uganda, Ghana, Ethiopia, Tanzania and Norway
Accreditation institution: Agder University College, Norway
120 ECTS – full time study
Started with a face-to-face session in Norway
Development Management Face-to-face
to ensure adequate computer skills provide students with first-hand experience and
understanding of how the virtual classroom works how to collaborate and negotiate meaning in a virtual
classroom.
Quality assured study sites Home universities in the participating countries set up
study sites with access to Internet for their students
Students can meet peers at the local study site
Daily contact with the other students through the net
Cross cultural groups
Development Management
2nd face-to-face after 1 year1. 2 weeks intensive method course at
University of Pretoria, South Africa2. 2 weeks field work in Pumalanga, South
Africa, with 2 professors assisting in the field work
3. Back to their own local study site
Supervisor asynchronous during the last term while thesis writing
Comments from the students - 1
”... study programme provides a holistic appraoach to acquiring knowledge about the problems that affect our planet and the ’living beings’ in it. The course contents are very relevant and useful. We ar using up-to date literature and e-learning methods.We are looking at the world from several perspectives, We are able to integrate these perspectives afterwards and focus in how ’develometal and environmental issues’ are deeply intertwined”
Comments from students - 2 ”… I think it was a good idea to take such
an initiative in introducing the course most especially where Africans were made part of it. I really congratulate the organisers for taking such an initiative. The course content is very relevant because looking at development countries and their rate of development is a big step in addressing this issue and making the world a better place …”