Niels Christian Vestergaard

Aarhus Social and Health Care College Denmark

We offer:

Short termed social and health educational programmes

Level 1: 14 monthLevel 2: 18 – 24 month

Introduction courses 20/40/60 weeksSupplementary training programmes

We have around 1000 yearly students, 3000 persons for supplementary training.

30 % are immigrants/refugees

Entry requirements – basic primary school or graduating the intro year

Age from 16 to 61 years

We have:

Many students with personal problemsMany with diagnosis

Many who have to be re-educated to another work area.

Huge number of “bad readers”Huge number of people who failed primary

school.Lot of students who starts the third or

fourth career of education.

We know that if students fail at our college – 5years later most of them will receive social

benefits.

They will finally be disadvantaged in the statistics.

You might consider if they also were disadvantaged when the were at our college.

One initiative to support students and to fight drop out.

SosuMedia

A unit for production and developmentof high quality

pedagogical educational material within the area of

social and health education.

SosuMedia

Established in 2002

Project leader&

3 multimedia designers.

The extraordinary possibilities of interactive visual technology to increase the quality of educational

material

Basically for all kind of students But especially we believe that interactive visual

based educational material would be very supportive for students with special needs or

special challenges to manage education.

We believe in

The web-based materials produced by SosuMedia

are always reflected in those learning processes inwhich the participants develop their professional and personal

competences – and especially theirmotivation, curiosity and learning desire.

We have now more and more a special focus on learners with low educational

background.

The media and learning philosophy of sosuMedia

Our media and learning philosophy is very much based on an interpretation and adaption of the media pedagogics developed by the MIT Media Lab in Boston and implemented in the global youth project Computer Clubhouse Network.

This media pedagogics is based on a radical expansion of the constructivist approach adding to this an important and very practical design and communication process.

The media and learning philosophy of sosuMedia

• Principle 1: Support Learning Through Design Experiences

• Principle 2: Help Members Build on Their Own Interests

• Principle 3: Cultivate an Emergent Community of Learners

• Principle 4: Create an Environment of Respect and Trust

In many ways we are very much inspired by the Computer Clubhouse philosophy (MIT lab Boston).

Principle 1: Support Learning Through Design Experiences

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• Immigrants and refugees

• 25 – 30% of Danes are ”bad readers” in away that they have problems by reading out the message of a text.

• youngsters – who don`t have personal experience relating

to many main subjects and challenges in care giving.

• Disadvantaged people with not much previous school success.

• But everyone can benefit from high quality visual interactive learning material.

Who can especially benefit?

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• www.sosumedia.com• Presentation of examples of basic productions.

• www.gad.dk• When we leave the book and go electronic.

• www.regionweb.dk• It`s learning – a platform where students can chose how

to deliver – • A speak• written material• A video

• www.ordbog.dk• Visual wordbook for bad readers and a lack of

conceptual understanding.

• www.TUB.dkIts material moved supplementary training to be a part of your daily work at your workplace.

What are we talking about?

Changing the students from being consumers of educational material to be producers of educational material.

Cooperative learning.

www.skolemateriale.com

“Producers of educational material to the whole “ world”.

What are we focusing on now?

Learnin

“The day we have educational material, which is just as funny and motivating as “FIFA2011” that will be the day where my son will be very wise”

What are we focusing on now?

Learning Games

Creating pedagogical guidelines connecting to exiting free ware tools

To make it easy for teachers to support their students to become producers

The future

CONSUMER OF MATERIAL18 year old student

Learning by using the same material in mathematic as his little sister on 12 year

PRODUCER OF MATERIAL18 year old student

Learning by producing material in mathematic to his little sister on 12 year

TRANSNATIONAL COOPERATON ABOUT PRODUCTION.

CHANGE COLLEGES TO BECOME LEARNING LABS: “PRODUCTION COMMUNITIES.”

The future

To produce visual material:

If a person or a group of persons are supported to make a visual storytelling about themselves – their self understanding, their believe, their dreams and perhaps about their attitude to own health and health understanding

It creates a huge self-reflection when the see the see and hear them self during the production process towards the final result.

The future: the disadvantaged and health promotion