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2011 1.Pdf (1.436Mb) Education across borders Towards e-Didactics of International Module in Socio-cultural Aspects of ICT Editors: Beata Godejord Elzbieta Perzycka Pris kr. 120,- ISBN 978-82-7569-197-0 ISSN 1501-6889 2011, nr. 1 Om Fredrikke Tønder Olsen (1856-1931) Fredrikke Tønder Olsen ble født på handelsstedet Kopardal, beliggende i nåværende Dønna kommune. Det berettes at Fredrikke tidlig viste sin begavelse gjennom stor interesse for tegning, malerkunst og litteratur. Hva angår det siste leste hun allerede som ung jente ”Amtmannens døtre”. Kildene forteller at Fredrikke levde et fascinerende og spennende liv til tross for sine handikap som svaksynt og tunghørt. Hun måtte avbryte sin karriere som gravørlærling fordi synet sviktet. Fredrikke hadde som motto: ”Er du halt, er du lam, har du vilje kjem du fram.” Fredrikke Tønder Olsen skaffet seg agentur som forsikringsagent, og var faktisk den første nordiske, kvinnelige forsikringsagent. Fredrikke ble kjent som en dyktig agent som gjorde et utmerket arbeid, men etter 7 år måtte hun slutte siden synet sviktet helt. Fredrikke oppdaget fort behovet for visergutter, og startet Norges første viserguttbyrå. Hun var kjent som en dyktig og framtidsrettet bedriftsleder, der hun viste stor omsorg for sine ansatte. Blant annet innførte hun som den første bedrift i Norge vinterferie for sine ansatte. Samtidig var hun ei aktiv kvinnesakskvinne. Hun stilte gratis leseværelse for kvinner, inspirerte dem til utdanning og hjalp dem med litteratur. Blant hennes andre meritter i kvinnesaken kan nevnes at hun opprettet et legat på kr. 30 000,- for kvinner; var æresmedlem i kvinnesaksforeningen i mange år; var med på å starte kvinnesaksbladet ”Norges kvinder” som hun senere regelmessig støttet økonomisk. Etter sin død ble hun hedret av Norges fremste kvinnesakskvinner. Blant annet er det reist en bauta over henne på Vår Frelsers Gravlund i Oslo. Fredrikke Tønder Olsen regnes som ei særpreget og aktiv kvinne, viljesterk, målbevisst, opptatt av rettferdighet og likhet mellom kjønnene. Svein Laumann Contents Beata Godejord Preface ............................................................................................................................................... 4 Hallstein Hegerholm Introducing ICT and Learning and the Developing of Digital Portfolio ..................................... 6 Per Arne Godejord ICT and Learning with a European View .................................................................................... 17 Maria Czerepaniak-Walczak Internationalization of education: hope and challenges for universities in the second decade of XXI century .................................................................................................................................... 24 Elzbieta Perzycka In search of useful education on the Internet .............................................................................. 34 Beata Godejord Educational Qualities of Blogging ................................................................................................. 44 Wioletta Kwiatkowska The analysis of comments on Internet education blogs on the example of an international project ICT in Social Life ........................................................................................................................... 55 3 Beata Godejord Preface Articles presented in this issue address topics related the initiative Moodle for International Learning. Within this initiative Nesna University College launched international e-learning course „ICT in Society and Work Life‟ (ITL 103). The course was provided within the structure of „ICT and Learning‟ studies and was based on the previous Norwegian version „IKT i samfunn og arbeidsliv‟. The issue contains texts written by the authors from Norway and Poland who contributed to the realization of the idea of joining students of various nationalities within a learning experience supported by Moodle Learning Management System. The opening paper is the contribution from senior lecturer Hallstein Hegerholm who originated the idea of „ICT and Learning‟ studies and elaborated on the principles on which digital portfolio operates in Nesna University College. These principles lay foundations for the mode of work within all the six e-learning modules realized under the common name „ICT and Learning‟. The paper presents the establishment of „ICT and Learning‟ studies and the description of the digital portfolio. The following contribution is made by Per Arne Godejord, the dean of the Faculty of Scientific Subjects within the structure of which „ICT and Learning‟ studies were provided. The paper addresses the topic of distance education and presents brief history of establishing e-learning in Nesna University College. It also contains references to the process of internationalization initiated by NUC within the courses provided with the support of Moodle Learning Management System. These references are framed by recommendations elaborated on by Norwegian national policy on internationalization within educational sector. Subsequent two papers are contributed by Polish researches from University of Szczecin: prof Maria Czerepaniak-Walczak and dr Elzbieta Perzycka. Prof. Czerepaniak Walczak coveres thoroughly the issues related to the connections between the concept of internationalization and higher education settings. Dr Perzycka explores the question of competencies enabling the provision of „useful‟ education in online environment. She refers to the issues of both teachers and students competencies through the prism of information culture and information literacy. The final contributions are made by the researchers who actively participated in the realization of the module „ICT in Society and Work Life‟: dr Beata Godejord (Nesna University, Poland) and dr Wioletta Kwiatkowska (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland). Dr B. Godejord was the lecturer in the course and originator of the idea of utilizing blogs as tools for e-learning. Her paper addresses the 4 issue of educational qualities of blogging. Blogging is showed through the perspective of the concept of New Learning, effective learning environment, connective learning and e-learning practices and skills. Dr Wioletta Kwiatkowska monitored and supported the participation of students from Poland. Her paper presents the analysis of students‟ comments on their co-students‟ blogs. In her analysis she utilizes the classification of interaction categories „Interaction Process Analysis” by Robert F. Bales, pointing to interesting conclusions. The works on the development of international e-learning module „ICT in Society and Work Life‟ are continued. In this academic year (2011/2012) one on the Polish private colleges – Academy of Business in Dabrowa Gornicza – decided to include the module in their study plans and make it obligatory for two groups of sociology students. We are looking forward to this experience and hope for developing international online studies on a broader scale. 5 Hallstein Hegerholm Nesna University College Introducing ICT and Learning and the Developing of Digital Portfolio Introduction ICT and learning is a subject distributed on Internet from Nesna University College. The study is based on the Learning management system (LMS) Moodle. A foundation of the education is portfolio evaluation. To support the learning processes Guidelines of Portfolio assessment have been developed. There is now a project for internationalization of ICT and learning. This project is developed in cooperation with the University of Stettin. International students with a priority of University of Stettin and Nesna University College, cooperate in a special adapted course. One of the goals for the project is that teachers and researchers also will cooperate on and develop future courses. A foundation for such cooperation will be the further development and adaption of the “Guidelines of Portfolio assessment”. This article will present the subject ICT and learning and summarize the previous work on the Guidelines of Portfolio assessment. The article is based on a socio-cultural view on learning where tools, division of labour and community are focused. ICT and learning ICT and learning is a subject offered by the teacher training of Nesna University College. Nesna University College is located in rural area by the Artic circle. The location and tradition of the university college have favoured different ways of distant education. The subject ICT and learning is an “Internet-study” and deals with education of teacher training students and the continuing teaching of people working with education - especially teachers. The subject is one year of study divided into 2X 30 e-credits. Each half-year study consists of tree modules of 6, 12 and 12 e-credits. The subject was established 1984 and from 1995 also given as a part of distributed education on Internet. The education was offered both in classroom and on Internet until 2001. At that time the students of classroom had access to each other in the classroom community, the teachers of the class, the IT-support system and the teaching given on Internet. From 2001 the only option given was on Internet. In 2002 the portfolio evaluation was established. Later the use of LMS Moodle was implemented. The changes of the subject ICT and learning in the first years of 2000 was based on teachers experience and internal discussions, influence of socio-cultural theory, interviews and a survey completed in 2000. 6 There have been a continuous development of the content
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