Conference paper
Driving online education: The Swedish Net University - A case study in purpose and pedagogy
Proceedings of the 23rd Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education Conference, Vol.1, pp.131-135
Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE) Conference: Who's learning? Whose technology?, 23rd (Sydney, Australia, 03-Dec-2006–06-Dec-2006)
Sydney University Press
2006
Abstract
This paper maps the development of the Swedish Net University and raises theoretical and practical questions about its purpose and its effect on pedagogically sound e-learning. The paper analyses what happens when e-learning is driven from the top and universities are rewarded with money for putting their courses online. It also studies the effects of online availability of university courses for marginalised groups in society. It is clear from research undertaken for this paper that mature age, remote area, immigrant and female students Sydney University Presshave more opportunity to study because of the establishment of the Net University in Sweden. The extent to which social engineering was a factor in the government's decision to create the Net University is discussed in relation to this broadening of recruitment. The fact that the Net University is a virtual organisation which acts as a broker for courses is also studied. Some courses are specially designed to be offered online while others are traditional courses that are simply downloaded to the net. Contrasting the two enables the author to argue for a pedagogy of e-learning.
Details
- Title
- Driving online education: The Swedish Net University - A case study in purpose and pedagogy
- Authors
- Michael Christie (Author) - Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
- Contributors
- L Markauskaite (Editor)P Goodyear (Editor)P Reimann (Editor)
- Publication details
- Proceedings of the 23rd Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education Conference, Vol.1, pp.131-135
- Conference details
- Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE) Conference: Who's learning? Whose technology?, 23rd (Sydney, Australia, 03-Dec-2006–06-Dec-2006)
- Publisher
- Sydney University Press
- Date published
- 2006
- ISBN
- 9781920898564
- Copyright note
- Copyright © 2006 Christie, M. Reproduced here with permission of the author. The author(s) assign to ascilite and educational non-profit institutions a non-exclusive licence to use this document for personal use and in courses of instruction provided that the article is used in full and this copyright statement is reproduced. The author(s) also grant a non-exclusive licence to ascilite to publish this document on the ascilite web site (including any mirror or archival sites that may be developed) and in electronic and printed form within the ascilite Conference Proceedings. Any other usage is prohibited without the express permission of the author(s). For the appropriate way of citing this article, please see the frontmatter of the Conference Proceedings.
- Organisation Unit
- School of Education - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99448721202621
- Output Type
- Conference paper
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