In this post I will try to share some thoughts about challenges when it comes to study practical professions on the web.The starting point is the health profession I have developed on the web together with my colleagues, and which I have written a bit about earlier. Health subjects has a long tradition in the consept “learning by doing”. It has been important that the theory and practice should go hand in hand. Master and apprentice principle has been the usual way to bring the knowledge and skills further on.
That's why a lot of professionals have difficulty understanding or accepting that study online can be as good as the old and safe way of teaching. When we, through our employer was asked to do this development work, some of us longed back to "the good old days" when teaching and learning took place in a physical classroom with the dissemination of factual knowledge by a teacher. We had also the opportunity to follow up the students in the practice field and evaluate them together with experienced professionals. The education we have developed online also consists 6 short periods where students and teachers meets, and where practical procedures are reviewed and tested, but it is far from as much time as in the ordinary school.
Will this reduce the quality of the education?
It can be difficult and can take a long time to change attitudes. It can also be difficult for a professional with a proud professional identity to feel that the subject become bits and pieces in relation to the former. One of the problems that may feel hard is that you can feel that you lose control of the students learning process. In traditional teaching, one is present there and then, seize the moment, can provoke, and perhaps inspire.
Whatever, education on the Internet is here to stay, and teachers in any subject must maybe have to learn a new pedagogy in order to cope with the challenges that clearly are present. As the society go through changes, the professionals also have to change.
How can web- teachers be role models, inspire and motivate?
On the other hand, as teachers we have to look on the positive aspects this way of studying can give our students. It gives them a great flexibility because they can study when it suits them. Many adults want, or need, to take education in combination with work or caring tasks, and this can be difficult to combine with the traditional way of organizing teaching. Study on the web also provides good opportunities for individual fit. Another advantage is that the students, in addition to the professional competence, get experience in working on the computer and the internet. This is knowledge workers in all professions need in today`s society.
Are the benefits by study online, for both the society and individuals, greater than the challenges and problems?
http://www.nvu.no/faggrupper/Helsefaggruppa-2005-06.pdf
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Hello Berit!
SvarSlettDette kommer til å bli et spennende år, og jeg tror vi deler de samme tankene om dette emnet.
Ettersom samfunnet og samfunnet endres, skolen har til og endre så vel. I denne utviklingen er det viktig å holde skolene god kvalitet og å lete etter forbedringer overalt.
Jeg ser frem til å samarbeide med deg og Gunn i denne prosessen - og jeg er sikker på at vi vil fungere godt sammen og gjøre endringene så positiv som mulig for dette faget!
Du stiller spørsmål om hvordan vi som lærere kan være gode rollemodeller,og til inspirasjon og motivasjon for elevene som studere på nett. Ser at dette vil være en utfordring, siden man ikke møtes ansikt til ansikt. For å være en god rollemoddel i cyberspace må det vel gå på å være tilgjengelig på nett, vurdere og kommentere etterhvert som produkter blir levert inn? Ellers kan vi vel ikke forvente at elevene skal holde frister?
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