Guiding teachers to start their first online or blended course is a challenge. How, and with what shall I start? While many starts to focus on different online tools, I think you need to look at the pedagogical aspects. With these questions, and as a subject to our ‘pedagogical café’ (a place where staff meet and discuss different themes), I tried to create an ‘online learning hierarchy of needs’. It’s…
Dear readers, As promised, this week it’s time to get familiar with the NURED Project lead partner Finland & Arcada University of Applied Sciences. Finland is often presented as the land of a thousand lakes and summer villas. The land of dark winters, and a sun that never sets in the summer. The land of Mika Häkkinen, Jean Sibelius, Moomin trolls and Marimekko. There are 5.5 million of us Finns,…
Welcome to the NURED Project blog on inside.arcada.fi, we are very happy that you found us! Here you will find updates about the project itself, as well as the talent behind it. But for now, let’s start at the very beginning: our logo. A good project needs a good name, so what does “NURED” stand for? Just letters thrown together, or something more? And what about the rest of the…
En fråga pedagoger och andra tänkt på är om (hög)skolan ska träna sina studenter att klara av sitt framtida yrke eller bör de utbilda dem? Och vad är egentligen skillnaden? Förenklat skulle man kunna använda sig av Blooms taxonomier för att förstå skillnaden (se bild). De tre nedersta nivåerna skulle alltså i stort räcka för att en student kan komma ut i arbetslivet och genomföra sitt yrke. De tränas, så…