online courses

New library databases and 200 000 new e-books, just for you

27.03.2020

Academic Search Complete – the very much appreciated database Academic Search Elite with 2,100 scientific journals has now been upgraded to Academic Search Complete with 7,300 peer reviewed journals. This is a database for all study fields at Arcada. You access ASC through Arcada Finna or Libguides Academic Search Complete is the world’s most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than…

Online pedagogical hierarchy of needs

28.04.2017 ,

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…

Online courses are not rocket science

20.02.2013

Thanks to our phenomenal feedback system (‘pulstagningar’), I have been able to have a look at what kind of online (or actually blended) courses our students prefer. The third week after a course has started our students can give feedback about that course. As a result of the feedback the teachers have the opportunity to make necessary changes in the course. Two of the questions are about our online course…