Screen lectures
Short screen lectures have been developed to offer students a visual contact with the teachers. These are also available as pdf files.
To make good screen lectures is not easy. It is quite another way of teaching than standing in front of a class and giving lectures. However when you cannot meet your students face-to-face other media has to be used. We have found that short, 10-15 minutes, screen lectures of high technical quality can give students an introduction to themes they have to study further and trigger their curiosity.
The lecturers in this course have extensive experience with e-learning and e-teaching and have written articles and book chapters about this.
In the screen lecture "Introduction to the e-pedagogy course", Associate Professor Anne Karin Larsen of Bergen University College gives a short presentation of the reason for starting this course and its content.
Associate Professor Grete Oline Hole, also of Bergen University College, discusses e-pedagogy and the pedagogical principles and didactical skills that are important when working with students in e-learning courses.
In the screen lecture about collaborative learning Larsen and Hole discuss what is collaborative learning, why it is important in learning and in international e-learning studies and how to stimulate collaborative learning in e-learning.
Our guest teacher, Associate Professor Jill Walker Rettberg from University of Bergen who is well known for her creative use of blogging gives a lecture about how to use blogging as a tool for reflection and learning in e-learning. She also shares some interesting experiences from her own use of blogs in teaching and as part of her academic work.
In the lecture Multimedia as triggers for learning, Anne Karin Larsen gives a presentation of the experience of using triggers to stimulate discussions and intercultural communication among international students in e-learning courses. Examples from the VIRCLASS courses give concrete ideas about how this can be done.