Contributors
Grete Oline Hole
Grete Oline Hole, RN, Cand. Polit, is Associate Professor at the Centre for Evidence-based Practice at the Department of Health and Social Sciences at Bergen University College. She is a nurse by profession and holds a Master Degree in Sociology, with further education in the use of ICT in teaching and learning. Her research interests are in the development of professional knowledge, the use of ICT in Higher Education and Communities of Learning. She has written a number of textbooks and articles related to the use of ICT in Higher Education. E-mail: grete.oline.hole@hib.no
Anne Karin Larsen
Anne Karin Larsen is Associate Professor at Bergen University College, Department of Health and Social Sciences, on the Social Work Education Programme. She is a social worker by profession and holds a Masters Degree in Health Promotion and Health Psychology, She has also studied Mass Communication, and ICT in Teaching and Learning. She is the project leader of the VIRCLASS project since the beginning in 2004, and the project leader of the EU-funded project Social Work-Virtual Campus (SW-VirCamp). She has developed a Virtual Book for Social Work in Europe and digital learning resources for the VIRCLASS Internet courses. Her research interests are related to social work education, the use of ICT in Higher Education, Communities of Learning and community work education. She has written a number of articles related to social work and e-learning. E-mail: anne.larsen@hib.no. Websites: www.virclass.netJill Walker Rettberg
Jill Walker Rettberg is Associate Professor of Digital Culture at the University of Bergen. Her research is primarily on blogs, participatory and social media, and electronic literature. Jill began blogging at jilltxt.net in October 2000, and has used blogs in her teaching since 2003. In 2008 she published the book Blogging on Polity Press, and co-edited the anthology Digital Culture, Play, and Identity: A World of Warcraft Reader which was published by the MIT Press. She has written a number of articles on blogging and learning, most of which are available at http://jilltxt.net/txt
Background image
Background image of this Virtual Book is made from ambulation flight, photographed by Wonderlane. Creative Commons - By attribution
The Media Centre, Bergen University College
The main activities of the Media Centre are media development and production related to new media and e-learning courses.
The Web
With the vast diversity of information available on the Internet, it is increasingly important to develop web pages which stand out and yet communicate the required information. Our web designers not only provide dynamic solutions based on multimedia, they also maintain a constant focus on developing functional, accessible and standardised web designs.
The Media Centre compiles web designs both internally for the University College and for external customers, particularly related to culture, information and education.
Visualisation
The Media Centre is a creative melting pot, where a number of different academic and technical groups come together to create new, exciting and original solutions. Working alongside our skilled programmers are several persons with backgrounds related to the arts. This allows us to provide not only complete productions but also supply assistance with parts of productions related to graphic design, illustrations, photos and animations.
Video
The Media Centre has the equipment and expertise required for advanced video productions. The results of these can be supplied on tape, DVD or streamed via the Internet.
Acknowledgement
The course is a The course is a VIRCLASS production (The Virtual Classroom for Social Work in Europe) made possible by grants from Norway Opening Universities (NUV) and Høgskolen i Bergen.