Wednesday, March 27
10:15-10:45 AM
CDT
Edgewod AB

Working as an Online Educator: Challenges when scaling up distance education

Full Paper ID: 38474
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    Stefan Nilsson
    University West
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    Lars Svensson
    University West
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    Johan Lundin
    Gothenburg University

Abstract: In recent years online and blended learning has scaled up from being a pilot endeavour driven by pioneers, to constituting a large portion of many institutions of higher education. In the process, the conditions for the online teacher has gradually changed, and the situation of today is in many ways problematic where student interaction and dialogue has to stand back in favour of time consuming content production, material delivery, and technical problem solving. This paper draws on the experiences from a Scandinavian University to illustrate how this transition can be understood in the light of rapid technological development in combination with slow evolution of pedagogical models for online education.

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