NVL - Distans Presentations

1. Towards a policy for distance
learning in Iceland
Arnór Guðmundsson
Director of Education

2. Overview
• Previous policy and its lessons:
– distributed learning
– Implementation and infrastructure
– link to regional policy
• Ongoing work on new policy
– process and challenges
– vision and strategy
– next steps

3. Distributed learning

4. Implementation of policy
• Differences between levels of education.
• Link to regional policy
• Infrastructure
• Learning Centers

5. The Geography of Services

6. Number of students in distance
learning
0
1000
2000
3000
4000
5000
6000
1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
Upper Secondary schools
Universities

7. Distance students by region
in fall 2011
0 200 400 600 800 1000 1200 1400 1600
Suðvestursvæði
Vesturlandssvæði
Vestfjarðasvæði
Norðvestursvæði
Norðaustursvæði
Austursvæði
Suðursvæði
Erlendis
Universities
Upper Secondary schools

8. Vision
• In Iceland students have access to distance learning
that provides more access to learning
resources, flexibility in studying and diminishes
regional and social differences
• Distance learning supports the opportunities of
education institutions in the country side to offer
greater variety of courses, increase quality and meet
the needs of people in less populated areas
• Distance learning is of high quality and contributes to
efficiency in education and the financing of educational
provisions

10. Strategy
• Students
• Teaching and learning
• Curricula and course offering
• Governance
• Funding
• Research and evaluation

11. Next step: ask the questions
• What are the needs of the students?
• What changes are happening in the area of
teaching and learning, f.ex. digital pedagogy?
• How should we structure the curricula and course
offerings?
• What kind of governance? Networks? Regions?
Centers?
• Funding models: money follows the student?
• Research on pedagogy, evaluation