Presented at the NVL Distans seminar in the Faroe Islands 3 May 2018

1. USING ICT
IN GUIDANCE
AND
IN DISTANT LEARNING
AT FJARNÁM
KST SUM AMBOÐ
Í FJARLESTRI OG VEGLEIÐING Á FJARNÁM

2. Julianna Deirdre Hansen
Career Guidance Counsellor
- at distant learning centre Fjarnám in Klaksvík
- at University of Faroe Islands
2017 MA in Career Guidance and Counseling, University of Faroe Islands
2013 BSc Social Science and Community Planning, University of Faroe Islands
2000 Educated ICT School Counselor - worked with integrating ICT into education
and teaching, 1993- 2007, MMR
1985 Teacher Training College, FL, - Teacher in primary and secondary schools for
22 years
2000-03 Advisor in teaching English and ICT, LMS/NÁM
2015-18 Member of ”ICT and Guidance” and ”Distans” in
NVL, Nordic Network for Adult Learning

3. ICT in Career Guidance at Fjarnám
• The goal is to provide Lifelong Guidance – as
described by ELGPN:
“The European Lifelong Guidance Policy
Network, ELGPN was established in 2007, with
the aim of assisting its member-countries and
the European Commission in developing
European co-operation on lifelong guidance in
both the education and the employment
sectors”
• These guidelines have been translated,
adapted to Faroese circumstances and handed
to Faroese authorities in May, 2017.

4. Career Guidance - a New Area in the Faroe
Islands
1.The MA education in CGC at the Faroese
University (2013-2017)
and
2. NVL groups (Nordic Network for Adult
Learning)
- have promoted the importance and need
for using
ICT in Career Guidance and Counselling
in Nordic remote regions – Åland, Greenland
and the Faroe Islands

5. Role of ICT according to research:
“Social media in career services was
experienced as means for delivering
information and medium for one-
to-one communication, an
interactive working space, and
impetus for paradigm change and
reform.”
Source: Kettunen, Vuorinen,
Sampson (2013)

6. Research done by Jaana Kettunen et al.
• “Success in developing competency for social media in
career services is a dynamic combination of cognitive,
social, emotional and ethical factors that are interwoven
• Competency for existing and emerging technologies in
career services is not only about a set of new skills.
• The challenge to guidance practitioners as a profession
is to decide how to fully, and best use existing and
emerging technologies
• We can create new practices and paradigms to better
reach individuals who need assistance with career
exploration and decision making.”
Challenges:
• Emerging technology provides new oportunities to serve
individuals
• Key challenge to ensure ICT qualification for CGCs
• Increasing importance to be able to work in this new
mode of using ICT

7. “Social media is a progress,
where individuals and groups
build up a common
understanding and meanings
with contents, communities
and web 2.0 technology.”
Sources: Ahlquist et al., (2010) and Kolbwich
& Maurer (2006)
Content
Community
Social
media
Web 2.0

8. Dimensions of
variation
Ability to use
social media for
delivering
information
Ability to use
Social media for
delivering career
services
Ability to utilise
socil media for
collaborative
career
exploration
Ability to utilise
social media for
co-careering
Approach to
social media
Technology
focused
Content focused Pedagogically
focused
Systematically
focused
Function of
social media in
career services
Means for
delivering
information
Medium for one-
to-one
communication
Interactive
working space
Impetus for
paradigm
change and
reform
Online skills Media literacy Online writing Online discource Online presence
Ethical principles Accuracy, validty Privacy Confidentiality Professional
proficiency
Personal
characteristics
Motivated Patient Confident Innovative
Categories in using ICT in Career Guidance
Source: Kettunen, J., Sampson,J.P., Jr. Vuorinene, R. (2014) Career Practitioners
Conceptions of Competency for Social Media in Career Services

10. University students -
Writing their thesis
or working in groups
Social forum for
students
People seeking CGC
Distant learning
students sit exams
online or in house
Íverksetarahúsið –
House of
Innovation – is in
the same house – a
very good
combination 
The municipality of
Klaksvík supports
Fjarnám with
facilities and wage
Who uses Fjarnám facilities

11. ICT tools in Guidance at
Fjarnám
• Homepage
www.iverksetan.fo/fjarnam
• E-mail: fjarnam@fjarnam.fo
• Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com
/fjarnam/ (Notices, ideas,
links, boost)
• Messenger: create contact,
ask and answer questions,
paste links and documents,
phone or video
• Skype: meetings online,
exams – sensor online,
attend group discussions
• Instagram
• Snapchat
• Tools used: Smart-phone,
PC, video equipment,
multifunction printer, good
ICT tools in distant learning at
Fjarnám
• Facebook
• Messenger
• Homepages – educations,
information, distant learning
• Intranet
• E-mail
• Skype
https://www.skype.com/en/
• Zoom https://zoom.us/
• Videofundir
https://www.framskak.fo/taenastu
r/videofundir/
• Tools used: Smart-phone, PC,
video equipment, multifunction
printer, good net-connection 

12. Three examples of distant learning studies
in 2018:
Ernæring og sundhed / Nutrition and Health
https://phabsalon.dk/
Musik og lyd design/ Music and Sound Design
http://mediehuset.du.se/mld/
Jura studier/ Law studies
https://setur.fo/utbugvingar/masterutbugvingar/ma-i-
loegfroedi/

13. CGC experience of using ICT at Fjarnám
Excellent tools for:
1.Establishing and providing contacts
2.Promoting and sending information
3.Motivating and assisting clients in
processing data
4.Increasing access to guidance
5.Conveniant
6.Anonimous
7.Cost-effective
But F2F guidance is still
very important and
necessary as
CGC is new to native
adults in the Faroe
Islands

14. References:
1. NVL, Netværk for voksenlæring www.nvl.org
2. ELGPN. (2018). From European Lifelong Guidance Policy Network:
http://www.elgpn.eu/
3. Ahlquist et al., (2010)
https://www.educationdevelopmenttrust.com/~/media/EDT/Repo
rts/Research/2010/r-skills-needed-connexions-personal-
advisers-full-2010.pdfand
4. https://www.educationdevelopmenttrust.com/~/media/EDT/Repo
rts/Research/2010/r-skills-needed-connexions-personal-
advisers-full-2010.pdf
5. Source: Kettunen, J., Sampson, J.P., Vuorinene, R. (2014) Career
Practitioners Conceptions of Competency for Social Media in
Career Services. British Journal for of Guidance & Counselling.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03069885.2014.939945
6. Kettunen, J., Vuorinen, R., &Sampson Jr., J.P. (2013) Career
practitioners’ conceptions of social media in career services.
British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 41, 301-317.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03069885.2013.781572
7. Fjarnám. (27. 04 2018).Distant Learning Centre - Fjarnám:
http://fjarnam.fo/
8. https://www.framskak.fo/taenastur/videofundir/
9. Corey, G. (2009). Theory and Practice of Counselling and
Psychotherapy. Belmont: BROOKS/COLE CENGAGE Learning.