Case Otavan Opisto, av Taru Kekkonen, ansvarig för e-utbildningen vid Otavan opisto samt medlem i NVL:s distansnätverk på seminariet Nya vindar för Vägledning, 15 september 2016 i Mariehamn

1. Guidance Online
case Otava
Nya vindar för vägledning
Mariehamn 15.9.2016

2. Otava Folkhögskola
established 1892
online since 1997
Online Upper Secondary School for Adults
Online Comprehensive School for Adults

4. Photo:
Jere Lauha

5. students
Travelling at
work
Parents with
small kids at
home

6. guidance
Photo: Jere Lauha

7. (online) presence
Photo: www.geograph.org.uk/photo/875991

9. guidance begins on the web site…

10. and continues in
various channels

12. Anna’s story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGnv8-nPWG4

13. extrovert introvert
• energy outwards
• thinks aloud
• reacts quickly
• active in interaction
• energy inwards
• forms an opinion
before expresses
anything aloud
• reacts slowly
• passive in interaction

14. Contextual/situational silence
Photo: http://www.pdpics.com/photo/2547-silence/

15. How to identify what kind of
guidance each student needs?
Making a deal with the student at the beginning
Asking right questions
Background information through networks e.g.
workshop coaches, outreach youth workers,
social workers, parents
Reading between the lines
Learning logs
Data from the learning platform
But what about those who simply disappear - ?

16. In learning logs
at least part of
the invisible
becomes visible

17. learning platforms

18. learning analytics
Photo:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/4371000486

19. flagging

20. peer support
the feeling of belonging is sometimes enough
Photo:
http://hinoai.deviantart.com/art/Reading-
Back-to-Back-428043643

22. Happy end
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmvMR6Y7Nes

23. Thank you!
Taru Kekkonen
taru.kekkonen@otavanopisto.fi
+358 44 794 3517