The Network on “Teaching problem based learning in virtual environments” – ScandEL is scheduled to run from November 2010 to October 2012. The network will focus on teachers work conditions and self-management in relation to two promising directions in the teaching of the future, namely self-regulated learning as in Problem Based Learning (PBL), and Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs). Both PBL and VLEs are instruments,which are most likely to have significant influence on the professional role of the teacher in the classrooms of the 21st century and in informal learning and teaching contexts empowered by social computing. Hence the network has a dual focus: empowerment of teachers and the integration of PBL practices in VLEs. The research will focus on the critical issues in, aspects of and problems with teaching in these formal and informal technology enhanced learning settings. This focus distinguishes the network from e.g. the Nordforsk funded research network Learning Ecosystems and Activities of the Future (http://www.nordicleaf.info/home) LEAF in 2009, which has its focus on curriculum research and Technology Enhanced Learning. Also where LEAF has mobile technologies as the “T” in TEL, the Teaching Problem Based Learning in Virtual Environments research network is broader in its scope on Technology Enhanced Learning by including web 2.0 services, VLEs, virtual 2/3D worlds like Second Life, while also including mobile technologies. Thus, the concept of VLEs covers a wide spectrum of ways in which various technologies are integrated to support fully online courses with off-campus students. But also as supporting on-campus students in the classroom, during project work or in connecting formal/informal spaces and the contexts of schools and home (e.g. including mobile technologies and social media).
Partners
- Aalborg University – Denmark
- Aarhus University – Denmark
- Danish School of Education – Aarhus University – Denmark
- Copenhagen Business School – Denmark
- Roskilde University – Denmark
- University of Southern Denmark – DK
- Oslo University – Norway
- Oulu University – Finland
- Jyväskylä University – Finland
- Gothenburg University – Sweden
- Umeaa University – Sweden
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