Re-thinking sustainable education systems in Iceland: The Net-University project

The recent economic crisis in Iceland has raised issues of the sustainability of Icelandic Higher Education to new levels of importance. The Net-University Project was an EU Leonardo-funded initiative to focus on the transfer of innovation in continuing university education. The partners concentrate...

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Autores principales:	Frank Rennie, Sigurbjörg Jóhannesdóttir, Stefania Kristinsdottir
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Lenguaje:	EN
Publicado:	Athabasca University Press 2011
Materias:	Distance education Open Educational Resources Knowledge transfer Special aspects of education LC8-6691
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/fad4bb889d034ea2951f71b4261e3162
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:fad4bb889d034ea2951f71b4261e31622021-12-02T18:03:25ZRe-thinking sustainable education systems in Iceland: The Net-University project10.19173/irrodl.v12i4.8711492-3831https://doaj.org/article/fad4bb889d034ea2951f71b4261e31622011-05-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/871https://doaj.org/toc/1492-3831The recent economic crisis in Iceland has raised issues of the sustainability of Icelandic Higher Education to new levels of importance. The Net-University Project was an EU Leonardo-funded initiative to focus on the transfer of innovation in continuing university education. The partners concentrated on how knowledge and experience about distributed and distance learning models could be transferred between the partner countries, and how such models can be integrated into the education system to better support higher education and life-long learning. There was a particular interest in the practical use of Open Educational Resources for course design, and the sharing of these course modules across university partners. Some good practice and lessons from OER use in course design are listed.Frank RennieSigurbjörg JóhannesdóttirStefania KristinsdottirAthabasca University PressarticleDistance educationOpen Educational ResourcesKnowledge transferSpecial aspects of educationLC8-6691ENInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, Vol 12, Iss 4 (2011)
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description	The recent economic crisis in Iceland has raised issues of the sustainability of Icelandic Higher Education to new levels of importance. The Net-University Project was an EU Leonardo-funded initiative to focus on the transfer of innovation in continuing university education. The partners concentrated on how knowledge and experience about distributed and distance learning models could be transferred between the partner countries, and how such models can be integrated into the education system to better support higher education and life-long learning. There was a particular interest in the practical use of Open Educational Resources for course design, and the sharing of these course modules across university partners. Some good practice and lessons from OER use in course design are listed.
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title	Re-thinking sustainable education systems in Iceland: The Net-University project
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title_full	Re-thinking sustainable education systems in Iceland: The Net-University project
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Re-thinking sustainable education systems in Iceland: The Net-University project

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