Presentation year: 2007

1. Flexible Learning Strategies
for
Higher Education
Antti Raike
University of Art and Design Helsinki
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2. Introduction
• Inclusion in UIAH tuition: Accessibility
and flexibility of CSCL in HE
• University for All strategy of UIAH:
links to Virtual University of Finland
and ESOK
• Accessibility is connected to flexibility
and both will be concretised in practise
with a cumulative feedback loop
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3. Strategy: Where and how?
• “There and back again”
?
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4. Strategy for accessibility and
flexibility of studies
• Overlapping strategies
Ministry of Education
University of Art and Design
Virtual University
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5. Proactive process
• Collaboration of stakeholders
Ministry of Education
University of Art and Design
Virtual University
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6. Expanding demand for flexibility
in higher education
ICT
Ministry of Education
University of Art and Design
Virtual University
Information and Communication techology
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7. World Campus
• Innovation University
• Integration of eLearning in educational
delivery and support processes
• Focus on the use of eLearning for
increasing access, for offering flexible
education and for income generation
• An extensive use of ICT and CSCL is
necessary to survive in the competitive
market of HE
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8. Challenge of Target Groups
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9. Activating communities of
strategic practice
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10. Integrating NGO projects in
flexible tuition
• Strategic collaboration
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11. Conclusions
• Strategic planning: an investment
• The administration begins the process with a clear
idea of the anticipated benefits
• The management is able to measure the results
• The staff will change the strategy into everyday
practice
• Flexible tuition is possible if all the actors or
stakeholders are included
• Flexibility is accessibility when all the stakeholders
form Communities of Practice contributing a
cumulative feedback loop of studies
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12. Thank you!
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