Online education provides flexible options that fit into busy modern lives in Northern Norway. It allows learning from anywhere using mobile devices or small computers. This includes: 1. Farmers who can listen to economics podcasts while working, to help address their financial challenges. 2. Taxi drivers who study for their license in small weekly "nano" portions while waiting for customers through a flexible online course. 3. Sami people in Nordic countries who can earn a degree in reindeer husbandry while working in the mountains, making tacit knowledge visible through project assignments and learning science relevant to their profession.

1. Online education
as part of
busy life
in the North
Flexible Education Norway
Torhild Slåtto
executive director

2. hundred years ago …

3. Ernst G. Mortensen went
to America to learn…
First course: Accounting

4. Technology: Online tools – many platforms
Students: Urban – rural, young – adults, on
travel – living abroad, Norwegian children
abroad etc. etc.
3 examples
on the tractor seat (iPod)
while waiting for customers (smart phone)
in the mountain cabin (mini computers)

5. 1. Being a
farmer
- a financial
challenge

6. Course in economics for
farmers:
Online, modulized
Podcasts
Assignments
Contact with online teacher
Opportunity:
Listen to podcasts while
plowing, harrowing or fertilizing

7. 2. The taxi driver who wants to
start her/his own taxi company
need a license

8. Provided by NKI
The course is chopped up in small pieces
The taxi driver receives small «nano» portions
every week
Studies while waiting for customers (– or at
home – cafe – library)
Reading, assignments, questions, communicati
on with teacher, testing
Getting prepared for exam – passing exam
Result: License for taxi business
«Nano learning»

9. 3. Theory and practice for the
Nordic Sami people

10. Work in the
mountains
+
part time
education

11. BA in reindeer husbandry – opportunity to
study their own profession
Study while looking after the reindeer
herd in the mountains
Making tacit knowledge visible (project
assignments)
Learning from science
(ecology, meteorology, biology, geology
etc.)
Sami University, Kautokeino

12. What will happen
education – technology
in the next
100
years?