Academic Session ACA10
The Norwegian Virtual School: Data-Driven Real-Time Teaching. A New Teacher Role
Date Thursday, Dec 1 Time – RoomPotsdam I
How can a school system become more flexible and allow more individualised course programmes? How can we help educators to better utilise data to improve their teaching?
Learn from the experience of this governmental educational institution that innovated decision-making processes, the production of content, team training, virtual teaching and became users of a data-driven education platforms. Both successes and failures are shared, based on surveys and student- and teacher interviews.
Morten Oddvik
Educational Technology Stretegist, Nettskolen Vestfold, Norway
Morten Oddvik is an educator with 10 years teaching experience from lower- and upper secondary education in Norway, and with an expertise in educational technology. He has a Master in ESL and Collaborative Writing from NTNU, Trondheim. He was an early adopter of Google Apps in Education in lower secondary school at Birralee International School. For the past 5 years Oddvik has been responsible for building a virtual school in Vestfold municipality, which caters to high-achieving students in mathematics and foreign languages. This school is a municipal-owned initiative which provides immersive online courses. His job is to train, coordinate and support teachers and students. Morten Oddvik is a Microsoft Certified Educator, and Nettskolen Vestfold is a Microsoft Showcase School. Oddvik specializes in training teachers in didactical use of Office 365, sky-based collaboration and immersive teaching and utilization of flipped lectures in Campus Inkrement and Adobe Connect.
Links
http://vfk.no/Tema-og-tjenester/Utdanni…
Moderator
Nives Kreuh
Senior Consultant, E-learning, National Education Institute, Slovenia
Nives Kreuh is a Head of e-learning at the National Education Institute in Slovenia. She is doing the national research, strategy planning and implementation of new curricula through teacher continuous professional development in the field of digital pedagogy and e-learning.
She was leading the national E-competent teacher project in which they designed the standard of e-competent teacher, principle and ICT coordinators in schools framework called The Way towards E-competency. She focused on designing key e-competencies and developing the efficient training model called The Way towards E-competency, leading the instructional design and online courses (MOOCs) development for in-service teacher training and professional development to raise pedagogical digital literacy in schools nationwide.
She is the Head of Programme and Organising Committe of the international SIRikt* conference (*Enabling Education and Research with ICT), which is the largest educational conference in Slovenia with around 1000 delegates each year.
She also works internationally as the national expert and is the author of E-Competent Teacher, Principle and IT expert Framework and Designing E-Student Books Framework.