Engage learnersin remote locations

Olavur Ellefsen, CEO, SimprentisNordic Network for Adult Learning, 21 September 2011

About me

Olavur Ellefsen Founder and CEO of Simprentis Developed and delivered education

and training courses based on the OilSim learning simulation since 2002

MSc, Computer Science and Business Administration

Follow me: twitter.com/olavur Homepage: www.simprentis.com

How can you engage learners in remote

locations?

Suggestions...

Often the result is...

Even in the classroom...

All over the world...

How then do you engage people...

Our approach...

Take a map, a laptop,…..

some students,…..

and some innovation

Can you find the oil and gas?

Study the seismic

Bid for those licences

Spread the risk….

….partner with other companies

Where are you going to drill?

What rig do you need?

Which service companies will help?

Environmental impact?

Putting Energy Into Learning

Learning by doing….

Peer-to-peer learning

Interactive and fun….

…whilst intensive and challenging

Lots of learning outcomes

Sense of accomplishment…..

Team spirit

winning teams….

Process

Teach the teachers

Teachers teach the students

We train the Facilitators

…to facilitate the learning

Facilitator’s role

Introduce

Encourage and assist

Debrief

Individual

Delivery structure

Secondary Support

Primary Support

Facilitator

Participant

Participant

...

Facilitator

Participant

Participant

Facilitator

Participant

Participant

Delivery models

Many (30+) locationsCentral location800+ students

Combined

Big and small scale events

Key components

Computer-assisted Problem Based Learning Scripted synchronous learning

experience Team-oriented Facilitated

But does it work remotely?

Remote and alone...

No peers and no facilitator

Computer-assisted Problem Based Learning Scripted synchronous learning

experience Team-oriented ? Facilitated ?

Our experience is that very few participants succeed without the support of team mates and facilitators

Biggest challenges

Team oriented / Peer-to-peer learning

Facilitation

Remote teams and virtual teams

On location and virtual facilitation

Remote solutions

1. On-site facilitator2. Teams instead of sole participants3. Virtual teams4. Remote facilitators

1. Via text chat2. Via voice and video

5. Video introduction to each challenge

Or, rephrased

Using local educational centers to facilitate the learning process Schools, libraries

Emphasize and develop the pedagogical capabilities of the teachers Make them facilitators rather than

lecturers Deep subject matter experts are

available on the net on demand

Teacher role

The future of universities is to be

assessing and helping students organize what they know into meaningful packages

and then credential that learning