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Flexible Learning Strategies for

Higher Education

Antti Raike

University of Art and Design Helsinki

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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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Strategy: Where and how?

• “There and back again”

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Strategy for accessibility and flexibility of studies

• Overlapping strategies

Ministry of Education

Virtual University

University of Art and Design

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Proactive process

• Collaboration of stakeholders

Ministry of Education

Virtual University

University of Art and Design

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Expanding demand for flexibility in higher education

Ministry of Education

Virtual University

University of Art and Design

Information and Communication techology

ICT

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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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Challenge of Target Groups

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Activating communities of strategic practice

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Integrating NGO projects in flexible tuition

• StrategicStrategic collaboration collaboration

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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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Thank you!Thank you!