Mariann Løkse, head of Library Services, and Øystein Lund, head of the Resource Center for Teaching, Learning and Techology at UiT The Arctic University of Norway discuss library support for open education. They share their thoughts on online education in general and during a period of COVID-19 lockdown in particular. They talk us through information literacy, MOOCs, learning outcomes from online courses as compared to traditional classroom lectures, and a range of other aspects of open education.
During the discussion, the following web services and online documents are mentioned: iKomp (a MOOC on information literacy, in Norwegian and English); https://www.sevuppt.no/ (a MOOC on pedagogical supervision, in Norwegian); https://doi.org/10.7557/15.5501 (Mariann Løkse's contribution to a collection of articles dedicated to Stein Høydalsvik on his retirement, in Norwegian); https://hdl.handle.net/10037/3823 (the doctoral thesis of Øystein Lund, in Norwegian).
First published online June 25, 2020.
This special issue of The Nordic Journal of Information Literacy in Higher Education (NORIL) is in its entirety dedicated to the 2021 edition of the conference Creating Knowledge. The conference is international but has its main audience in the Nordic countries. It is bi-or triennial and is hosted by the Nordic countries in turn. In 2020, the conference was originally set to take place in Tromsø, Norway, but as we all know, the Covid-19 pandemic put an end to physical conferences for quite some time. As hosts from UiT The Arctic University of Norway we first decided to postpone the conference for a year, but in the end had to make the difficult decision of changing it into an all-online conference.
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