1. Teachers new role in web-based teaching and national co-operation in Finnish Virtual Polytechnic Finnish Virtual Polytechnic Annika Michelson annika.michelson@amk.fi

16. Internet shopping and planning

17. Books and music

18. Internet banks

19. Multimedia computers, phones, video, GPS, WirelessLAN

20. Electronic services

21. eCitizen and eVoting in Estonia http://www.eesti.ee

22. eSchool in Estonia http://www.ekool.ee

24. Online discussions

25. Internet telephone

26. Educational environments R5 Generation

27. Blogs

28. Wikipedia http://www.wikipedia.org

29. Open Sources – cross-platforms Marratech http://www.marratech.com/ Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional (Breeze) http://www.adobe.com/products/breeze/index.html Webex http://www.webex.com/ Dimdim http://www.dimdim.com/

30.  A national network co-operation organization formed by all (29) Finnish polytechnics joined in one portal - www.amk.fiwww.amk.fi  At the Finnish Virtual Polytechnic portal you can find courses offered by the polytechnics.  The flexible study right means that you can choose courses from any polytechnic.  Since 2001, about 1000 people have participated in the production team work.  In the project ESF 2004-2006 more than 300 producers, 50 coordinators, 8 area coordinators, 15 web designers and a lot of polytechnic’s own support staff participated. Finnish Virtual Polytechnic

31. Production teams at their best…

32. ...learned to know eLearning pedagogics and learning objects!

33. I do not understand what a learning object is! Look what a nice learning object I did – Pasi helped me!...learned to plan learning objects

34. ....learned to know the world of informatics! Is this the first or the second pedagocical function...? What does metadata mean and why do we need it?

35. ...learned to observe courses from eLearning point of view! Is the pedagogical soloution good? Is the visual image good?

36. eProduction environment TeamSpeak Skype Dyngate …learned to use new tools

37. …were angry! Members of our team were not ready to use web-based tools DOES NOT FUNCTION, TOO SLOW NOT LOGICAL!

38. ... were happy! What a good learning object! I have done this! The students liked it!

39. ...from giving lectures to be a supervisor guiding students The information flow is huge It is easier and faster to get help It is easier to do group work Online supervision and guiding is connected to real time as is a normal classroom lecture – no change there!

40. The importance of networks, especially open networks, is growing...