1. ONLINE COURSE FOR DEVELOPING PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCIES - about presence in learning environments
Safegaurding children and young peple in residential and fostercare
Closing conference
Bente Møller- Jensen og Gitte Riis Hansen

2. This workshop……
will focus on crucial considerations when choosing an online format for education
1. how to understand “presence in learning environments”.
no teacher to facilitate the learning process, the didactical considerations has to be taken beforehand. 
2. Concrete didactical considerations
3. The need of a development of new competencies in a sensitive field, subject to taboos and prejudice.

3. PROGRAM
PRESENTATION What triggered your interest for this workshop?
PERSPEKTIVES ON PRESENCE
DIDACTICS
APPROACHING A SENSITIVE MATTER (graphics)
In this presentation, the structure of the online course will be demonstrated and will be related to didactical considerations and reflections.
Depending on the participants, the content of one of the modules will be shown, starting with a short introduction movie based on situations from practice.

4. Materials for education and inspiration
PRESENTATION
RESEARCH
1.a review of available materials (e.g. training programs, guidelines and tools)
2.expert interviews 3.focus groups with professionals working in residential or foster care
DATABASE
Materials for education and inspiration
SUMMER SCHOOL
For students
ONLINE COURSE
For professionals
CONFERENCE
The final results, obtained goals and the future plans for the project will be presented.

5. WHY AN ONLINE COURSE?
To reach as many professionals as possible with the knowlegde, tools and pedagogic methods
To address a sensitive subject in need of attention
To facilitate the development of competencies for social workers
An online course give the professionals the option:
To work with the course as a team
To fit the course into the work-plans / schedules of meetings
To develop pedagogical methods and orginazational structures TOGETHER
The modules all ends with the THINK – PLAN –ACT wich can be used ind the organizational process of developing and changing methods

6. PEDAGOGICAL ISSUES – about presence
No teacher or facilitator present while the professionals are attending the course and developing competencies.
Thus, our didactical approach has been situated in the framework and idea of “presence” and the course has been created focusing three presences:
Social Presence: teambased work -
Teaching Presence: MANUAL, reflection templates, re-appearance
Cognitive Presence: .eg THINK – PLAN - ACT
(Insp. D. Randy Garrison)

7. DIDACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS
Creating an online open international course for professionals needs profound and thorough didactic attention.
In the reflections and planning of teaching design that fits the online learning environment, we had to consider especially three overall aspects:
CULTURAL AND INSTITUTIONAL ASPECTS
DIDACTICAL E-LEARNING ASPECTS
GRAPHICAL ASPECTS
DIDACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS

8. Cultural and institutional aspects
The online course is an international learning instrument for developing attention and competencies working with a subject that has very different approaches in different countries and pedagogical environments.
In some pedagogical and social environments, the subject of healthy sexual development has a lot of attention – in some environments it is considered more or less as a taboo. In addition to that, the cultures and methods in pedagogical and social work differ from one country to country.
The institutional level consist of a variety of approaches on how to integrate conventions and international law in the welfare task in order to live up to the responsibility of safeguarding children and young people

9. DIDACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS
SEE – THINK – ACT
SEE / READ: Case: a boy a girl, module 3, sexual identity
THINK: Is this a task for social institutions in your country?
Think for 2 min – write your thoughts on a card –
Reflect with the person sitting next to you for 7 min.
ACT: the first step for a plan of action as the result of your reflection

10. DIDACTICAL E-LEARNING ASPECTS
SEE THINK ACT
CONCEPT
CONTENT
SEE (KNOWLEDGE)
Information
Statements
Knowledge check
Casestudies
Library
Videos
Films
THINK (ATTITUDE)
Exercises: cases, reflections, diskussions
ACT (CHANGE)
Cases
Plans of action

11. GRAPHICAL ASPECTS
The online course is first a visual learning element; the graphics (pictures, colors, design) will be a part of “teaching presence” and have a strong impact of the learners´ approach and sense making. The online course has been developed with a strong attention to the graphical design
We had a lot of considerations about the choice of colors, pictures and design on a subject as sensitive as this.
SEE: Modul 2 Show
THINK: what is your reactions to the colors and graphics?

12. Dilemmas developing competencies online
Being introduced to the online-course please give us your reflections on the dilemmas as you see them .
Good things
Challenges

13. How to acces the online-course
The link will be accessable on the project website by the end of august.
But we would like to send the link to you when it´s ready
Please write your name on the list
Or send us a mail: Gitte Riis Hansen: Bente Møller-Jensen

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