First Day

Hi from finland,

Today we had interesting start-up of the study visit. Mrs. Anna Saharinen introduced the program and practical arrangements. Anna shared very valuable experience about e-learning practices. Most important issues for us were: to get detailed information and innovative ideas how to motivate our consumers, use Moodle platform and develop our e-learning programs, so we are eager to study as much as possible.  We also found some similarities between our and HAUS’s experience.  Mrs. Saharinen presented the first e-learning training that was- orientation program “Getting familiar with the state administration” very similar to what we created in the Academy’s e-learning website.

In recent years, technological development supported to create more diverse e-learning solutions.        E-learning needs new ways to effectively develop images, videos, texts and real life simulations in teaching process. We have to make effort to establish a self-direct learning culture.  We have to foresee that good e-learning consists of:  good quality of content and assessment, good quality learner’s support system. Careful and attractive design of online materials will motivate learners for deep and comprehensive e-learning.

At 13:00 we visited the School of Customs. Mrs.  Ritta Paalanen  and Mr. Matti Kakko presented Moodle based e-learning system of customs. They introduced the ways of e-learning development. Now they are in a process to hire full-time e-learning experts.  They are working on new version of Moodle, developing production of video-clips and are planning to train the trainers. Mrs. Paalanen presented the structure of the programs which they offer to their custom officers and showed very impressive studio where the video lessons are recorded. 

The first day of the study visit was very useful.