1. B-learn seminar, Porto, 13.11.06 Best practice blended learning Presented by Bodil Ask

2. Development Management Master Degree  26 students from Uganda, Ghana, Ethiopia, Tanzania and Norway  Accreditation institution: Agder University College, Norway  120 ECTS – full time study  Started with a face-to-face session in Norway

3. Development Management  Face-to-face  to ensure adequate computer skills  provide students with first-hand experience and understanding of how the virtual classroom works  how to collaborate and negotiate meaning in a virtual classroom.  Quality assured study sites  Home universities in the participating countries set up study sites with access to Internet for their students  Students can meet peers at the local study site  Daily contact with the other students through the net  Cross cultural groups

4. Development Management  2nd face-to-face after 1 year 1.2 weeks intensive method course at University of Pretoria, South Africa 2.2 weeks field work in Pumalanga, South Africa, with 2 professors assisting in the field work 3.Back to their own local study site  Supervisor asynchronous during the last term while thesis writing

5. Comments from the students - 1  ”... study programme provides a holistic appraoach to acquiring knowledge about the problems that affect our planet and the ’living beings’ in it. The course contents are very relevant and useful. We ar using up-to date literature and e-learning methods.We are looking at the world from several perspectives, We are able to integrate these perspectives afterwards and focus in how ’develometal and environmental issues’ are deeply intertwined”

6. Comments from students - 2  ”… I think it was a good idea to take such an initiative in introducing the course most especially where Africans were made part of it. I really congratulate the organisers for taking such an initiative. The course content is very relevant because looking at development countries and their rate of development is a big step in addressing this issue and making the world a better place …”