Simulations as a Part of the New E-Learning Export Strategy ...

The government will soon launch a new strategy to lead the way for Danish export in the billion league on the booming global market for e-learning. According to the weekly Mandag Morgen, the global market will in a few years be worth more than DKK 600 billion and experts say that e-learning will be the biggest revolution of the educational system in more than 100 years. Minister for Science, Innovation and Higher Education Morten ?stergaard sees an enormous potential in web-based course programs and is finalizing a new internationalization strategy for Danish education programs.

The Danish universities give the strategy a lukewarm reception with reference to the fact that the Danish languages constitutes a much smaller market than e.g. that of the American universities and that young students need the social and pedagogical setting that the physical presence provides. However, Hanne Leth Andersen from RUC points out that older and more goal-oriented students benefit from independent studies and that thereby, there is potential within further training. According to the Minister, an entry into the growing international education market shall be executed through ?preparation of courses where people can get the good product, that education in Denmark is, but in a way where they do not have to pull up their roots and move to a small country in a distant corner of the globe for a period of time.?

To this, online simulations present a solution. The simulations exist in various languages and student can play together without trouble even if they do not speak the same language. Milestone Competences has experience in conducting simulations with participants in up to three languages at a time. In those cases, the guiding communication is in English, which no longer can be said to be a foreign language in the Danish educational system: This year, CBS offers 22 Master?s programs in English and only 14 in Danish. At the very same CBS, a study showed that in courses taught with simulations, the students receive substantially higher grades and are more positive, motivated, and dedicated to the course. Thereby, simulations can be said to constitute the kind of alternative teaching methods that the Minister calls for.

Source: http://www.milestonecompetences.com/simulations-as-a-part-of-the-new-e-learning-export-strategy/

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