MAIKT-DCL Distributed Collaborative Learning Course description

Through work with the literature and the tasks, the student should learn to initiate and tutor collaborative learning processes for young and adult students. The tuition is in English if English speaking students attend the course.

No prerequisites required.

The course aims at encouraging critical journalism combined with analysis and debate regarding changing conditions for journalism due to digitalization, ownership structures and social media platforms' impact on the media industry. The course aims at deepening the knowledge about the changing conditions for news production, distribution and consumption brought forward by emerging technology, ownership structures and changes to revenue streams for funding of journalism.

In line with the course topic, the course is totally net based, and the work methods are highly collaborative. Active participation from all students is a necessity. The course requirements will ensure that the student acquires sufficient practical skills in using tools for collaboration as well as theoretical knowledge. It will also give the students a continuous workload during the semester.

The students are supposed to read the course literature on their own.

There are eight course work requirements, requiring different tools and levels of collaboration. The estimated workload for each requirement is approximately 2-4 hours. The course requirements must be approved before students call for examination.

Home exam: the students must write an individual report (2000-4000 words) on their performance of the activities carried out during the semester. This report, containing description and analysis of experiences, based on the course literature, will be the basis of the final assessment. 

New or postponed exam will be organised in the same way as the ordinary exam. A revised report can be submitted.

Examination support material is permitted.

No coursework requirements

An individual term paper of 12-15 pages. The term paper may be written in either English or Norwegian (or another Scandinavian language). Font and font size: Arial/Calibri 12 points. Line spacing: 1.5.