Pedagogical development project funds granted

I am involved (though not in a major role) in a pedagogical development project which has received 125.000 NOK in funding from the University of Stavanger´s Faculty of social sciences, titled "Digitale verktøy i internasjonale masterprogram" (Digital tools in international master programs), headed by Siv Oltedal. My involvement is related to my involvement in the NORPART project "Cuban and Nordic Welfare".

Second work day in Havana

Today, during our visit to Havana, we have discussed the format of e-compendiums, met with the first secretary at Norway´s embassy in Cuba, and visited a communitarian project in Old Havana. We also met the Dean at University of Havana.

Two meetings and a seminar

On Monday this week I attended my first ever Vice-Dean for Research meeting, with the UiS Director of Research Troels Jakobsen. On Tuesday I attended the leadership group meeting at Faculty of social sciences, and a half-day seminar on making e-compensiums held by the NORPART project "Cuban and Nordic welfare".

Last 4 e-compendiums in introductory philosophy revised

The last three weeks or so I have finished revising the remaining four e-compendiums in the introductory philosophy course Examen Philosophicum for nursing students at University of Stavanger's Department of health studies (course code BSNEXP).

Overview of all 12:

Hva er etikk? [What is ethics?] 

Omsorgsetikk og kjønn [Ethics of care and gender]  

Eksistensialisme [Existentialism]

Rasjonalisme [Rationalism]

Empirisme [Empiricism]

Kants erkjennelsesteori [Kant's epistemological theory] 

Hva er vitenskap? [What is science?]

Vitenskapens sosiale dimensjon [The social dimension of science]

Hermeneutikk* [Hermeneutics]

Pliktetikk* [Deontology]

Dydsetikk* [Virtue ethics] 

Konsekvensetikk* [Consequentialism]

 * revised the last few weeks.

All 12 compendiums were originally written by Ingunn Sira Myhre. When produced as interactive PDFs most of the compendiums are 10+ pages.

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Eight e-compendiums in introductory philosophy revised; four of these produced

Eight e-compendiums in introductory philosophy revised; four of these produced

This Spring and Autumn I have been in the process of revising 12 e-compendiums which are used in the web-based bachelor in nursing at Department of health studies (UiS), specifically in the course in introductory philosophy Examen Philosophicum (course code BSNEXP). I revised three compendiums this Spring and so far a further five compendiums this Autumn. The original text is written by Ingunn Sira Myhre.

Four of these have now been produced by NettOp, the University of Stavanger's unit for digital learning materials:

• Eksistensialisme [Existentialism], 16 pp 
• Erkjennelsesteori: Empirisme [Epistemology - Empiricism], 15 pp
• Erkjennelsesteori: Rasjonalisme [Epistemology - Rationalism], 13 pp
• Hva er etikk? [What is ethics?], 7 pp

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Plan for revision of e-compendiums (February 2013)

Two e-compendiums in introductory philosophy revised

This weekend I started executing my plan for revising 12 e-compendiums used in University of Stavanger's web-based bachelor in nursing, by revising the two first e-compendiums, titled "Hva er etikk?" [What is ethics?] and "Omsorgsetikk og kjønn" [Ethics of care and gender].

Plan for revision of e-compendiums

The internet-based bachelor in nursing at University of Stavanger's Department of Health Studies is making use of e-compendiums - PDF files that can talk (sic) and have have other interactive qualities. As responsible for Examen philosophicum (BSNEXP), the course in introductory philosophy, I am also responsible for an ongoing revision of these e-compendiums, which in my course number 12 and some 100 pages altogether. Yesterday I outlined a plan for this revision, which will take place over the next three weeks and be concluded by February 24th. I will keep all thematic e-compendiums and not add any, and focus on revising language (rather than content) and on adding some more interactive elements. The e-compendiums have originally been written and composed by Ingunn Sira Myhre.