A School Facing a Network of Other Schools.

Author: Kynaeslahti, Heikki / Tella, Seppo
Published: Helsinki, 1997
Source: http://www.helsinki.fi [30.09.2003].

Abstract

This article deals with recent changes in the Finnish school system. It focuses particularly on distance education in inter-institutional electronic networks. There is a mutual electronic consortium consisting of four Finnish schools, two rural and two urban ones. The article describes how these schools interact with each other in this network.

Tella, Seppo

Seppo Tella, born in 1947, is Professor of Foreign Language Education at the University of Helsinki since 1997. Additionally, he directs the Media Education Centre and the Research Centre for Foreign Language Education. As a specialist in media education he has both led and participated in many European Union-based projects on media education, information and communication technologies and foreign language education.

Publications: "Aspects of Media Education: Strategic Imperatives in the Information Age" (ed.) 1998, "Teaching Through a Foreign Language: From Tool to Empowering Mediator" (co-ed.) 1999, "Media, Mediation, Time and Communication: Emphases in Network-Based Media Education" (ed.) 2000.