Design and Delivery of Quality Study Programs for Adult Part Time Students in Scandinavian Universities

Annette Lorentsen

Design and Delivery of Quality Study Programs for Adult Part Time Students in Scandinavian Universities

Annette Lorentsen

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The transformation of universities from being educators of primarily young people before their entrance into the job market to modern educational institutions with a multitude of educational offers for diverse target groups must be built on knowledge and leadership in order to succeed (Jarvis 1995). Using Scandinavian universities as examples this paper wants to analyse and discuss what kind of knowledge universities need to design and deliver appropriate study programs for different groups of adult part time students.

Having analyzed and evaluated existing knowledge in the field a new collection of empirical data on the adult learner in Scandinavian university study programs will be presented, analysed and discussed. This data collection has taken place in 2005-2006 in parallel in Norway, Sweden and Denmark by a research network supported by the Norwegian Netuniversity (Grepperud et el. 2006) .

Themes which will be introduced are how adult students experience combining everyday life, job obligations and academic study programs at university level, and how study programs should be designed and delivered to make such a combination as successful as possible. Different kinds of flexibility (Collis & Moonen 2001) related to structure, contents etc. will be analysed as concepts targeting the challenge of diversity which adult learners represent Lorentsen 2004).

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Nordic Perspectives of Lifelong Learning in the New Europe : NERA's 35th Congress : Abstracts
Number of pages	1
Publisher	Faculty of Education, University of Turku
Publication date	2007
Pages	14-14
Publication status	Published - 2007
Event	Nordic Perspectives of Lifelong Learning in the New Europe : NERA Congress - Turku, Finland Duration: 15 Mar 2007 → 17 Mar 2007 Conference number: 35

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Conference	Nordic Perspectives of Lifelong Learning in the New Europe : NERA Congress
Number	35
Country/Territory	Finland
City	Turku
Period	15/03/2007 → 17/03/2007

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Lorentsen, A 2007, Design and Delivery of Quality Study Programs for Adult Part Time Students in Scandinavian Universities. in Nordic Perspectives of Lifelong Learning in the New Europe: NERA's 35th Congress : Abstracts. Faculty of Education, University of Turku, pp. 14-14, Nordic Perspectives of Lifelong Learning in the New Europe : NERA Congress, Turku, Finland, 15/03/2007. <http://congress.utu.fi/nera07/NERA_ABSTRACT%20BOOK.pdf>

Design and Delivery of Quality Study Programs for Adult Part Time Students in Scandinavian Universities. / Lorentsen, Annette.
Nordic Perspectives of Lifelong Learning in the New Europe: NERA's 35th Congress : Abstracts. Faculty of Education, University of Turku, 2007. p. 14-14.

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