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To slow down the spread of Covid19, schools and learning providers close their doors. Now, they ask their teachers to move classes online. What advice can we give those who are making their first experiments with teaching on the internet? Norsk Nettskole shares some of its experiences after 20 years of working with teachers to adapt education to web-based and web-supported learning.

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MICRO LESSON AND FERTILIZER

 Online learning continuously presents us with new possibilities.
What is currently sweeping over us are two new terms: micro lessons and nano learning.
What this has to do with fertilizer you may need to be a farmer to understand. On the bags, it says “granulated fertilizer”.
This means that instead of just a fine dust, like it used to be, this fertilizer is gathered in granules- Each granule has a functional size, and contain each of the ingredients necessary to ensure optimized growth.
When talking about distance learning, we also use the term ‘granulated’ quite a lot these days.

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Nanolearning

Pedit is a tool that can be used also for nanolearning. 

A quick search online will show you that these terms are used about a broad variety of techniques and methods. As always, someone has registered them with .com, and made the terms “theirs” with a very narrow definition. Often combined with a software product they’re selling. 
The terms “micro lesson” and “nano learning” are often used interchangeably. But in Norsk Nettskole, we’ve chosen to use “Micro lesson” to mean the format we use when we’re facilitating “nano learning.”

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Spirited or despirited?
In a book called The good teacher in life and poetry, Norwegian author and lecturer Inge Eidsvåg writes about his pedagogy teacher, Halvard.
One thing Halvard found important was the concept of begeistring - Norwegian a term that can be loosely translated to enthusiasm.
“To begeistre,” he would say, “comes from the German word begeistern, meaning ‘to give spirit’. To teach means to give a subject spirit. It won’t help to know every single fact about a topic or field if the students can’t sense a nerve behind your knowledge, an engagement.” In English, the word enthusiasm has a similar origin, meaning filled with divine inspiration – given spirit.

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