Currently the islands population decreases. On a daily basis, many commute to the main land for work and study. Youngsters never learn to live on the island, since their main activities happen elsewhere. Rumours say that in a few years the last secondary school will close. At the same time, there is a societal trend towards distance working and online learning enabled by ICT technologies. Imagine that all knowledge needed for a sustainable island can be learned, produced and gathered from the island; that social life of all generations will take place on the island again. To become 100% self-sufficient, how can the system for life-long learning at the island look like?
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Support local products with international innovation
TexLabs is a non-profit organisation that supports innovative innitatives at Texel to stimulate local knowledge development and the… -
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Knowledge x Skills
Initiators Pepijn and Vivianne brought together the municipality, the secondary school, and entrepreneurs at Texel to widen and improve the… -
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Interviews teach your own
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Samsø Højskole
How is highschool education in Samso?Reference: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/30/world/europe/30samso.html?_r=0 In the bookshop opposite Ms. Nauntoft’s appliance store, Liselotte Andersen, 50, a sales clerk, said “it became natural for us” to embrace the energy project. The project was also crucial, she said, to provide islanders a sense of purpose, and jobs. The island has no high schools, so older children leave for boarding… -
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FeedbackFruits
Start-up at YES!Delft which develops software to improve interaction between students and teachershttp://www.yesdelft.nl/DetailsCompany/CompanyID/100 https://secure.feedbackfruits.com/ -
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Education for remote islands
How is education on remote islands organised?
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Soren Hermansen from Samso
Nordic Network for Adult Learning & European Lifelong Learning MagazineI am an old friend of texel and some years ago i visited texel a number of times. I worked with Texel energy and before that i worked with Stiftung durzaam texel (sorry about my dutch). We do focus a lot on education too. We are working on a nordic program for sustainable education - see the webside http://energiakademiet.dk/9713/english-piloting-nordic-sustainability -
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Field research at Texel
Our field research at Texel had two parts. First, we had an interview with Pepjin and Viviane from Kennis & Kunde Tx. Second, we went to…