Didactic Changes in Distance Education in Master of Industrial Information Technology (MII)

Since 1999 the didactic used in Master of Industrial Information technology (MII) e-learning education has been a transformation of the on-campus project organised problem based learning (POPBL). Many attempts to improve factors such as discussions, individual and group reflections during the course of study, which are fully integrated in on-campus PBL, have to some extent failed when working virtually over the Internet. As POPBL still is believed to be the best learning method the start up in 2003 for the e-learning students has been changed to improve individual and group reflections, and it was hoped that the learning would be improved as well. This paper describes the experiences from the first part of the basis semester, the Pilot Project period, and it is documented that some improvements are achieved