Processes and roles in remote online education

Problem oriented and project organized study methods are difficult to perform in a virtual remote online educational environment. University faculty, staff and students must play an active role to define, use and manage didactic, pedagogic, technological methods and tools to secure progress and quality in the learning process. Working in project groups in virtual rooms needs a tight management in terms of document handling, distributed task responsibilities, timing, communication, social ´glue´ etc. To increase learning, course work needs collaboration to discuss professional topics and problem solving. Staff must be trained in the facilitator role and be experienced in using tools for development and using the educational digital platform. This article is mainly focusing on processes, staff and student roles in project work, course work, collaborative activities and how to perform exams. The results after several years´ experiments are concluded as recommendations to students and institutional staff personal when entering the virtual online educational environment.