Hur kan digitala resurser stärka undervisningen vid distansutbildning i biologi?

Sammanfattning: Today more and more courses at both universities and at the municipal adult educations (Komvux) are given as distance courses. Therefore, the need for good digital resources is ever growing, to provide the same standard of education at the distance courses as it is on the regular courses. The following study is an investigation of some of the digital resources available for both aid in information intake and subject understanding, and also on the resources available for social interactions with other students as well as teachers during the courses. The study is conducted as a systematic literature study with a thematic analysis. The resources studied are LMS, virtual classrooms, the flipped classroom model and digital textbooks and libraries. Also, the importance of adaptive digital resources as well as how digital resources are best implemented are studied. Conclusions made shows that much can be improved in the distance courses and that a combination of flipped classroom presentations together with a program for social interactions (such as Edmodo) could be a better solution. For the parts of the courses in Biology where a more in depth understanding of processes is necessary, special model building programs would be favorable. Since the possibilities for individual adaptions is very limited in distance courses it would also be advantageous with adaptive digital resources, to increase the possibilities for a student to pass the course.