Dino Karabeg
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Dino Karabeg began his career as a junior researcher in environmental systems modeling at the Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Zagreb. Following a doctorate in algorithm theory at the University of California and several university appointments in the USA and France, in 1992 he accepted an Associate Professor position at the University of Oslo's Institute for Informatics – and changed his interest to systemic innovation in knowledge work. From then on he has been developing building blocks and contours of an approach to information whose goal is not an ‘objective’ picture of reality, but to help us orient ourselves in the complex reality.
Several of Dino’s systemic prototypes are in education: Collaborology, developed in collaboration with GEFF as an evolving showcase, implements the agreed on desired characteristics of the education of the future, plus an additional one – it is internationally federated; that provides a number of advantages w.r.t. the common MOOCs. Earlier his FLEXPLEARN educational prototype, which was implemented as a 100-student Information Design course at the University of Oslo, already embodied the major desirable design patterns. Additionally it provided a technical solution (called the Domain Map Object) to the key emergent questions: If education should be need and interest-based and flexible – In what way shall the orientation (what to learn), the curriculum and the learning resources be organised and provided? What will the exams be like? The Movement and Qi course prototype answered another compendium of questions: If we should teach also through the body, what sorts of new knowledge might be taught? In what ways? How will this type of learning be made accessible and interesting to academic people?
Contact Details:
E-mail: dino@ifi.uio.no
Organisation:
Institute for Informatics,
University of Oslo,
POB 1080 Blindern,
0316 Oslo, Norway