History of “MKFC is not only following the changes but making them” MKFC runs MKFC Stockholm Folkhögskola and MKFC Stockholm College MKFC is one of the members in the Swedish Popular Adult Education Movement. The state funds support this Democratic Education Movement and MKFC combines it with private College.

Since the year 2000 our public education profile has been based on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The private College carries out education on all levels to governments and organizations. Our education model gives us the freedom to design contents and methods from Primary School to University level and has supported our Action Learning processes in Developing countries.
MKFC is, as the first eLearning institute in Nordic Countries, the role model for this new paradigm and working today as expert in making existing educations to eLearning and Broker of Nordic eLearning to Europe and developing countries.
Broker Agents: Eritrea, Ghana, Iraq, Kenya, Kina, Palestine,UAE

End-to-End eLearning statements
MKFC is in the head of development of eLearning and designer of End-to-End eLearning ô for sustainable development and economic growth:
The relationship between eLearning and internationalization of education is needed:
* End-to-End eLearning ™ is an effective means to improve access to learning opportunities
* End-to-End eLearning ™ has an impact on the internationalization
* End-to-End eLearning ™ is supporting innovation processes
* End-to-End eLearning ™ contributing to personal development in a Lifelong Learning perspective
* End-to-End eLearning ™ is a facilitator of organizational change for companies, public administration and educational institutions

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Education for all As a friend of “Education for All” MKFC has offered learning possibilities worldwide since 2001. MKFC is continually developing the best practice with several partners within education and companies.

Learning objects are easy and cheap to produce for different needs and for different learning styles. Gender and local cultures are issues whitch the learnercentred and learner activating methodology manage well within e-Learning. MKFC is expert and used as the good example in practicing e-Learning in Scandinavian. MKFC has been
offering the whole education process from the preassessment to the certification on the e-Learningplatform since 2001.

eLearning related to channels

- Mobile phones as receiver / sender
- Memorycards
- USB memory
- Computer as receiver / sender
- Satellite downloads
- CD-rom with access to online courses
- CD-cource selfpace
- Online coursematerial before and after the course
- Educasting / Podcasting to IPods, MP3
- NetCommunities: Blogs, Wikis building up new knowledge on the net.

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Mobile devices have an significient role in e-Learning society:

- Giving access to information and knowledge every where
- Learners become active contributers not only passive recipients of learning objects
- Overcome “school-time and place” perspective and support learners perspective
- Low social entry barriers
- Give Internet access
- Reachable in the daily life
- Time effectiveness
- No travelling
- No need for a permanent power supply in rural areas
- Less impact of vandalism, theft, natural och political disasters
- Low installation costs and short pay back period
- Learning costs low
- Also a radio, tv, music player, camera and-videoreporter, calculator and messaging tool
stimulates different learning styles
- Natives in the digital world” get stimulating learningobjects they use to consume
- Using eLearning itself as local business in the local communities

e-Learning with Edusatellite
Edusatellites are one important link for the educational sector. Several satellites are
already working. They are configured for using audio-visual, multimedia, podcasts, educasts;
contents that mobilephones already uses.
The space segment for interactive eLearning exists and can be use.

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The content and methodology ultimately decide the succeess of using ICT as well as all education even in the face-to- face situations. Within the e-Learning the crucial add is how to “package” the e-Learning process both for the individual learner and for courses and the whole communities different needs.
Satellites meet the demand for an interactive delivered e-Learning system covering developing countries loaded with educational interactive payloads. Satellites establish the connectivity between international high quality institutions filling UN needs and reach the places that lack the necessary educational and ICT infrastructure.

Edusatellite Interactive Payloads

- e-Learning Teacher Training
- e-Learning Primary , Secondary School
- e-Learning Teacher Training in Primary , Secondary School
- e-Learning Technical and Vocational Training ( TVET )
- e-Learning College
- e-Learning Higher Education

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Since 2001 when MKFC moved all courses to our e-learning platform, the education costs have decreased to 25% compared to the costs of traditional learning. At the same time the quality has been better and the put through is now 95%.

Imagine when all education also is offered as e-learning and focus is on learning rather than buildings and administration; then our dream of Education for All is fullfilled!
Qualitycheck spring 2008 results