Small Private Offline Courses in prison

Sweden is a true pioneer in matters of education in a prison environment and since 1842 has obliged all inmates aged under 35 to take part in educational activities (Comprehensive School Statue). Since 2007resource centres (CDR) have appeared in Swedish prisons. Resource centres are " a group of teaching, management, information and human resources elements which encourage the implementation of a system for the circulation of information that is as open as possible. The layout and the content are structured according to the needs of the end users and the trainers." (Definition from the CEDIP - Centre for Evaluation, Documentation, and Pedagogical Innovations).

There are sixty-one prisons in Sweden and each one has a CDR within which are six teachers hired by the prison. They can create courses and give them or else tutor another teacher's course. These teachers act as proper tutors to the detainees so they are not left to their own devices during their learning. Each prison lets all prisoners free access to a platform which offers 140 classes devised by teachers. The levels and the content material available on the platform are varied as are the subject matters. On this same platform the teachers give cornual classes, upload files that are free access for the imprisoned students. Moreover, it is also possible on this platform to communicate using the intranet messaging service. However, while the intranet is free access, the inmates cannot use internet without supervisions.

When a prisoner is transferred to another prison, he or she can continue to enjoy free access to his or her courses.