This project, run in cooperation with Save the Children Norway and the National Crime Squad, is part of the Department of Computer Science use of “blended learning”, where the access to blogs, youtube, podcast, LMS and Facebook together with real tasks is meant to create an environment for intrinsically motivated learning.

Using true projects as tools, students get a “real” world orientation and their work suddenly gets a value beyond just the demonstrated competence of the pupil. The project has given the students a unique opportunity to get involved emotionally and practically in the field of Social Informatics. The Computer Science students have provided both Save the Children and the National Criminal Investigation Service with reports on various topics such as secure chat, camera phones and possible abuse, etc. This exceptional cooperation between higher education and public and private organizations makes the project not only unique, but might also be a major factor to boost the willingness of students to learn Social Informatics and improve their skills in the various topics of the subject.

In an increasingly globalized world, we should also strive to make both Computer and Teacher education more global, with global ethical themes (Kirkwood, 2001) that are recognizable and relevant both nationally and internationally. To fight sexual abuse of children in digital media using project based teaching in relevant fields of education, is just such an example of a global ethical theme.

Nesna University College is the only Computer Science education in the world which has sexual abuse of children as the main topic on the Computer Science curriculum.