1 Experience-Based Faculty Development Seminars Beck, Eevi E. (D.Phil.) Faculty Development group, Education Research Institute, Univ. of Oslo, Norway. Email: eevi@ped.uio.no Hatlevik, Ove E. (Dr.Polit.) Faculty Development group, Education Research Institute, Univ. of Oslo, Norway. Email: o.e.hatlevik@ped.uio.no Stokke, Mona H. (Cand.Paed.) Educational Technology Group, USIT, Univ. of Oslo, Norway. Email: m.h.stokke@usit.uio.no Conference theme: 2. Promoting Educational Quality. (Sub-theme: Faculty training.) Conference category: ii. University education Abstract As part of a 5-year effort to stimulate members of faculty to develop flexible learning through special funding, seminars were held with participating faculty. The paper presents the seminars and outlines the underlying theoretical perspectives. Faculty came to the seminar having answered four questions to stimulate their prior reflection. At the seminar they were organised in groups based on similarity of project topics. Each group was provided with an online, portable pc. Group members presented to each other their project and their answers to the four questions. Then the group developed responses to two of these questions. These were to provide advice to other faculty considering starting with flexible learning initiatives, and what the consequences of their own experiences were for their further teaching. The responses were published on the flexible learning web site. The seminars innovatively combined several purposes: Stimulating faculty to reflect on their experiences with developing their teaching; sharing among faculty; provide accountability of project activity; and engaging faculty in reflection and reporting within a limited time frame. Experience based reflection seems to have succeeded in combining these purposes. The published experiences are now part of the resources on flexible learning which are openly available. The paper discusses the theory-based thinking behind the design of the seminars, as well as presenting the design itself.