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Cooperative freedom andtransparency in online educationExamples and experiences from the Nordic open online Academy (NooA)and its implementation of multilingualand flexible online education in Moodle.
Professor Morten Flate Paulsenwww.NooA.no
A 30-minute presentation at the 2nd NORDEFCO ADL Conference Gol, Norway. May 14, 2014
http://twitter.com/MFPaulsen www.slideshare.net/MortenFPhttp://nettstudier.blogspot.com http://issuu.com/mfpaulsen
www.linkedin.com/in/mfpaulsenwww.facebook.com/mfpaulsen www.eden-online.org/blog/
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Abstract
Campus NooA was established and accredited as a Norwegian online school by the Ministry of Education and Research in 2012. NooA’s aim is to become an international centre for online courses and programs. So far, NooA offers 50 online courses in Norwegian, English, Swedish and Danish. The courses are offered through the multilingual, open source, learning platform Moodle. All courses are completely online and based on the Theory of Cooperative Freedom and Transparency in Online Education. The presentation focuses on how Campus NooA implements the theory and on the entrepreneurial experiences from the development of a private, Nordic open online Academy.
About me
• Established Campus NooA in 2012• Professor II at Sør-Trøndelag University College• Worked with online education at NKI Nettstudier 1986 – 2012• President of EDEN European Distance and E-learning Network
(2010-2013)• Doctor of Education from the Pennsylvania State University• American Center for the Study of Distance Education (1990 -1992)• Adjunct Professor Athabasca University (1999 - 2005)• Professor associado Universidade Aberta, Portugal (2009-2010)
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Developing Campus NooA the Nordic open online Academy
Aim: to build an international learning mall that helps organizations and educators to provide quality online courses and online students to learn any time anywhere.
Needs:• An online learning theory• A lean and flexible organization• A learning platform• Course development• Marketing
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The most interesting pedagogical challenge in our lifetime is to provide online education that combines individual freedom with meaningful cooperation.I have struggled with this challenge since I first introduced my Theory of Cooperative Freedom in 1992.
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Six Dimensions of Freedom
It is difficult to combine individual flexibility and cooperation
Compilation of resources made by my students atUniversidade Aberta in Portugal http://ppel4.pbworks.com/
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More resources on Cooperative Freedom and Transparency in Online Education
• Cooperative online educationhttp://www.slideshare.net/MortenFP/cooperative-freedom-6137952
• Online education barometers www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyoe7dGIwkE&feature=relmfu
• Transparency in Cooperative Online Education www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/671/1267
• E-viva em Portugal http://nettstudier.blogspot.com/• Cooperative Online Education
http://seminar.net/index.php/volume-4-issue-2-2008-previousissuesmeny-124/100-cooperative-online-education
• Cooperative Freedom and Transparency in Online Educationwww.slideshare.net/MortenFP/futuralia-3400339
• Visualizing student profileswww.slideshare.net/MortenFP/visualizing-student-profiles-through-nkis-online-catalogue-and-student-network
• Transparency for Cooperationhttp://toonlet.com/archive?m=s&i=11245
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Individual paceing
Collectivepaceing
Individual start-upCollective start-up
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Organisation
Executive board
Advisory board
Quality board
Language area
partners
Student commission
Content providers
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Learning Management system
Moodle 2.6• Dynamic adaption of
screen-size to:• PC• Tablet• Smartphone
• Badges
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NooA ismultilingual
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Develop courses with partners
E-train
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Ten reasons for delivering yourcourses with Campus NooA
1. You don’t need to pay for development of your online courses2. NooA handles marketing, quality assurance, administration, operation and
student support3. You don’t need to cancel courses with few participants4. Recruit more participants from a larger geographical area, and additional
people with flexible start-up and progression. 5. Reduce travel, subsistence and hotel costs6. Distribute course content quicker and cheaper7. Reach the market swifter with new products and services8. Increase sales, use e-learning as a competitive advantage and value added
service9. Develop better relations with members, costumers and suppliers10. Achieve higher competence and better cooperation through collaboration
with NooA
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Assignment examplesfrom Writing course I
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NooA uses Moodle to supportCooperative Freedom and Transparency
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The Mall:Free tidbits of some of our courses
The Student Certificate is provided for free to all our students
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Online marketing
Facebook: www.facebook.com/CampusNooa Blogger: campusnooa.blogspot.no/ Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/company/campus-nooa Issuu: issuu.com/campusnooa Slideshare: www.slideshare.net/CampusNooA YouTube: www.youtube.com/campusnooa Instagram: http://statigr.am/campusnooa
Twitter: twitter.com/CampusNooA twitter.com/NooAsamfunnsfag twitter.com/NooAmatematikk
Thank youThe presentation is available at
www.slideshare.net/MortenFP
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www.NooA.no