A 30-minute presentation about Campus NooA uses Moodle to achive cooperative freedom and transparency in Online education

1. Cooperative Freedom
and Transparency in Moodle www.NooA.no
Morten Flate Paulsen
Campus.NooA.no
A 30-minute presentation at Gjøvik University College
April 3, 2013
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2. About me
• Worked with online education at NKI Nettstudier 1986 – 2012
• Established Campus NooA in 2012
• Professor II at Gjøvik University College
• President of European Distance and E-learning Network (EDEN)
• 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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3. EDEN-members in Norway
Norwegian member institutions
• Campus NooA • Norwegian Association for
• eCademy Distance and Flexible Education
• Folkeuniversitetet Nettstudier - NADE
• Gjovik University College • Norwegian Institute for Adult
Learning - VOX
• Globalskolen AS
• Norwegian Ministry of
• Lillehammer University College Education and Research
• NKI Nettstudier • Sogn og Fjordane University
• NKS Online Studies College
• Norway Opening Universities • Studiesenteret.no
• University of Nordland
• University of Oslo
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4. Annual Conferences
Open Classroom 22. Oslo 2013
9. Athens 2011 21. Oporto 2012
8. Oporto 2009 20. Dublin, 2011
7. Stockholm 2007 19. Valencia 2010
6. Poitiers 2005 18. Gdansk 2009
5. Copenhagen 2002 17. Lisbon 2008
4. Barcelona 2000 16. Naples 2007
15. Vienna 2006
3. Balatonfüred 1999
14. Helsinki 2005
2. Crete 1997
13. Budapest 2004
1. Oslo 1995 12. Rhodes 2003
11. Granada 2002
10. Stockholm 2001
Research Workshops
8. Moscow 1999
7. Leuven 2012
7. Bologna 1998
6. Budapest 2010 6. Budapest 1997
5. Paris 2008 5. Poitiers 1996
4. Barcelona 2006 4. Birmingham 1995
3. Oldenburg 2004 3. Tallinn 1994
2. Berlin 1993
2. Hildesheim 2002
1. Krakow 1992
1. Prague 2000
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5. Pioneer work in Online Education at NKI Nettstudier
1986: First LMS – specifically developed for distance learning
1987: First online distance education course
1992: Mandatory course for new NKI tutors on the Internet
1996: First web-based courses
2002: First m-learning courses
2003: Speech synthesis in all courses
2004: Individual planning and follow up according to each student’s plan
2004: Continuous tracking of turn-around time
2006: Learning partner system
2008: Global student profiles
2010: Peer counselling system for tutors
2011: Quality barometer for tutors and course materials
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6. 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.
www.ednews.org/articles/10626/1/An-Interview-with-Morten-Flate-Paulsen-
Focusing-on-His-Theory-of-Cooperative-Freedom-in-Online-Education/Page1.html
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7. Six Dimensions of Freedom
Compilation of resources made
by my students at
Universidade Aberta in Portugal
http://ppel4.pbworks.com/
It is difficult to combine individual flexibility and cooperation

8. Cooperative online education
Independence with the help of others
Affinity to learning community
Collaborative Cooperative
learning learning
depends on takes place in
groups networks
Rigid Flexible
individual learning individual learning
is controlled by is controlled by
the school the student
Individual flexibility

9. Cooperative learning
• Cooperative learning seeks to develop virtual learning
environments that allow students to have optimal individual
freedom within online learning communities.
• Cooperative learning is based on voluntary participation in a
learning community
• Cooperative learning benefits from transparency
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10. Cooperative Freedom is discussed in
my books which are available from
http://issuu.com/mfpaulsen
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11. More resources on Cooperative Freedom
• Cooperative online education
www.youtube.com/user/nki2008#p/a/u/2/HVXtbLg5ycE
• 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 Education
www.slideshare.net/MortenFP/futuralia-3400339
• Visualizing student profiles
www.slideshare.net/MortenFP/visualizing-student-profiles-through-nkis-online-catalogue-
and-student-network
• Transparency for Cooperation
http://toonlet.com/archive?m=s&i=11245

12. Transparency
or
privacy?
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14. Transparency improves quality
…of system data, course content, course work etc….
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15. Scandinavian Online Program in Multimedia Journalism
www.webjournalisten.com
Audio Journalism: Berghs School of Communication (Sweden)
Video Journalism: UPDATE – Danish School of Media and Journalism
Text Journalism: NKI Distance Education (Norway)

16. Transparency promotes cooperation
Dalsgaard, C. and Paulsen, M.F. (2009) Transparency in Cooperative Online
Education. IRRODL, Vol 10, No 3.
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17. Three degrees of
transparency
1. Low: Private e-mail
2. Medium: Class forum
3. High: Global web2.0 services
Transparency provides better quality and more
cooperation, but both students and teachers should be
comfortable with the chosen transparency level.
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18. NooA uses
Moodle to support
Cooperative Freedom and Transparency

19. Cooperative and transparent
course in social media

21. Thank you
I care, so I share: www.NooA.no
http://nettstudier.blogspot.com
https://twitter.com/MFPaulsen
www.slideshare.net/MortenFP
www.facebook.com/mfpaulsen
www.eden-online.org/blog
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