The document summarizes information about NKI, one of Europe's largest providers of online distance education. Some key details: - NKI has over 110,000 course enrollments since 1987 across a broad range of subjects from secondary to master's level. - The organization has around 10,000 online students in about 40 countries, with 70% being women. Revenue in 2007 was 14 million Euros, of which 9.5 million came from online education. - NKI utilizes individual progress plans, learning partners, and a global student catalogue to support its philosophy of facilitating individual freedom and cooperative learning within an online community. - Features like automatic tracking of response times and individual progress reports help NKI

1. Please view and comment on my presentation via my homepage at: http://home.nki.no/morten/ A 25-minutes keynote presentation at the EADEN conference in Gdansk 14.05.2009

4. Secondary school courses: Tonje Kvalvik 18 courses completed Vocational courses: Thor Steinsland 24 and Roger Skogberget 27 College courses: Trude Helen Flak 13 and Erma Bratic 14 Celebrating 100 000 online course enrolments During the first 20 years, NKI’s online students enrolled in hundred thousand courses and spent many million hours of studying to reach their goals. This was celebrated August 22, 2008 with 5 students as guests of honour.

5. Online access available for the remaining correspondence students in July 2009

6. NKI provides cooperative online education

10. NKI introduced the individual planning system as a voluntary option in May 2004.

13. Lists with information about next submission number and planned submission date makes cooperation easier

18. Presentations May 2009 The default values are: Limited visibility and Don’t want LP Visibility Want LP Don’t want LP Sum Percent Closed 141 913 1054 10 Limited 2096 3469 5565 55 Open 745 1580 2325 23 Global 670 488 1158 12 Sum 3652 6450 10102 100 Percent 36 64 100

19. Google translation of the Global Catalogue at www.nki.no/pp

21. Video with 20 random samples of global presentations

23. How to manage 28 self-paced courses, three kids and a job in the North Sea Thor Steinsland www.nki.no/pp/steinslandt presented his experiences at the EDEN Research Workshop in Paris, October 2008

24. There are NKI students who understand Norwegian in about 40 countries Translated by Google from www.nki.no/pp/ThereseSvihus

25. Presented with permission from www.nki.no/pp/LexidhSolstad I now try to get a diploma showing that I can write. Have worked as a TV journalist … but now the Fibromyalgia pains restrains me so much that I have to work from bed in the future.

26. Translated by Google from www.nki.no/skole/pp/ViviHurtley I was accepted as a psychology student at the university, but had no interpreter, so I chose to study online to combine family life and education. I need a sign language interpreter to follow traditional lectures, since I am deaf. So it is ideal with NKI, since I do not need an interpreter.

32. Transparency or privacy ?

35. Transparency improves quality

36. Transparency promotes cooperation Dalsgaard, C. and Paulsen, M.F. (2009) Transparency in Cooperative Online Education. IRRODL, Vol 10, No 3.

37. Questions? Now, at my homepage or at the Keynote Workshop 11.30 The presentation and contact information is available via: http://home.nki.no/morten