Cooperation in distance education

1. Cooperation in distance education with e- and mLearning at NKI Distance Education Conference: NoEL - Netværk om eLæring, Denmark

2. Aleksander Dye started at NKI Distance Education in 2001 in the R&D department as a system developer. Working with the development of SESAM - the LMS (learning management system) of NKI comprehensive knowledge about SESAM and how to adapt it to different needs. have been part of the research team on mobile learning since 2001 being part of four projects on mLearning. in 2007 focus changed to research in the field of distance education and is now a researcher at NKI working with mobile learning as well as being project manager for the development of SESAM. Conference: NoEL - Netværk om eLæring, Denmark

3. NKI Distance education • NKI Distance Education (www.nki.no) • Online distance education since 1987 (100,000 enrolments) • Broad specter of subjects from secondary to master level • One of Europe’s larges providers of online distance education • About 9000 online students in at least 34 countries • 54 % women • More than 450 courses online • Startup every day • Individual progress plans • Always room for more students • Exams at local schools and embassies Conference: NoEL - Netværk om eLæring, Denmark

4. 19872008 Conference: NoEL - Netværk om eLæring, Denmark

5. What the future might bring... • Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons. • Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science (1949). Conference: NoEL - Netværk om eLæring, Denmark

6. What will 2034 bring According to Moore's Law, computer power doubles every 18 months, meaning that computers will be a million times more powerful by 2034. According to Nielsen's Law of Internet bandwidth, connectivity to the home grows by 50% per year; by 2034, we'll have 200,000 times more bandwidth. Conference: NoEL - Netværk om eLæring, Denmark

7. My PC i 2034... • I'll own a computer that runs at 3 PHz CPU speed, has a petabyte of memory, half an exabyte of harddisk-equivalent storage, and connects to the Internet with a bandwidth of a quarter terabit per second • (peta is 1015, or a million giga; exa is 1018, or a billion giga). • My computer display, will have a resolution of about 20,000 x 10,000 pixels (as opposed to the miserly 1440x 900 pixels on my current monitor). Conference: NoEL - Netværk om eLæring, Denmark

8. Whatdoesthismean for ourPCs? Our personal computer will remember anything we've ever seen or done in both cyberspace and meatspace. A complete HDTV record of every waking hour of your life will consume 0.01 EB, or 2% of your harddisk. Is there then a possibility that mLearning will be of use... Conference: NoEL - Netværk om eLæring, Denmark

9. Trends Conference: NoEL - Netværk om eLæring, Denmark

10. Web 2.0 Conference: NoEL - Netværk om eLæring, Denmark

11. Flexibility in distance education • Individualised Flexible Teaching or • Teaching in ’The Extended Classroom’ Models of teaching and learning Distance Education: Conference: NoEL - Netværk om eLæring, Denmark

12. NKI basic philosophies concerning distance learning • Views of knowledge and learning • The result of learning is a change in the student’s perceptions • Learning is a qualitative change in understanding • Learning is an active process • Learning is a socially supported individual process • “NKI Distance Education aims to offer distance education solutions that make the students attain their learning objectives through optimum individual flexibility where the students shall represent resources for each other without being dependent on each other.” Conference: NoEL - Netværk om eLæring, Denmark

13. Learningapproaches dLearning eLearning mLearning cLearning? Conference: NoEL - Netværk om eLæring, Denmark

14. CLIPCooperative LearnerInformationProfile Cooperative LearningInformationProfile Conference: NoEL - Netværk om eLæring, Denmark

15. My student presentation Conference: NoEL - Netværk om eLæring, Denmark

16. Planning Conference: NoEL - Netværk om eLæring, Denmark

17. Cooperation for deliveringassignments Portfolios in SESAM(NKI’s LMS) Conference: NoEL - Netværk om eLæring, Denmark

18. Follow up Conference: NoEL - Netværk om eLæring, Denmark

19. COG COoperativeGating Conference: NoEL - Netværk om eLæring, Denmark

20. Teacherworkload • teacherswantsincreasedflexibility • students wantsanswersnow! workhours vs. leisuretime Institutions must supplythetools Conference: NoEL - Netværk om eLæring, Denmark

21. LP Learning Partners Conference: NoEL - Netværk om eLæring, Denmark

22. The mobile phone @50+ • Ericsson releasedthe first mobile phone in 1956. "Mobile TelephonyA”. • 40 kilo • mounted in thecar Conference: NoEL - Netværk om eLæring, Denmark

23. Our definition of mobile learning mLearning is learning that can take place anytime, anywhere with the help of a mobile computer device. The device must be capable of presenting learning content and providing wireless two-way communication between teacher(s) and student(s). Typically, an educational organization administrates both the course content and the communication services. Conference: NoEL - Netværk om eLæring, Denmark

24. M-learning for PDAs: Overview Builds on 4 EU-projects from 2001-2008 From e-learning to m-learning (2000-2003) Mobile learning – the next generation of learning(2003-2005) Incorporating mobile learning into mainstream education (2005-2007) The role of mobile learning in European education(2006-2008) Conference: NoEL - Netværk om eLæring, Denmark

25. Learn to Learn(link for mobile phones) Conference: NoEL - Netværk om eLæring, Denmark

26. Thank you! NKI Distance Educationhttp://www.nki.no NKI Internet Collegehttp://nettskolen.nki.no/ Presenters home pagehttp://www.dye.no/ Conference: NoEL - Netværk om eLæring, Denmark