Cooperation in distance education - with e- and mLearning at NKI Distance Education

Cooperation in distance educationwith e- and mLearning at NKI Distance Education

28.05.2008 Conference: NoEL - Netværk om eLæring, Denmark

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.


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


19872008


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).


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.


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).


What does this mean for our PCs?

• 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...


Trends


Web 2.0


Flexibility in distance education

• Models of teaching and learning• Distance Education:

Individualised Flexible Teaching

or Teaching in ’The

Extended Classroom’


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.”


Learning approaches

• dLearning• eLearning• mLearning• cLearning?


CLIPCooperative Learner Information Profile

• Cooperative Learning Information Profile



My student presentation

Planning


Cooperation for delivering assignments

Portfolios in SESAM(NKI’s LMS)


Follow up


COG

• COoperative Gating


Teacher workload

• work hours vs. leisure time

• Institutions must supply the tools


•teachers wants increased flexibility

•students wants answers now!

LP

• Learning Partners


The mobile phone @50+

• Ericsson released the first mobile phone in 1956. "Mobile Telephony A”.

• 40 kilo • mounted in

the car

Conference: NoEL - Netværk om eLæring, Denmark

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.


M-learning for PDAs: Overview

Builds on 4 EU-projects from 2001-2008

1. From e-learning to m-learning (2000-2003)

2. Mobile learning – the next generation of learning (2003-2005)

3. Incorporating mobile learning into mainstream education (2005-

2007)

4. The role of mobile learning in European education (2006-2008)


Learn to Learn(link for mobile phones)


Thank you!• NKI Distance Education

http://www.nki.no

• NKI Internet Collegehttp://nettskolen.nki.no/

• Presenters home pagehttp://www.dye.no/


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