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Programme:1. Norwegian University of Science and Technology2. Implementation of it’s learning at NTNU

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53 departments in 7 faculties

20 000 registered students, 7000 admitted/year

3000 degrees awarded a year, 1700 higher degree

220 doctoral degrees awarded a year

4320 employees;

2600 empl. in education and research; 555 professors

NTNU key figuresFACTS

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3 Ten areas of studyArchitectureTechnologyHumanitiesScienceSocial sciencesMedicinePsychologyFine artMusicPractical-pedagogical education

EDUCATION

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NTNU and LMS

• Learning Management System

• NTNU started LMS project in 2001

• The project group should select and implement an e-learning system for NTNU

• Entered an agreement with it’s learning january 2003

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Use:

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Use:

• 26 000 users at NTNU in 2007• 8235 users online last 24 hours• 15071 users online last week• 18152 users online last month

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Implementation

• Integration with already existing systems• Training• Availability• Ownership

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Integration

• With the system for administration of studies (FS)• With NTNU’s user database (BDB)• Single Sign on with NTNU’s student portal (innsida)

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Training

• Training plan spring and summer 2003

• Posted flyers with information of the courses to all employees at NTNU

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Training

• Participants was followed up by the course supervisors when they had completed the course

• “We can come to your office for further help if you need”

• And we did….

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Availability

• The Project group placed emphasize on availability

– to the system by intergrating with other systems

– to the project members and other support persons

– to the user support (Used the excisting user supprt service “orakeltjenesten” at NTNU)

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Training

• 300 employees attended to a 2 hours hands-on course in it’s learning

• Different courses:– introduction to it’s learning

– Communication and interaction in it’s learning (more extensive courses)

– Custom-built courses (for more than three participants)

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Training

• After the training program was ended we performed a evaluation:

– 71 % of the participants to the courses said that they were going to make use of it`s learning in their teaching in the next semester!

– The evaluation indicates that the training program was an imortant part of the implementation process

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Training now…

• Standard courses at the beginning and the end of the semester

• Custom built courses• Roughly 800 employees have attended a course

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Implementation: Organizing today• The responsibility is placed within the Student and

Academic division. The coordinator is located at the Multimedia centre: www.ntnu.no/multimedie

• The rest of the organization is involved in various projects.

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Implementation: Organizing• Orakeltjenesten first-line support• IT-department, involved in integration with the NTNU

intranett and transmission of data from FS and BDB at NTNU

• Program for Teacher Education contribute with educational/didactic support when we need

• We wish to involve numerous units at NTNU for a better sense of belonging to the organisation

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Implementation: summary

• Emphasize on training of staff• Emphasize on integration and automation• Emphasize on user friendliness• Emphasize on accessibility to resource people and to

systems• Emphasize on codetermination and sense of

ownership• Emphasize on learning, more than technology

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Challenges

• Many users, but what kind of use?

– Information– Administration of assignments– Distribution of Power Point

presentations and Word Documents

– Some discussion groups– More focus on the Management

than the Learning?

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Wishes/Future plans

• Alternative teaching methods

(mobile, video, sound)• More focus on learning

content• More advanced use of it’s

learning• Learning Object repository

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