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

Cooperation in distance education with 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.

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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

1987  2008 28.05.2008 Conference: NoEL - Netværk om eLæring, Denmark

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 10 15 , or a million giga; exa is 10 18 , 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 ...

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Web 2.0 28.05.2008 Conference: NoEL - Netværk om eLæring, Denmark

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?

CLIP Cooperative Learner Information Profile

Cooperative Learning Information Profile

28.05.2008 Conference: NoEL - Netværk om eLæring, Denmark My student presentation

Planning 28.05.2008 Conference: NoEL - Netværk om eLæring, Denmark

Cooperation for delivering assignments Portfolios in SESAM (NKI’s LMS) 28.05.2008 Conference: NoEL - Netværk om eLæring, Denmark

Follow up 28.05.2008 Conference: NoEL - Netværk om eLæring, Denmark

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

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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