The Nordic open online Academy (NooA) provides quality online education through online courses. NooA aims to become an international learning mall for online courses by developing a multilingual learning community that is flexible for students and accredited in multiple countries. NooA values economical, flexible, quality-conscious, transparent, and social learning. It focuses on cooperative online education and being an attractive partner for institutions and companies to develop and translate courses.

1. Nordic open online Academy
An International Learning Mall
for Online Courses
Campus.NooA.info
www.NooA.info www.NooA.pt www.NooA.es www.NooA.fr www.NooA.at
www.NooA.no www.NooA.dk www.NooA.se
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2. Morten Flate Paulsen <mfpaulsen@gmail.com>, Campus NooA, Founder, CEO
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3. Mission
NooA’s mission is to provide quality
online education that creates
sustainable value, public awareness
and footprints to follow
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4. Aims
NooA’s aim is to become an international Learning Mall for
Online Courses. This means that it works to develop a
multilingual learning community which:
1. is an attractive partner for individuals, institutions and
companies that develop, translate and sell online courses
2. provides students with much flexibility and learning value
for their money
3. is acknowledged and accredited in several countries
4. recruits students from many countries
5. provides courses at least in English, Portuguese, Spanish,
German, French, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian
6. is among the largest Nordic providers of online courses
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5. NooA values
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Economical
Flexible
Acknowledging
Quality-conscious
Transparent
Social
Econo
mical
Flexible
Quality
aware
Acknow
ledging
Transpa
rent
E-FAQTS
Social
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6. Cooperative online education
Affinity to learning community
Independence with the help of others
Collaborative
learning
Cooperative
learning
depends on
groups
takes place in
networks
Rigid
individual learning
Flexible
individual learning
is controlled by
the school
is controlled by
the student
Individual flexibility
NooA spesializes in
Cooperative learning

7. Online Footprints
Clockwise:
• www.facebook.com/CampusNooa
• campusnooa.blogspot.no/
• www.linkedin.com/company/campusnooa
• twitter.com/CampusNooA
• www.kursagenten.no/2856/CampusNooA-2856.aspx
• http://campus.nooa.info
• www.nooa.info
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8. International Learning Community
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Partners in several language areas
International Advisory Board
International Quality Board
Scandinavian Student Commission
Campus NooA is easy to understand and remember in many languages
English as a required language for teachers and course developers
– The Collegium (Collegiate forum) is a forum in English for teachers and
course developers
– Certificate for Online Teaching (COT) is required
• The users may choose portal menus in many more languages
• National domain names
• Economic model that stimulates translation
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9. Scandinavian
Student Commision
Campus NooA is establishing a Scandinavian
Student Commission with six representative
participants among NooA’s online students. Their
mandate is to find an organitation form and an
action plan to provide advice and suggestions for
improved quality for NooA’s courses and services.
The student commission is initially limited to Scandinavian students, since it was introduced as
an argument to get financial support from Vox, wich is a Norwegian agency.
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10. International Advisory Board
The Board should consist of members that have special qualifications to
pursue NooA’s mission and give strategic advice on purposes such as:
• Which services, subjects, courses and programs NooA could offer to
support online learners in general and learners with special needs in
particular.
• Research and development activities that can contribute to the
development of NooA, improved online teaching and student support
services and general advancement for the benefit for the entire online
education sector.
• How NooA could disseminate research, evaluations and good practice in
online education to the benefit of the national and international online
education communities.
• How NooA can use e-learning to support and contribute to social
entrepreneurship and humanitarian activities.
• Any other strategic and ideal purpose that supports NooA’s mission.
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11. International Advisory Board
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12. NooA Partners
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Norwegian: MFP
English: MFP
Spanish:
Danish:
Portuguese:
Swedish:
German: To be decided
French: To be decided
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14. The Quality Board mandate
The Quality Board is set up to support Campus NooA in assuring, maintaining
and developing the quality of NooA’s total operations, including information
of courses and programmes, administration of courses and programmes and
student services, course contents, teaching and learning methodology,
evaluation of students, and teacher qualifications.
Main activities:
1. The Quality Board will advise NooA in designing and carrying out
evaluations related to all projects with national and/or international
external funding.
2. The Quality Board will advise NooA in developing and carrying out suitable
evaluation of courses and programmes.
3. The Quality Board will contribute to and ensure that NooA administration
produces a yearly quality report to the Main Board of NooA.
4. The Quality Board will advise NooA in developing a suitable quality
assurance system.
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15. The Quality Board
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16. Keystones
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Individual start and progression
180 or 365 daysaccess to the course
Extra fee for additional access time
Moodle for marketing, prospective system and learning management
Advance payment of tuition fees
PayPal for payment and invoicing
Teachers develop courses without payment in the free course Certificate in Online
Teaching
All students will get free access to the course Student License
All courses must be revised every second year
NooA has the right to use the course if a teacher/course developer withdraw
NooA intend to pay teachers better than the competitors do
NooA does not provide exams, but may prepare for public exams
Students must buy text books themselves
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17. Noen muligheter i Norge
NooA Høgskole
NooA Fagskole
NooA Videregående
NooA Bedriftsopplæring
NooA International
NooA Ungdomsskole
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18. Some milestones
2012
 August: Set up Moodle and web servers
 November: Officially accredited in Norway as "net school"
(nettskole)
 December: Accepted as member of EDEN, NADE and FLUID
 December: Introduces Forfatterskole
2013
 January: Ten courses ready
 March: Received NOK 400.000 grant for course development of 30
courses from Vox
 April: Introduces NooA Videregående skole
 October: 30 courses ready
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19. Some examples
Studentlappen
Vidaregående skole
Skrivarekurs på norsk
Kurs for bedrifter og
organisasjoner
Writing courses in English
Pedagogical courses in
English
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20. Organisasjonskart for NooA AS
Styre
NooA
partnere
Studentkommisjon
Lærere
Rådgivende
organ
Rektor/
Daglig leder
Kursutviklere
Kvalitetsråd
Adm. drift
IT-drift
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21. Caring is sharing, sharing is
caring
Footprints
W:www.lu.se/ced
E:Ebba.Ossiannilsson@ced.lu.se
FB:Ebba Ossiannilsson
T:@EbbaOssian
Phone: +4670995448
S:http://www.slideshare.net/EbbaOs
siann
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http://e4qualityinnovationandlearnin
g.blogspot.se/
Ebba Ossiannilsson NooA Country partner Sweden