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Developments to support needs of freedom, flexibility and cooperation in online distance education
Now what?
EADL Conference
Marbella, May 21st-23rd, 2008
Svein Qvist-Eriksen, Managing Director
Torstein Rekkedal, Professor, Director R & D
NKI Distance Education
Norway
Some new developments
SESAM 6 New technological platform supporting individual flexible learning and cooperative learning
Planning system and learning partner system Cooperative documents Universal accessibility – talking web pages Mobile learning - Refining the environment to meet the needs to the
‘mobile learner’
The Context – NKI Distance education
NKI Internet College – online distance education:
Online distance education since 1987 (100,000 enrolments) One of Europe’s largest providers of online distance education Wide variety of courses from secondary to master level Over 450 courses online 9000 online students in over 35 countries Free starting time and individual progression schedules
5 phases of development 1987-2008
The Development of NKI Internet College – 5 ’Generations’ 1987 - 1994:
1. Generation – based on the ’EKKO’ conferencing system
1994 - 1995: 2. Generation – ’The Open Electronic College’: Philosophy: Constructing a system as
’open’ as possible in relation to external networks and services, based on the Internet, e-mail and Listserv conferencing system
1996 - 2000: 3. Generation – ’from small scale to large scale’ and permanent operation based on the
WWW
2001 - 2007: 4. Generation – Introduction of a fully integrated system for development and administration
of teaching/learning, logistics, invoices and salaries to handle ten thousands of students in flexible learning on hundreds of courses, programmes and tutors
2007 - 5. Generation – New technological platform that opens for new services and continuous
exchange of data between the LMS and Student Administrative System (STAS)
Systems Integration for Optimal Student Support Solutions
NKI basic philosophies concerning distance learning
Student autonomy and flexibility “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.”
Social software
Student presentations Student lists with information Software solutions for inviting and accepting partners and establish
connections
Learning in cooperative freedom
Learning can be individual, cooperative or collaborative
Individual learning provides maximum flexibility and minimum social support
Cooperative learning provides much flexibility and access to a learning community
Collaborative learning provides minimum flexibility and requires involvement and participation in the learning community
Measures to stimulate cooperative learning
In the LMS: The Planning system The Student Presentation and Information system (CLIP) The Learning Partner solutions The Forum solutions The Cooperative Documents solutions – work on common
documents
In the courses: Forums integrated with the learning materials Cognitive gating assignments (COGs) Cooperative assignments
Universal Accessibility
A main aim generally and also for mobile learning solutions Functionalities of LMS, learning materials interactive assignments
and course pages have been examined and tested concerning universal accessibility
Talking web pages
Presentations and Learning Partner
Statistics April 2008:
Mobile learning in online distance education
4 EU-projects from 2001-2008 – main aim to increase services and add flexibility to online learning1. 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)
Mobile learning and statistics
The CEO of Ericsson, Carl-Heinric Sandberg, announced a short time ago that the number of mobile subscriptions in the world had reached 3.300.000.000. This is for a world population of about 6.5 billion.
This means there is a wireless device for every 2 persons in the world, including all ages, the poorest and also developing countries.
Mobile learning and distance education
Technology:
There is an old truth in distance education research which states that ‘it is not technologies with inherent pedagogical qualities that triumph in distance education but technologies which are generally available to citizens’.
If this is true there has never been a technology as available to citizens as mobile telephony. The figure is now 3.3 billion and rising rapidly.
Distance education cannot disregard mobile technologies.
Mobile learning in online distance education
Main aims: Increase flexibility of distance education Extend distribution and communication to handheld devices Refining the learning environment to meet the needs of the ‘mobile
learner’ Increase the level of universal accessibility
Mobile learning in online distance education
1st project:
Developing special version of courses for mobile access
2nd project:
Always online environment, developing the mLMS
3rd project:
SMS services
4th project:
Universal accessibility and speech synthesis
Results from the student survey
Technology and accessMobile phone with access to web pages
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Using the phone to access web pages
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Read literature and study guides on the mobile phone
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Yes Don’t know No
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Results from the student survey
Views on SMS Services
Incorrect m ail address
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Verypositive
Positive Neutral Negative Verynegative
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Follow up
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Verypositive
Positive Neutral Negative Verynegative
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Tim e and place for exam s
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Verypositive
Positive Neutral Negative Verynegative
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Exam results
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Verypositive
Positive Neutral Negative Verynegative
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Results from the student survey
Using the mobile phone in online studyUsefulness of mobile access to course pages
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Yes Don’t know No
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Plan studies, submit assignments or update personal data from the mobile phone
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Yes Don’t know No
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Read forum contributions from the mobile phone
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Yes Don’t know No
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Write forum contributions from the mobile phone
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Yes Don’t know No
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Thank you!
NKI Internet College:http://nettskolen.nki.no/
Torstein Rekkedal home page: http://home.nettskolen.nki.no/~torstein/
