My Online Education World
My Online Education World, 1980-2020 By Morten Flate Paulsen, CEO of NooA – the Nordic open online Academy Published posts
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Learning Norwegian
Learning Norwegian online An interview with Ambrein Shabana Ambrein Shabana is a trainee and online course developer at NooA. She has finished her bachelor in Computer Science in her native land of India. She is married, lives in Norway and has two children – one in a Norwegian kindergarden and one in an international school. Why […]
Benefits of Social Clustering
Regions of the Country will Become Aware of the Benefits of Social Clustering Social clustering is one of the key instruments in Europe, pertaining to social policy modernization and integration. In order to develop the competencies, relevant to public sector and social clustering, in 2015 the project Promotion of Sustainable Development by Strengthening the […]
Streaming education
Streaming Education I am a thinker. Often an ambivalent doubter. An ardent believer in online education – still searching for new terms, like streaming education, to extend my insufficient online education vocabulary. By Morten Flate Paulsen So, what if linear TV is geriatric, linear schools are old fashioned and digital natives prefer streaming TV and […]
Engelske eller nordiske nettkurs?
Kan du tenke deg å følge nordiske nettkurs på norsk, svensk, dansk og engelsk? Vi inviterer alle som forstår et skandinavisk språk til å dele og svare på vår korte spørreundersøkelsen om nordiske nettkurs. Den 27. juli fordelte 241 respondenter seg slik mellom de 7 primærspråkene: norsk 50, dansk 49, svensk 44, islandsk 72, finsk 2, færøysk 12 og […]
Forex online course
Forex online course: Interview with Wayne Walker By Morten Flate Paulsen On March 16, 2015, I received this intriguing e-mail request from Wayne Walker about a forex online course. Four weeks later, after a few Skype meetings and frequent e-mail exchanges, the first student enrolled in our forex online course: GCMS Trading diploma. I think Wayne’s experiences […]
Looking at art through the eyes of an online student
Kristin Manger Lindner about our new online Art School course: I have just completed the course Looking at art through the Eyes of Velazquez and give it my warmest recommendations. A few weeks into the course I already had a basic understanding of Velazquez’s wonderful art as well as the time in which he lived. The 17th century is […]
Looking at art through the work of Velázquez
Online course about the art of Diego Velázquez Diego Velázquez is one of the most renowned European artists and his paintings make a fascinating subject in their own right. He is a seminal figure for the study of both Spanish history and art; as court painter to the King Philip IV he lived at the […]
The Kragerø Open Online Education Declaration
The Kragerø Open Online Education Declaration was conceived and signed by a group of 14 Nordic experts related to the field, attending Campus NooA‘s workshop on online education at the Hasselholmen Island from May 28 to June 1, 2014. Our discussions revealed that online learning and education covers a much broader range of activities, issues […]
Quality in online education: an interview with professor Torstein Rekkedal
This interview is also available in Norwegian. Professor Torstein Rekkedal is chairing Campus NooA’s International quality board which is set up to support NooA in assuring, maintaining and developing the quality of NooA’s total operations. This includes information of courses and programmes, administration of courses and programmes and student services, course contents, teaching and learning […]
Campus Lisa: Creativity in Online Education
Lisa Srømme teaches her creativity course in NooA. It is designed to help people move with ease through creative blocks such as perfectionism, procrastination, overwhelm, self-sabotage and lack of focus. Lisa Strømme is a British writer and creativity coach. She is the only Kaizen-Muse certified creativity coach and Muse Group facilitator in Scandinavia and she […]
Campus Alastair: An interview about quality in online education
The interview is also available in Swedish. Alastair Creelman works with net-based learning at Linnaeus University, Kalmar in south-east Sweden with particular interest in social media and open educational resources. He is also a board member of the European Foundation for Quality in E-learning. He is also on NooA’s International quality board which is set […]
Campus Anne
Anne Fox is NooA’s partner in Denmark. She is also teaching the NooA courses Coaching Techniques and How to mentor international interns and staff. Which learning resources are especially interesting or useful in your courses? Things are moving so fast that it is important to include up to date resources as much as possible. I think […]
Welcome Development Grants
March 1st, Campus NooA welcomed NOK 400.000 (about 50.000 Euros) in development grants from Vox – the Norwegian Agency for Lifelong Learning. In the one-year Vox project, Campus NooA will develop a number of online courses and services in collaboration with its Scandinavian content partners. March 1st was also the deadline for three Nordplus applications […]
Five trends in online education
By Morten Flate Paulsen In Reflections after 25 years with online teaching I wrote about some of the long time trends in online education. In such a long perspective, the following five developments are promising, but immature. One important challenge is how learning providers could develop sustainable business models to maintain these services as an […]
Advisory Board Mandate
Advisory Board Mandate Which words would you like to highlite in this preliminary version of: Campus NooA’s Advisory Board Mandate? NooA’s mission is to provide quality online education that creates sustainable value, public awareness and footprints to follow. The International Advisory Board should therefore consist of members that have special qualifications to pursue the mission […]
Reflections after 25 years with online teaching
During the fall of 1987, I developed and taught my first online course for NKI Nettstudier. As far as I know, it was the very first online distance education course in Europe. To celebrate the 25th aniversary, we have now scanned and uploaded the first English report Torstein Rekkedal and I wrote about our pioneering […]
Seasons greetings 2012
Seasons greetings to colleagues and friends as we prepare for the holidays 🙂 Dear Colleagues and Friends, We wish you a Happy Holiday and a Fruitful New Year Thank you for all help and support in our first, exciting year when we succeded in establishing: Campus NooA The international Learning Mall for Online Courses Campus.nooa.info […]
Advisory Board
The international advisory board consists of experts representing education, environmental issues, art, litterature, public awareness, social awareness, technology and social media. Mandate for the Advisory Board NooA’s mission is to provide quality online education that creates sustainable value, public awareness and footprints to follow. The International Advisory Board should therefore consist of members that have […]
NooA News, December 2012
In this issue Editorial: NooA’s online education activities in Denmark FLUID – Foreningen for Fleksibel Uddannelse i Danmark Forfatterskole.dk introduces writing courses in English and Norwegian The first Dane enrolled in Certificate in Online Teaching Moodle in Denmark Open Educational Resources (OER) in Denmark The Mall Editorial: NooA’s online education activities in Denmark In this […]
Mission, aims and values
NooA’s mission is to provide quality online education that creates sustainable value, public awareness and footprints to follow. 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: is an attractive partner for individuals and businesses that develop, translate and sell […]
About NooA
NooA was named during a pit stop at an Up State New York antique shop. There, among artifacts, antiquities, junk and childhood treasures, suddenly appeared some wooden alphabet blocks that load and clear spelled out the colorful word NooA. Showing the blocks to people from various countries, I realized that they could easily pronounce and […]
NooA – the Nordic open online Academy
NooA was named during a pit stop at an Up State New York antique shop. There, among artifacts, antiquities, junk and childhood treasures, suddenly appeared some wooden alphabet blocks that load and clear spelled out the colorful word NooA. Showing the blocks to people from various countries, I realized that they could easily pronounce and […]