Campus NooA was established and accredited as a Norwegian online school by the Ministry of Education and Research in 2012. NooA’s aim is to become an international centre for online courses and programs. So far, NooA offers 50 online courses in Norwegian, English, Swedish and Danish. The courses are offered through the multilingual, open source, learning platform Moodle. All courses are completely online and based on the Theory of Cooperative Freedom and Transparency in Online Education.   The presentation focuses on how Campus NooA implements the theory and on the entrepreneurial experiences from the development of a private, Nordic open online Academy.

1. Cooperative freedom and
transparency in online education
Examples and experiences from the
Nordic open online Academy (NooA)
and its implementation of multilingual
and flexible online education in Moodle.
Professor Morten Flate Paulsen
www.NooA.no
A 30-minute presentation at the 2nd NORDEFCO ADL Conference
Gol, Norway. May 14, 2014
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http://issuu.com/mfpaulsen
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www.facebook.com/mfpaulsen
www.eden-online.org/blog/
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2. Abstract
Campus NooA was established and accredited as a Norwegian
online school by the Ministry of Education and Research in
2012. NooA’s aim is to become an international centre for
online courses and programs. So far, NooA offers 50 online
courses in Norwegian, English, Swedish and Danish. The
courses are offered through the multilingual, open source,
learning platform Moodle. All courses are completely online
and based on the Theory of Cooperative Freedom and
Transparency in Online Education.
The presentation focuses on how Campus NooA implements
the theory and on the entrepreneurial experiences from the
development of a private, Nordic open online Academy.
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3. About me
• Established Campus NooA in 2012
• Professor II at Sør-Trøndelag University College
• Worked with online education at NKI Nettstudier 1986 – 2012
• President of EDEN European Distance and E-learning Network
(2010-2013)
• Doctor of Education from the Pennsylvania State University
• American Center for the Study of Distance Education (1990 -1992)
• Adjunct Professor Athabasca University (1999 - 2005)
• Professor associado Universidade Aberta, Portugal (2009-2010)
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4. Developing Campus NooA
the Nordic open online Academy
Aim: to build an international learning mall that helps
organizations and educators to provide quality online
courses and online students to learn any time anywhere.
Needs:
• An online learning theory
• A lean and flexible organization
• A learning platform
• Course development
• Marketing
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5. 5
The most interesting pedagogical challenge in our
lifetime is to provide online education that combines
individual freedom with meaningful cooperation.
I have struggled with this challenge since I first
introduced my Theory of Cooperative Freedom in 1992.
www.ednews.org/articles/10626/1/An-Interview-with-Morten-Flate-Paulsen-
Focusing-on-His-Theory-of-Cooperative-Freedom-in-Online-Education/Page1.html

6. Six Dimensions of Freedom
It is difficult to combine individual flexibility and cooperation
Compilation of resources made
by my students at
Universidade Aberta in Portugal
http://ppel4.pbworks.com/
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7. More resources on Cooperative Freedom and
Transparency in Online Education
• Cooperative online education
http://www.slideshare.net/MortenFP/cooperative-freedom-6137952
• Online education barometers
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyoe7dGIwkE&feature=relmfu
• Transparency in Cooperative Online Education
www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/671/1267
• E-viva em Portugal http://nettstudier.blogspot.com/
• Cooperative Online Education http://seminar.net/index.php/volume-4-issue-2-2008-
previousissuesmeny-124/100-cooperative-online-education
• Cooperative Freedom and Transparency in Online Education
www.slideshare.net/MortenFP/futuralia-3400339
• Visualizing student profiles
www.slideshare.net/MortenFP/visualizing-student-profiles-through-nkis-online-catalogue-
and-student-network
• Transparency for Cooperation
http://toonlet.com/archive?m=s&i=11245
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8. Individual paceing
Collective
paceing
Individual start-upCollective start-up
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9. Organisation
Executive
board
Advisory
board
Quality
board
Language
area
partners
Student
commission
Content
providers
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10. Learning Management system
Moodle 2.6
• Dynamic adaption of
screen-size to:
• PC
• Tablet
• Smartphone
• Badges
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11. NooA is
multilingual
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12. Develop
courses with
partners
E-train
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13. Ten reasons for delivering your
courses with Campus NooA
1. You don’t need to pay for development of your online courses
2. NooA handles marketing, quality assurance, administration,
operation and student support
3. You don’t need to cancel courses with few participants
4. Recruit more participants from a larger geographical area, and
additional people with flexible start-up and progression.
5. Reduce travel, subsistence and hotel costs
6. Distribute course content quicker and cheaper
7. Reach the market swifter with new products and services
8. Increase sales, use e-learning as a competitive advantage and
value added service
9. Develop better relations with members, costumers and suppliers
10. Achieve higher competence and better cooperation through
collaboration with NooA
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14. Example: Spanish for adopting parents
www.NooA.no
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15. Assignment examples
from Writing course I
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16. NooA uses Moodle to support
Cooperative Freedom and Transparency
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17. The Mall:
Free tidbits of some of our courses
The Student
Certificate is
provided for
free to all
our students
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18. Online marketing
Facebook: www.facebook.com/CampusNooa
Blogger: campusnooa.blogspot.no/
Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/company/campus-nooa
Issuu: issuu.com/campusnooa
Slideshare: www.slideshare.net/CampusNooA
YouTube: www.youtube.com/campusnooa
Instagram: http://statigr.am/campusnooa
Twitter: twitter.com/CampusNooA
twitter.com/NooAsamfunnsfag
twitter.com/NooAmatematikk
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19. Thank you
The presentation is available at
www.slideshare.net/MortenFP
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www.NooA.no