Online Teaching in NKI

Unit 2 of 3

Processos Pedagógicos em eLearningMestrado Pedagogia do eLearning 

Hugo Domingoswww.visualcv.com/hugodom

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Starting an online courseTeachers? Curriculum? Activities? Evaluation?

This is Erica, a new student of NKI online education program.

After deciding to take an online course, she’s now developing expectations

about her learning experience:

What to expect from the teachers and their online teaching techniques?

How does she’s going to communicate with them?

And how the evaluation is going to be develop?

See Unit 1 – Cooperative Freedom  to learn more about Erica 2

Teachers Presentations

In these presentations, teachers may provide:

• advices to students about the course,

• their experience has a teacher,

• teaching strategies,

• expectations about the students.

This information is important to social unity within the learning community.

The advices are also valuable for prospective students.

One of the features allowed by the NKI LMS (SESAM) is the possibility for students to see teachers presentations.

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How to Teach Online?  

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He’s been developing an curriculum for his course, but on online education he also has to

develop online teaching techniques that are different from face-to face classroom interaction.

To allow cooperative freedom, he also has to think about different learning scenarios:

This is Prof Kristofferson.

Chemistry Teacher at NKI.

One‐to one?or one to many?

Synchronous or 

asynchronous? 

Textbooks or 

Animations? 

Online Teaching Techniques  

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Asynchronous communication offers much individual flexibility in time, while synchronous communication makes students dependent on each other. Because of its flexibility in time, asynchronous communication is the preferred form of communication in cooperative learning environments.

Student‐Content Techniques

• Online databases

• Online journals • Online applications 

• Software Libraries 

One‐to‐oneTechniques

• Learning Contracts 

• Apprenticeships  • Correspondence Studies

• WrittenInterviews

One‐to‐many Techniques 

• Recorded Lectures

• Symposiums• Story Play • Tutorials

Many‐to‐many Techniques

• Simulations or games

• Role Plays• Case Studies• Discussion groups

• Brainstorming• Forums• Project groups

The Learning Begin…

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Dear Students,Your assignments are available at the page course. Please, read them carefully and start developing your Individual Progress Plans.  

This tool is great!Allows me to 

plan my tasks and keep a steady 

study progression before my exams.

Individual Progress Plans

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Since 2004, NKI has integrated tools for individual progress planning in its LMS.All students are encouraged to register their individual progress plans, and they may change their plans whenever they like.

Mindmap author: Prof. Morten Paulsen - http://home.nki.no/morten/

Online Teaching and Learning

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Assigments

Individual direction: Send submission as e‐mail to the teacher.

Cooperative direction: Discuss the assignment with a colleague or a peer student. Write a short summary of the discussion and send it as e‐mail to the teacher. 

Collaborative direction: Write a paper together with one or two other students and submit the paper as e‐mail to the teacher.

Assessment

Computer‐based assessment: Students have access to statistics and information derived from other students taking the same test.

Self‐assessment: Students can access some statistics or information from other students who have completed the same self‐assessment.

Peer assessment: Students are encouraged to voluntary assess each other’s work.

Teacher assessment: Students have access to some of the information the tutor provides or derives from assessing other students.

Teacher Workload 

Overviewpapers

Delayed student

Students who have planned

Response TimeMeasurement

Access to thepresentations

How  I’m going to control my students 

progress? 

NKI’s submission system was developed to track and supervisethe time from students’ submissions to teachers’ grading, through a web-interface.

The LMS system can provide reports related to following-up the individual progression plans and response time between submissions and registration of grades.

Giving Feedback to Students

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In a cooperative virtual learning environment, following-up individual progress plans could be supported by the individual student, automated e-mail and SMSmessages, tutors and administrators.

I’m so delayed with this 

assignment!

Erica didn’t finish this last assignment? 

Dear Erica, How’s your upcoming assignment? Do you need help? Prof. Kristofferson

Students Progress Reports

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In Janury 2009, NKI implemented an e‐mail individual monthly progress reports to all students

NKI has introduced procedures to remind and encourage students who are delayed, using:

• Tools that make it easy for teachers to send personal e-mail reminders to students.

• Tools that help administrative personnel send seasonal bulk reminders to procrastinating students

• Student access to other students’progress plans, allowing contact and encourage peers who have problems following their plans.

Includes personal:• Contact information• LMS settings• Progress report• Planed progress

Being an Online Student

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Dear Prof Kristofferson, 

Sorry about the delay in the last assignment. You’re email was important to motivate me. With your help I manage to finish the assignment.

I’m very pleased with your teaching techniques and the flexibility that NKI provides for the online students.

I want to continue to learn at my one pace, but sometimes I feel very lonely. How can I cooperate more with other students? 

To be continued…

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In the next unit I‘ll demonstrate how transparency in NKI can increase cooperation between online students and  becoming Learning Partners:

• Unit 3: Transparency in Online Education.

Bibliography 

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This work was based on the following bibliography:

• Paulsen, Morten Flate. “Cooperative Online Education.” Seminar.net. http://www.seminar.net/index.php/volume‐4‐issue‐2‐2008‐previousissuesmeny‐

124/100‐cooperative‐online‐education.

• Paulsen, Morten Flate. “Visualizing Student Profiles through NKI's Online Catalogue and Student Network,” Cambridge International Conference on Open

Distance Learning, Setembro 23, 2009. http://www.slideshare.net/MortenFP/visualizing‐student‐profiles‐through‐nkis‐

online‐catalogue‐and‐student‐network.

• Center for Teaching and Learning ‐ Queen's University. “Overview of Online Teaching Techniques for Computer‐Mediated Communications.” 

http://www.queensu.ca/ctl/goodpractice/technology/online_activities.html

Hugo Domingoswww.visualcv.com/hugodom