EEA and Norway Grants

Level Up!

Level Up! is a project that develops four online courses language for language teachers. The project partners are Lingua Consulting in Poland and NooA in Norway. The Project is supported by the EEA and Norway Grants funded by Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway. The Grants have two goals – to contribute to a more equal Europe, […]

My Online Education World

My Online Education World, 1980-2020

So far, a chronicle of 300 personal anecdotes, experiences and reflections on people, events, technology and pedagogy that influenced four decades of my online education work. The narrative is based on my international practice with online education as a pioneer, student, teacher, course designer, system developer, administrator, board member, researcher, professor, author, editor, reviewer, entrepreneur […]

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 […]

Skandinaviske nettkurs eller engelske nettkurs

Skandinaviske eller engelske nettkurs?

Skandinaviske nettkurs i et internasjonalt marked Nordmenn, svensker og dansker vil heller ha nettkurs på engelsk enn på et annet skandinavisk språk. Det er likevel mange av dem som kan tenke seg kurs på et skandinavisk språk. Tilbudet av engelskspråklige kurs på nettet er enormt, internasjonale aktører konkurrerer i økende grad om de skandinaviske kursdeltakerne […]

Engleske eller nordiske nettkurs

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 […]

Tusen brukerei 20 land - NooA har blitt en internasjonal nettskole

Starptautiska tiešsaistes skola

This post is translated by Sarmīte Pilāte from the English and Norwegian post Internasjonal nettskole. Starptautiska tiešsaistes skola ar 1000 lietotājiem 20 valstīs 2015. gadā maijā mēs sasniedzām nozīmīgu pavērsienu- Campus NooAs mācību portālā reģistrēts 1000. lietotājs. Mēs veidojam starptautisku tiešsaistes skolu, kurā patlaban ir lietotāji no 20 valstīm, kuras iezīmētas ar karogiem attēlā. Šie karogi tiek parādīti […]

Tusen brukerei 20 land - NooA har blitt en internasjonal nettskole

Internasjonal nettskole

Internasjonal nettskole med 1000 brukere i 20 land I mai 2015 nådde vi en betydelig milepæl da bruker nummer 1000 registrerte seg på Campus NooAs læringsportal. Vi er i ferd med å bli en internasjonal nettskole med brukere fra alle de 20 landene som representeres med flagg i bildet. Flaggene vises i alfabetisk rekkefølge fra […]

GCMS Trading Diploma and Binary Options Trading Course from Global Capital Market Solutions

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 […]

Kristin Manger Lindner - kunst - looking at art

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 […]

Art of Velazquez - Looking at art through the work of Velazquez

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 declaration - Kragerø erklæringen

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 […]

Torstein Rekkedal - kvalitet i nettstudier

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 […]

Lisa Strømme

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 […]

Alastair Creelmaner

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 […]

VOX

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 […]

trends in online education

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

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 […]

Online education books

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 […]

Holiday card - seasons greetings

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 […]

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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 […]

Favourite Campus - NooA News

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

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 […]

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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 […]

Morten Flate Paulsen

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 […]