Annotated bibliography - Transparency in Cooperative Online Education

The personal presentations are developed to support NKI’s learning philosophy for online students:

NKI Distance Education facilitates individual freedom within a learning community in which online students serve as mutual resources without being dependent on each other.

NKI introduced the presentations to make students more visible, and thus make it easier to take into account, their personal qualities and individual characteristics as suggested by (Grepperud and Rønning 2007:159).

- NKI’s presentation scheme makes students more visible to other students, teachers and the world.

- The transparency makes it easier to provide students with individual service adapted to their personal needs.

- The presentations show the human being behind the e-mail address and student ID.

- Ten out of hundred presentations show that the students chose online education due to particular needs and challenges.

- Many presentations show that students appreciate NKI’s flexibility and opportunity to find learning partners.

Facing twelve hundred online students
Morten Flate Paulsen
Norwegian Information Technology College, mfp@nki.no, www.nki.no/pp/MFP