E-learning experiences with Universidade Aberta, conferences and projects in Portugal

1. My Portuguese
Online Education
World
E-learning experiences
with UAb, conferences
and projects in Portugal
A 15 minutes keynote
by Morten Flate Paulsen
At mPeL’s celebration of 15 years with
Uab’s pedagogical model
October 25, 2022 via Zoom
So far, a chronicle of 250 personal anecdotes, experiences and reflections on
people, events, technology and pedagogy that influenced four decades of my
online education work.
www.nooa.no/my-online-education-world/

2. 16 anecdotes unfold my Portugal passion
• 1985: Return to Rio
• 1991: EDEN established with Armando Trindade (Uab)
• 1993: Andrea Bonita
• 1998: Falling in love with Portugal
• 1998: Brasilia Keynote
• 1999: Embracing Marciano
• 2001: Challenges 2001
• 2002: Web-edu
• 2005: Braga
• 2006: E-learning quality in European SMEs
• 2007: Megatrends in E-learning
• 2008: The first EDEN conference blog in Lisbon
• 2009: Online in Cascais
• 2009: EDEN Open Classroom on Twitter in Porto
• 2010: A transparent course on an open stage at MPeL
• 2012: EDEN on YouTube in Porto

3. 1998: Falling in love with Portugal
Ana Dias (Techminho) organized the first CISAER meeting in Sintra.
We analysed online courses from 30 institutions in 26 countries.
The analyses resulted in 8 recommendations:
1. Promote national and international harmonization of degrees, certificates, credits, and
grades to facilitate online mobility of students.
2. Oppose national regulations that inhibits institutions from charging tuition fees.
3. Focus on cost effective online education.
4. Develop better systems for administration of online education.
5. Support initiatives for training of online teachers, administrators, and instructional
designers.
6. Oppose regulations and attitudes that inhibits online assessment.
7. Support further research on online pedagogy and didactics.
8. Develop and implement strategies to reduce the workload of online teachers.

4. 2002: Web-edu
The Portuguese project partners:
• Tecminho
• Minho University
• Inofor
Project members in picture: Helmut Fritsch, Paulo Dias, Ana
Dias, Pedro Pimenta, Gro-Anett Olsen, Morten Flate Paulsen
and Carina Baptista.
The report presented the major findings from our six regional
analyses.
Data was collected from in-depth interviews with 113 experts
in 17 countries.
The analyses of the interviews revealed as many as 52
different commercial and 35 self-developed LMS systems.

5. 2006: E-learning quality in European SMEs
Project coordinator: Vanda Vieira, CECOA in Lisboa
The laughing project Seven e-learning advantages were pointed out
in the case descriptions:
1. Improved flexibility in time and location
2. Reduced costs for travel, accommodation and seminar
rooms
3. Swifter and cheaper distribution of learning material
4. Quicker introduction of new products due to accelerated
training of many employees
5. Increased sales because customers perceive e-learning
as a sign of high competence
6. Increased sales because e-learning could add value to
the product
7. Improved relations with customers and suppliers

6. 2007: Megatrends in E-learning
We studied Uab and 25 other European megaproviders of e-learning

7. 2008: The first EDEN conference blog in Lisbon
• The EDEN conference was held in Belém
with UAb
• António Teixeira deserves credit for the
conference success
• 529 delegates, 42 countries
• Web 2.0 and social media were hot topics
• The first EDEN conference blog
http://edenconference08.blogspot.com/

8. 2009: EDEN Open Classroom on Twitter in Porto
• Organized with UAb and University of Porto
• Twitter #edenporto09
Top trending hashtag in Portugal, due to the
work of Paulo Simões
• First EDEN conference with a Facebook
page

9. 2010: A transparent course on an open stage at MPeL
It was interesting, but work intensive, to follow the students' work because they
were published in several different web2.0 services. They created personal
learning environments (PLE) outside the University’s LMS. Something that can
be both challenging and threatening for teachers and educational institutions.
It was thought-provoking that everyone could observe what students produced
in the course. Neither teachers nor students are always doing good work, and
in such transparent environments low quality work is easy to spot.
However, maybe we therefore struggle a little harder to do our best?

10. 2012: EDEN on YouTube in Porto
My YouTube interview
Workshop hosted by e-learning Gurus Portugal.
Facebook group started in 2009 with1,500 members

11. My Portuguese
Online Education
World
E-learning experiences
with UAb, conferences
and projects in Portugal
Thank you
Slides available at
www.slideshare.net/MortenFP/
A chronicle of personal anecdotes, experiences and reflections on people,
events, technology and pedagogy that influenced four decades of my online
education work.
www.nooa.no/my-online-education-world/