Institution: NKI Nettstudier

Address: Box 111, 1319 Bekkestua

City: Oslo

Country: Norway

Contact email: torstein.rekkedal@nki.no

Institution website: http://www.nki.no

Own website: http://home.nki.no/torstein

Membership type: institutional contact

Membership starting date: 1997.01.16

Conference attendances: 

Krakow 1991, Berlin 1993, Tallinn 1994, Oslo 1995, Budapest 1997, Prague 2000, Stockholm 2001, Oldenburg 2004, Lisbon 2008, Paris 2008, Gdansk 2009, Valencia 2010, Budapest 2010

EDEN book presence: 

Online students

Eurodl presence: 

Support Services in E-Learning - an Evaluation Study of Students

NAP SC Member: 1995-2002, 2005-2008

Eurodl Board Member: yes

EDEN Fellowship: Senior Fellow

Conference Committee member: 

2009 Gdansk, 2008 Lisbon, 2007 Naples, 2006 Vienna, 2000 Prague

Position, Work experience: 

Senior Researcher, NKI Nettstudier 2011-

Director of Research and Development, NKI Nettstudier 1974-2011.

Professor, Norwegian School of Information Technology  2003-present.

Research fellow NKI 1972-1974.

Research Assistant, University of Oslo, 1970-1971

Member and chair of the EADL Research & Develpment Committee 1978-1991.

Vice-chair and chair of the ICDE Reseqrch Committee 1982-1988.

Member and chair of the Standing Committee for Quality of the Norwegian Association for distance Education 1992-2008.

Member of the Board of Norway Opening Universities, 1998-present.

External visiting expert at the University of Maryland University College/University of Oldenburg, Master of Distance Education Programme, 2008-present.

Education and training, degres, academic qualifications: 

Honorary Doctor of the British Open University 2003. Cand. paed. from the University of Oslo, Institute of Educational Research, 1972. Specialization in Adult Education, Programme Development, Course and Curriculum Planning. Thesis: Recruitment, Achievements and Completion in Correspondence Education.

Adjunct Professor at Athabasca University, Centre for Distance Education, 1999-2002 and 2003-2005.

Roll of Honour from the European Association of Distance Learning 2000, Prize of Excellence for Lifelong Contribution to the Field of Open and Distance Education 2001.

Area of expertise and field of interest (general): Assessment and evaluation, Counselling

Area of expertise and field of interest (education and training): Andragogy, Pedagogy, Teaching & Learning Development, E-learning, Lifelong learning, Adult Learning, Open and Distance Education/Learning, Course design and development, Quality Concepts and Management, Student Motivation and Retention, Tutoring/Mentoring

Projects: 

Participation in European Projects:

• e-teacher 2.0 (2010-2012)
• The role of mobile learning in European education (2006-2008)
• Megatrends in e-learning (2005-2007)
• M-learning: Incorporating mobile learning into mainstream education and training (2005-2007)
• ELQ-SME’s: E-learning Quality for SME’s, Guidance and Counselling (2005-2007)
• Mobile Learning: The Next Generation of Learning (2003-2005)
  
• Delphi: Analyses of European e-learning projects (2003-2004). See also the Delphi Observatory
• Student support services in e-learning (2002-2003)
• Web-edu: A Study of Learning Management Systems for Online Education. (2001-2002)
• M-learning: From e-learning to m-learning (2001-2002)
• Mediaweb: Multimedia Courseware On the World Wide Web (1999-2000)
• CISAER: Courses on the Internet: Survey, Analysis, Evaluation, Recommendation (1999-2000)
• MMWWWK: Multimedia WWW Kernel For Distance Learning (1998-1999)

Publications, articles, papers, studies: 

See Home page: http://home.nki.no/torstein