Dna Ndla

[Jamey Saldana]

Itis now time to register for the 2024 NDLA Annual Conference in Bismarck! Clicking on www.ndla.info/events will let you read more about the conference and register. Make sure to check out the pre-conference workshop information, as well as information on our keynote speakers. Take some time right now to make sure your membership is in good standing and fill out the conference registration so you do not miss all the events in Bismarck from October 2nd through the 4th.

Applications are open for the NDLA Conference Scholarship (formerly the Grassroots Grant)! New this year: eligibility has been opened up to all NDLA members, not just new members or those attending the conference for the first time. Please read the details below, consider applying, and share widely!

Fill out the application form at this link. The application form asks for contact information, a current resume/CV, and a short essay on how conference attendance would benefit you and your career. Applications open in early July each summer and close 3 weeks before the early bird registration deadline for the Fall Conference.

Norwegian Digital Learning Arena (NDLA) (Norwegian: Nasjonal digital lringsarena) is a joint county enterprise offering open digital learning assets for upper secondary education. In addition to being a compilation of open educational resources (OER), NDLA provides a range of other online tools for sharing and cooperation. The legal liability for the joint county programme is carried by Vestland County Council.

NDLA does not take on its own employees, but manages co-workers within the county resource system, as well as co-workers from private sector.Core activities are organised in teams: Subject material development, technical development, applications management, content management, NDLA interactive, and desk support.[1]

In 2006 The Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research allocated NOK 50 mill for the development of digital learning resources for subjects in secondary education. Among the targets was the intention to enhance the access to and use of digital learning resources in secondary education, and increase the volume and the variety of such resources.[2] Increased volume and diversity were seen as significant conditions for the introduction of free learning material in upper secondary education. The incentive was an amendment imposing the counties to provide free educational material, in print as well as digital, including digital hardware.[3]

Most of the available NDLA material is licensed by Creative Commons license and is free to use. All the material is noted with competence aims based on the official data from the Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training. By the start of academic year 2014 teaching material within the following subjects and subject areas are available:

NDLA cooperates with Khan Academy for translation and organising pages, Norwegian subtitles of videos, Norwegian framework and Norwegian tasks.[13] In addition NDLA has cooperation with the PhET project at the University of Colorado, providing simulations in HTML5 as well as translation and organising of the two forms of Norwegian.[14]

NDLA was developed in the publishing system Drupal 6. The solution was initially created by the developing group Utdanning.no,[15] but further development and operation now lies with the Cerpus group. The core code of the system is open source software;[16] open for anyone aiming to develop digital learning resources. In 2018 NDLA relaunched on a new technological platform.

In 2011 NDLA was nominated for European Public Service Award (EPSA).[17] The prize is awarded annually within the EU/EEC area, the ambition is to develop and improve solutions within public and civil administration. NDLA was candidate for the prize with the entry: NDLA Innovation in Acquisition, Development and Distribution of Digital Learning Resources. A total of 274 initiatives were evaluated, and 15 candidates were shortlisted for the prize.[18]

In 2014 NDLA won the Boldic Award for its open and innovative web repository at ndla.no.[19] In the jury statement, it was pointed out that NDLA's project strategy and solutions can be scalable across the Nordic and Baltic countries, and that NDLA provides a unique way of working together to promote distance learning and ICT-supported flexible lifelong learning.

The NDLA learning resources are continually evaluated by independent third parties. An external users' study from 2013 revealed that NDLA was mostly used as supplement to a traditional textbook, and the use was largely managed by the teacher. Students pointed out e-lectures and differentiated tasks as most useful. Both teachers and students emphasized the value of the possibility to differentiate material and tasks designed for students with varying learning capability.[20]

By publicly inviting tenders NDLA searches the market for digital learning resources to cover the competence aims of the different subject areas. NDLA asks for production services, developing groups of digital learning material, for either parts of, or prospective total solutions for a complete curriculum.

The responsibility for the editorial work, organising, meta-tagging, and putting together the material in the respective subject areas lies with competent editing groups recruited from upper secondary schools in the counties. The contents of each site are quality controlled by academy and university expertise, or otherwise specialists in that particular field. All the core material is published in the two forms of Norwegian.

When the demand is not met by the supply, the editing groups will produce their own material. The publishing companies are invited to collaborate in every round of purchase, and are free to make an offer of their material that will benefit their interests.

In 2010 NDLA was indicted by the Norwegian Publishers' Association before the European Surveillance Authority (ESA). The publishers claimed that the state funding of more than NOK 150 mill did not comply with the international regulation of financial state support, and represented an obstacle to the establishing of a free market for digital learning resources.[23]

The indictment was initially rejected by the EFTA Surveillance Authority on 12 October 2011,[24][25] but in December 2012 the dismissal was set aside by the EFTA Court after an appeal from the Publishers' Association. In March 2013 the EFTA Court announced a formal investigation of the funding of NDLA,[26] and ESA reopened the case. After a close examination ESA reached the same conclusion; the funding of NDLA is in compliance with the rules of state funding.[27]

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The Norwegian Digital Learning Arena (Nasjonal digital lringsarena) is a joint enterprise operating on behalf of the county councils in Norway. Its aim is to develop and publish high quality, internet-based open educational resources (OER) in subjects taught at upper secondary school level and make these freely available. The joint production and purchase enterprise was initiated by 18 counties in 2007 when the responsibility for the acquisition of learning content was delegated from the state to the county level. All counties except for Oslo are co-owners of NDLA, with Hordaland county as a formal judicial unit.

Since its inception, NDLA has been a pioneer regarding technology related to open educational resources. When the company that developed and created Flash-based interactive content, Amendor AS, started developing an alternative mobile-friendly content creation tool for interactive educational content, NDLA was fast to follow. Amendor formed Joubel in 2014, and the new company started the development of H5P (HTML5 package) with substantial contributions from NDLA. In 2022 Joubel changed its name to H5P Group.

When, in 2017-2018, NDLA migrated from their legacy Drupal platform to a more holistic architecture, the time and need for a service to integrate with and handle all aspects of H5P emerged. The resulting solution was Edlib.

Today, Edlib is integrated with NDLA's production environment making it possible to search and reuse existing H5Ps or to create new ones entirely. NDLA takes an active role in choosing the H5P libraries they want to support and has created several H5P libraries from scratch to meet their needs. NDLA also actively contributes by translating existing and new H5P content types available on the H5P GitHub.

A natural part of the production process of H5P-content is the creation of language variants of most H5Ps, as NDLA is obliged to provide their OERs in Norway's two official languages, Bokml and Nynorsk. This can be done as part of the workflow of creating a copy of an article for translation purposes or directly within Edlib itself. A plugin to ease the translation work does the heavy lifting by translating on-the-fly (using a third-party translation API) when a user chooses to create a Nynorsk variant of an existing Bokml H5P.

As part of the NDLA's work with languages and translations, they have dedicated translators working with only language-related tasks. This has led to the need for a separate "Script view" that is limited to only displaying the text inside the H5Ps, enabling the translators to focus on translating and improving language content. The "Script view" is beneficial to all of Edlib's users.

Users can access the videos within the API and are not allowed to upload files directly. A restriction on the use of YouTube and other links to provide video sources is also added to make sure all videos are handled within the API itself. Admins are alowed to access this URL field, in order to deal with special cases or remove previously added URLs:

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