About the Author 

Morten Flate Paulsen 

http://home.nettskolen.nki.no/~morten/

Doctor of Education, Pennsylvania State University 

Master of Science in Engineering, Norwegian Institute of Technology 

Director of Development, The NKI Internet College 

Adjunct Professor, Centre for Distance Education, Athabasca University 

Morten Flate Paulsen has worked with online education since 1986. He 

designed the EKKO computer conferencing system for distance education and established the 

NKI Internet College

 in 1987. This college was probably the first European online college, 

and few (if any) online colleges in the world has been longer in continuos operation. 

He was the founder of The Distance Education Online Symposium (DEOS), when he worked 

with the American Center for the Study of Distance Education at The Pennsylvania State 

University. He was the founding editor of DEOSNEWS and the first moderator of DEOS L. 

DEOS is not only the oldest on line source of information, ideas, and discussions on the 

subject of distance education but is consistently referred to as one of the most highly regarded, 

indeed probably the most highly regarded of such sources. Numbers alone do not tell the 

whole story, and it is impossible to say, from an analysis of "hits" just how many people read 

the various items on DEOS and DEOS L, but there are in excess of 4600 subscribers in over 

80 different countries. 

Paulsen has headed the development of the Specialization Program in International Online 

Education (

www.nettskolen.com/spice)

. The program comprises five three credit courses 

about online education delivered internationally via the Internet.  

He has taken part in the following EU funded projects: 

Mediaweb

: Multimedia Courseware On the World Wide Web Working 

CISAER

: Courses on the Internet: Survey, Analysis, Evaluation, Recommendation 

MMWWWK

: Multimedia WWW Kernel For Distance Learning  

Paulsen s dissertation is on "Pedagogical Techniques for Computer mediated 

Communication". This research included a survey of 150 online teachers in 30 countries. 

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