David Appel

meeting 8 March 10-11am CET

Posted on March 7, 2019 by David AppelLeave a Comment

Hi everyone, We are meeting tomorrow from 10-11am CET in Zoom room https://kau-se.zoom.us/j/4862085605. Bengt will lead the meeting, but we still need a volunteer notetaker. Please have a look at the spreadsheet and fill in your names for the dates you think you can lead/take notes. Hafizah’s notes from last meeting as well as the […]

Essentials from Open Networked Learning 2018

Posted on December 4, 2018 by David Appel

More than two months ago, I wrote a post entitled Fresh start with a nice view: I was about to reactivate my old blog while I still enjoyed my last autumn vacation day in Italy. I remember being slightly stressed … Continue reading →

Learning in communities

Posted on November 13, 2018 by David Appel

The abundance of information we are confronted with in the digital age, the diminishing half-life of knowledge and the new possibilities to connect, communicate and collaborate have an impact on what we need to know and how we learn. While … Continue reading →

Open Learning – Sharing and Openness

Posted on October 28, 2018 by David Appel

In my function as learning technologist I support academic staff of the department of Social Work using education technology. Although many of our teachers are inquisitive and open to new innovative teaching methods, social work practitioners are rather sceptical towards … Continue reading →

Online participation & digital literacies

Posted on October 17, 2018 by David Appel

Open Networked Learning has started for real. Over the last two weeks our Problem Based Learning Group 5 (PBL5) has been discussing the first topic of the course, “Online participation & digital literacies”. We have launched into the subject with two … Continue reading →

Sharing and openness

Posted on October 12, 2018 by David Appel

What does the term ‘open scholar’ actually mean? It seems that the traditionally scholar has undergone a transformation with the rise of digital and networked technologies. These technologies have brought about opportunities for researching, collecting, categorizing and managing information as … Continue reading →

Connecting

Posted on September 28, 2018 by David Appel

After checking out the course infrastructure and setting up my blog last week, Open Networked Learning took off for real this week. I attended a ZOOM meeting where the ONL facilitators presented themselves, gave a overview on the course and … Continue reading →

Fresh start with a nice view

Posted on September 21, 2018 by David Appel

This week the Online Networked Learning Course ONL181 has started an so I am reactivating this blog. It has been a while since I have posted something here and I have to say it looks quite bleak. I will have … Continue reading →