ONL 191 Topic 5 – Group 12It is time to review what I learned and what Group 12 created for each of the four previous topics. In our group discussion, we collectively agreed that the three biggest challenges we encountered were:Getting comfortable with…

ONL 191 Topic 4The discussion these past two weeks focuses on three concepts – online learning, blended learning, and the educational Community of Inquiry, commonly abbreviated CoI. The first, online learning, is easy – it is the use of technology to p…

ONL 191 Topic 3In my two roles of being a Professional and a PhD Student, an important part of my learning derives from my personal learning network through cooperation, coordination and collaboration with other people. Interacting with an expert by jo…

ONL 191 Topic 2The metaphor of the house – do we keep our doors and windows open or do we lock them? Who do we invite in? Who do we keep out? What are we willing to share? How do we share? These are all questions that each of us faces as we engage in o…

ONL 191 Topic 1Reflections on Digital Literacy and Online Participation.My journey into the world of online communities started with a dial up modem and bulletin board system (BBS) communities and chat forums on CompuServe, Prodigy, and AOL. As the Int…

Online learning communities need to communicate and today I am going to invite the reader on a short tour of some of the important findings that our Group and our ONL 191 community have uncovered in our journey so far. Research into what contributes to…

Open learning presents a myriad of implications for both institutions and educators, which were investigated and mapped by ONL191 Group 12 in the Coggle diagram below.Coggle DiagramFrom the scenario:I’m interested in opening up some of my courses and s…

Advances in web technology increasingly enable the classroom in terms of creating a more interesting and engaging environment. The challenge is how to take a product “off-the-shelf” and turn into something that both instructors and students like to use…

Ready for a new day at ONL191 where our group will be discussing different ways to presents content.

This week’s discussions focused on how we, as a society, perceive web literacy. A short recap is in order to help understand my thoughts on this…An older view of looking at online technology literacy compares “natives” – those who grew up with techno…

This is my first post for ONL191 and my first foray into the world of Blogging… Nothing better to incentivize oneself than to seek further knowledge, which is why I enrolled in ONL191. I am an institutional learner from Stockholm University here in S…