When I started the ONL course it was with mixed emotions, because I did not know what to expect from the course and neither did I know what was expected from me. I felt a bit overwhelmed as I was now moving out of my comfort zone and being introduced to all these new digitalContinue reading “My experience with ONL 192”

How is Learning in Communities defined? According to Riel & Fulton (2001: 519),.” A community of practice is a group of people who share a common interest in a topic or area as well as a particular way of talking about the phenomena, tools, and sense-making approaches for building their collaborative knowledge with a setContinue reading “Learning in Communities”

When reading up on the topic “Openness in Learning”, I found that there were so many resources available for both the student and the lecturer. John, Thavavel, Jayaraj, Muthukumar and Jeevanandam  (2016) so aptly defines the topic that open education is teaching and learning material that can be  used and shared by anyone without cost.Continue reading “Open Education”

When I searched for the definition for Digital Literacy, I was spoilt for choice with the information I got, but the one I found that describes this new technological lingo is in Education Week by Heitin (2016)who defines  digital literacy as “the ability to use information and communication technologies to find, evaluate, create, and communicate information, […]