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Lessons learned from ONL202

It was a great journey attending the ONL202 course, and being part of group 2, which was a very fantastic experience with amazing members. The ONL is an online course, teaching us how to go online in our education. Taking this course during the pandemic provided more motivation to us for learning and discussing different topics. I […]

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Smooth transition from classroom teaching to online teaching

Classroom teaching is the most common way of teaching that brings an environment to gather students physically in a classroom. There have been several strategies designed and developed to make such teaching methods more productive. These innovative teaching methods considered visualization, cooperative learning, inquiry-based instruction, differentiation, employing technologies, behavior management, and professional development [1]. Technological […]

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Open learning: fair or unfair?

When talking about open learning, one would assume making the material available online for everyone, anywhere at anytime. However, we are living in a world that still high percentage of people have no or limited access to Internet. Looking into the map above shows that in 2017, most of African countries had below 20% access […]

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Different angles of openness for open learning

Openness refers to transparency, which is usually seen as accessing to information freely. However, in practice, I think openness should be applied and seen in a wider perspective. Openness should be considered at two major levels, which are (i) content or information, and (ii) raw data. Openness in higher education and research requires higher level […]

Topic 1 – ONL

We have finished 4 meeting sessions discussing on Topic 1. I would like to acknowledge the moderator, the facilitator and all our group members for a great experience towards this journey. It was a great practice together, specially using Padlet for collaborative work. The first topic on “online participation & digital literacies” was very interesting […]