Dear members of ONL201 and other readers of these blogs The expectations in advance were miscellaneous. I had not too much information about the contents and aims of the course. It was claimed that the beginning will be somehow stressful and even messy. And so it turned out to be, as well. But we survived … Continue reading End of the journey – the final summarizing of ONL201 course

Dear readers and participants of ONL201 course The last few weeks working with course topics 3 and 4 have been rather intensive. No time has been left for adequate reflection. The course is coming towards its end and I believe the despite of the every now and then appearing tiredness and frustration I have learned … Continue reading Reflections on Topics 3 and 4

Dear readers, I wish to share some miscellaneous thought related to the PBL group work wit Topic 2. Myself, as a visitor in the digital world, have again experienced quite tough times when trying to get a grip of the many new concepts and things. Openness, sharing, Creative Commons, among many others, have opened step … Continue reading Miscellaneous thoughts about Topic 2

Topic 1 dealt with digital literacies. A whole bunch of new, at least new for me, concepts were introduced and explained. The sense of being totally lost did diminish gradually, but did not disappear. This brave new world seems to be much more complicated as it seemed to be previously. Talks about meems, remixing, putting … Continue reading Heikki and a little bit more about the work with Topic 1

Dear readers, we all started the ONL201 -course with high hopes and expectations that something new would be coming. Well, this really happened. But most probably not in the way that we expected. The corona has changed our lives, maybe for more than we can see at the moment. Older Finnish people who can still … Continue reading First blog-text related to PBL Group 3 and Topic 1

Dear reader,

I’m Heikki Paakkonen and I work at Arcada University of Applied Sciences, Helsinki Finland.