Just two weeks to go until this term’s issue of Open Networked Learning, ONL171, leaves the stocks! There is still room for a few more open learners – register here! If you are affiliated with one of the organising institutions please check with the organisers at your institution (look here: Karolinska Institutet, Lund University, Linnaeus University, […]
Recovering lost time – no wait, lost?
Dear ONLers, We hope this final post finds you all well! Before moving into holiday season mode, we want to thank you for fantastic engagement in the course, for generous sharing and for laughs and kindness along the way! It’s been ten intense weeks and we know that for most participants, this course is simply […]
Welcome to concluding week: ONL – future perspectives
We hope you have found what you were searching for when you signed up for this course and that you will carry with you some of what you have accomplished into your future work. We also sincerely hope that you have had good fun on the way! The previous two weeks were all about the […]
Welcome to Topic 3: Learning in communities: networked collaborative learning
Halfway through the course, we hope you have enjoyed the ride so far and learnt a lot! Is 1+1=2 or is there more to it? The coming two weeks will be all about learning in communities, networking and collaboration. Most of us have experiences from group work, that for some reason hasn’t worked all that […]

Open Networked Learning ONL162 starts 26 September
The second ONL course of the year starts 26 September and you are welcome to register either as a member of the host institutions (see below) or as an open learner. This course is aimed at teachers, learning technologists, educational developers and course designers in higher education. It presents opportunities to explore a multitude of aspects […]
Summer’s up!
Dear friends, For Scandinavians, summer is very special due to the very uneven distribution of daylight and temperature during the four seasons. This time of year, the northernmost parts of Sweden, Norway and Finland have midnight sun – and during winter there will be a period when the sun never manages to rise above the […]
Final week of topic 1
Dear all, The first, confusing weeks of the course safely behind us, we hope you are starting to feel at home in this new environment! Certainly blogging seems to be off to an unusually good start – with commenting and discussions as an enjoyable spin-off. By now most participants in PBL groups have been in […]
Time to part company, or…?
Dear all ONLers, The course team would like to thank you all for these past few months’ toil and moil within the perimeter of the course – and for all the generosity in sharing, the jokes, the laughs and the kindness displayed! We know this course has been basically another set of ‘to-dos’ on everyone’s […]
Important information
Dear friends, Hope this message finds you all well! We just need to inform you that unfortunately, we have been forced to move the date for the Final webinar to November 23rd, at 13.00 CET. We really hope that you will be able to join despite this late change!! Also, we hope that you are […]
Autumn break!
Dear friends, A small reminder that topic 5 starts November 4th – which means that this topic runs over two weeks and gives us all some extra time to catch up – get a breather – and perhaps read some more. We wish you all a lovely autumn weekend! The ONL course team DEADLINES FOR […]
Welcome to Topic 3 – Collaborative learning & communities
Dear friends, We hope you are all well and that you are coming to terms with this new learning environment and feeling more and more comfortable! Topic 2 on Digital Literacy – or as we have seen, it is rather Literacies – seems to have given you ample opportunity to reflect on and identify how […]
Summer weather and autumn forecast
Dear friends, For Scandinavians, summer is very special due to the very uneven distribution of daylight and temperature during the four seasons. This time of year, the northernmost parts of Sweden, Norway and Finland have midnight sun – and during winter there will be a period when the sun never manages to rise above the […]