Topic 5: Lessons learnt – future practice Those of you following this blog know that I have started this course because one of the requirements of my tenure track is to pursue pedagogy training. When I signed up back in February, little did I know that the whole education world would be forced online overContinue reading “ONL201: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Online Learning”

Topic 4: Design for online and blended learning I could relate to this topic quite a lot as I’ve been experimenting with online and blended learning designs for some years now. As an undergraduate student in Eastern Europe in the late-2000s, most of my courses were lecture and textbook based. Just to get an idea,Continue reading “Achieving the Right Blend Requires Experimentation”

Topic 3: Learning in communities – networked collaborative learning What I found particularly interesting when working on this topic was the difference between a learning community and a learning network as summarized by Kay Oddone in her YouTube presentations. I tried reflecting on my own experience with the two forms of online learning and cameContinue reading “Online Learning Networks VS. Communities”

Topic 2: Open Learning – Sharing and Openness If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. William Blake, circa 1793 Before starting to work on this topic I thought open education boils down to opening access to courses (i.e., making courses available to everyone, not justContinue reading “Opening up…”

Topic 1- Online Participation and Digital Literacies I have joined the ONL course because pedagogical training is a tenure track requirement at my school. Since I teach topics related to digital marketing to MsC and PhD students, I was intrigued by what this course has to offer. Just before starting my ONL journey, I finishedContinue reading “So what’s the story with this ONL course?”

Robert does Open Network Learning My name is Robert and I am an assistant professor at Hanken School of Economics. I do research on digital marketing with a focus on customer experience and customer engagement. I got my MSc and PhD at Maastricht University in the Netherlands where I got quite some hands-on experience withContinue reading “My First Blog Post”