In the first week of this course we were told that this would be an unpredictable adventure and that we would need to ‘trust the process’. While I didn’t understand it at the time, looking back I can agree that this was good advice! A major lesson I learned is that trusting the process doesn’tContinue reading “Trusting the process”

Zoom’s catchphrase is ‘we deliver happiness’ because sustainable happiness comes from making other people happy (Zoom Video Communications, 2021). Some of us may laugh at this because Zoom has certainly given us headaches alongside this so-called happiness! How many times have we said some version of this in the last two years – ‘can youContinue reading “The times they are a-changin’ – So we must change with them”

Things are really moving full steam ahead in #ONL world now! Actually, things are moving so fast that the topic 3 train has come and gone, but it was an exciting couple of weeks as I was one of the facilitators for ‘Learning in Communities – networked collaborative learning’. Our group, PBL10, reflected on howContinue reading “The long road to collaboration”

According to the Oxford Dictionary (2021), the definition of ‘open’ is “allowing things or people to go through; not closed or blocked”. Easy enough, in theory… But when it comes to Open Learning and Open Educational Resources/Practices, well that’s another story! There are many benefits to open education and learning systems, such as improving opportunitiesContinue reading “Keeping an open mind with Open Learning”

It has been very interesting to reflect upon various digital concepts during Topic 1. As someone born in the late-80’s I feel stuck somewhere between being a digital native (someone who grew up with the internet) and an immigrant (someone who did not) as defined by Prensky (2001) and elaborated upon in the course materialContinue reading “The (Digital) Wild West”