I think the most important issues that I learned concerned the ethics of open online learning. All these discussion took place in our lively ONL group 12. The ethical questions we discussed were multiple: how to protect student and faculty from cyberbu…

When you enter a new course like ONL you come with the expectation that the teaching materials will offer you new pedagogical approaches and ideas. Topic 4 on the course concerned design for online and blended learning. One of the keynotes as well as k…

I have been lucky to have worked in a community of practice (Wenger, 2011) when I was a PhD student and young post-doctoral researcher. It was fantastic to be engaged in collective learning in developing our departmental practices, teaching and researc…

The advantages of open online learning are more than well-rehearsed on this course, but I feel that the disadvantages are hinted about but not openly addressed in the teaching materials like the lectures, videos and articles. Openly discussing the pros…

Discourses represent the world from a particular perspectives and shape how we can talk about a topic, for example digital literacy, and what kind of meaning we attach to the phenomenon. Discourses, thus, influence the way we construct our identities i…