This is a series of blog posts about my learning activities in the
Open Networked Learning (ONL202) pedagogical course.

TL;DR
Blended (in-class + online) learning opens up a new set of oportunities to engage and motivate the students. Students…

When delving into this Topic 3 it became quickly apparent that there are many terms that are often used interchangeably. Yet a closer look at the definitions revealed decisive differences such as between “network” and “community” as explained by Kay Oddone in her YouTube video PLNs Theory and Practice. It is also advisable to makeContinue reading “Learning in communities – making it a fun-tastic experience”

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…

This is a series of blog posts about my learning activities in the
Open Networked Learning (ONL202) pedagogical course.

TL;DR

Collaborative x network learning
There is a great challenge in current higher education in achieving collaborativ…

As Topic 2 “Open learning – Sharing and Openness” comes to an end I remain with a certain feeling of dissatisfaction. Per se, this is not a bad thing when you are the student in a course. It might indicate that you got hungry for more knowledge. And indeed, I feel we haven’t covered theContinue reading “Open learning – Pondering and Confusion”

This is a series of blog posts about my learning activities in the
Open Networked Learning (ONL202) pedagogical course.

TL;DR
Open education is key in providing accessibility to learning. There are many online tools and local oportunities to s…

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…

I’m used to seeing myself as quite a digitally literate person. This is partly due to me having been the youngest one in quite many contexts in my life: in my childhood family, and when studying in university as well as among my colleagues in the beginning of my teaching career. I was playing with […]

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…

This is a series of blog posts about my learning activities in the
Open Networked Learning (ONL202) pedagogical course.
We are living in an exciting era with high demand for teaching digitalization. I hope that my posts will bring useful information f…