Aalto University, Finland – Page 17 – Open Networked Learning

Diversity and Motivation in Collaborative Learning

Posted on November 17, 2019 by Susan Gamache

Collaborative learning is an integral part of university teachers’ work, but also one of the 21st century working life skills that we are trying to teach our students. However, as we all know some learning communities work better than others. While this topic was really interesting and there would be so much to say, I […]

Where, how, what, and with whom will you learn today?

Posted on November 12, 2019 by Heli Dahlin

Dear Reader, Our third topic on our ONL-course was Learning in Communities – networked collaborative learning. In other words, this topic is also the embodiment of our work in action during this course. While investigating this topic, I have thus also spent a lot of time navel-gazing and trying to observe our working methods fromContinue reading “Where, how, what, and with whom will you learn today?”

Learning together – for real?

Posted on November 11, 2019 by Marja Elonheimo

When talking about collaborative learning and communities I just cannot think of any better examples than team sports. In addition, singing in a choir or playing some instrument in an orchestra or a band are alike to playing team sports because you have a group of people who are complementing each other. I have hadContinue reading “Learning together – for real?”

I’m all for open education, so why is it so difficult to make my own courses open?

Posted on November 1, 2019 by Susan Gamache

Picture by opensource.com Open educational resources (OER) are “teaching, learning, and research resources that, through permissions granted by the copyright holder, allow others to use, distribute, keep, or make changes to them.” (BCcampus Open Education Self-Publishing Guide). In principle, I support opening education and can immediately think about the various benefits that it offers. However, […]

Openness in education

Posted on October 31, 2019 by Marja Elonheimo

During the last weeks we have been thinking, talking and investigating the topic of Open learning – sharing and openness in our course and PBL group. The concept of sharing and being open has been quite natural to me. At least at my everyday work with my colleagues. Me and my colleagues are used to […]

Topic 2: Openness and sharing – do these keys really unlock that door?

Posted on October 30, 2019 by Heli Dahlin

Dear reader, The second topic of our intensive ONL-course began with the Padlet exercise and discussion (https://padlet.com/alacre/ONL192T2; embedded below), where Kay Oddone and Alastair Creelman had posted a video on openness in education for us to watch (https://play.lnu.se/media/t/0_o3kepcds). The video was captivating, and I was very curious to learn more about the possibilities of openness […]

Becoming more open?

Posted on October 28, 2019 by Hanna Liisa Hakala

The suggested themes for reflection in Blog 2 encompassed very wide areas (what openness means for your own practice, how to find and use openly licensed resources, advantages and disadvantages of open and closed technologies, implications of different open course and MOOC formats in relation to your learning experience on this course) of which I […]

ONL192 Learning Blog 1

Posted on October 14, 2019 by Hanna Liisa Hakala

The first two weeks working on Topic 1: Online participation and digital literacies have been very busy but interesting! I have started to reflect on myself as an individual in this digital age and what has characterized my journey so far. In the webinar on digital literacies on Tue 1 October with David White and […]

My digital journey: past, present and future

Posted on October 11, 2019 by Susan Gamache

My fellow teachers have often asked me why I am so keen on designing and teaching online courses. To me it’s about flexibility, access, inclusion and 21st century working life skills. After all, digitalization is what allowed me to complete my master’s degree fully online while having a full time lecturer position at the university, […]

Cyber me

Posted on October 11, 2019 by Marja Elonheimo

In our ONL group, we have discussed a lot about the mutual feeling we seem to have: none of us is really comfortable with writing blogs or sharing personal thoughts or ideas with the unknown audience of the cyber world. We started to think that what is behind that uncomfortable feeling and how could we […]

Boundaries & engagement

Posted on October 9, 2019 by Heli Dahlin

Dear reader, It is almost a norm today to be digitally literate, or, at least, to aspire to be such. This is my view of the matter, at least, and I cannot seem to decide whether for me it is a dystopian view and a destructive norm to be resisted, or simply a natural consequence […]

Connecting week: collaborating with new people

Posted on September 30, 2019 by Susan Gamache

Starting to work with a new group of people is always exciting: you never know what is going to happen as people with different backgrounds, personalities and preferences for working are put together. When this work is put to an online environment, it can be even more challenging, especially if you haven’t even met all […]