Proportion of the reachable universe lost due to delay. Toby Ord: The Edges of Our Universe (2 Apr 2021). https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.01191Second topic of our course deals with openess. What does this mean in my own practice?Since establishing my o…

A course, a community, an approach
Proportion of the reachable universe lost due to delay. Toby Ord: The Edges of Our Universe (2 Apr 2021). https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.01191Second topic of our course deals with openess. What does this mean in my own practice?Since establishing my o…
“Ghosts by a black hole” (2021). A collaboration of my children, ages 7 and 5. Photograph © 2021 Esa Ruskeepää.I headed this first subject with Sebastian in our ONL211 peer group.We decided to focus on two points: how much of your personal life and/or …
How OPEN is Open Learning?
I have to admit that this topic didn’t really open up. In our own PBL group work we discussed about instructions, or steps, one needs to take in order to make an open course. Most of the two weeks our approach seemed quite chaotic but in the end the team ended up with good overall […]
Image by Iñaki del Olmo from Unsplash Open Educational Resources (OER) and Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have made it possible for several people to learn topics and subjects they would not otherwise have had access to. Furthermore, many MOOCs … Continue reading
Image by TheAndrasBarta from Pixabay I am a bit late on my Connecting Week post, which actually gives me an opportunity to reflect from afar on that week of introductions and on meeting my group members: I am blessed with … Continue reading
Image by TheAndrasBarta from Pixabay I am a bit late on my Connecting Week post, which actually gives me an opportunity to reflect from afar on that week of introductions and on meeting my group members: I am blessed with … Continue reading
It is about distress. I notice that the topics within the course are new to me and this leads to distress. My initial way of dealing with new, possibly difficult, topics is yes, distress. I feel that it is kind of strange that these topics are ne…
You all know the pain and the intensifying feeling of guilt of not getting started with a massive writing task aiming to produce something that you have never actually done before… Like trying to get the first lab report done … Continue reading
As an individual in the post COVID digital age, I could not help but access how my online engagement has been ever changing both in personal and institutional lives. For […]
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I was one of the topic leaders this week. As a topic leader, I took a deeper dive into digital literacies than I have before and learned a lot by delegating tasks and discussing with others. I think of myself as quite digital literate person in this digital age and it has a lot to […]