Dear readers, I wish to share some miscellaneous thought related to the PBL group work wit Topic 2. Myself, as a visitor in the digital world, have again experienced quite tough times when trying to get a grip of the many new concepts and things. Openness, sharing, Creative Commons, among many others, have opened step … Continue reading Miscellaneous thoughts about Topic 2

Topic 1 dealt with digital literacies. A whole bunch of new, at least new for me, concepts were introduced and explained. The sense of being totally lost did diminish gradually, but did not disappear. This brave new world seems to be much more complicated as it seemed to be previously. Talks about meems, remixing, putting … Continue reading Heikki and a little bit more about the work with Topic 1

Dear readers, we all started the ONL201 -course with high hopes and expectations that something new would be coming. Well, this really happened. But most probably not in the way that we expected. The corona has changed our lives, maybe for more than we can see at the moment. Older Finnish people who can still … Continue reading First blog-text related to PBL Group 3 and Topic 1

The challenge with the synthwave genre is the question if it really improves the original sound, which despite its flaws continues to make grab people, and if it contributes to something new to our understanding of music? This is pretty much how I look at something like ONL and online problem-based learning in the landscape (discourse) of learning.

“Oh dear…” My first feeling after having tried to make sense of all the different instructions, overviews, videos, blogs, vlogs, platforms, assignments, teachers, co-teachers, learners, co-learners, open learners, groups, subgroups, zoom-meetings, doodles, google-drives, learning spaces, twitter sessions, editable powerpoints, creditable study points, rules of engagement, forms of consent, and amount of time spent. I couldContinue reading “The unbearable weightiness of being a learner”

Robert does Open Network Learning My name is Robert and I am an assistant professor at Hanken School of Economics. I do research on digital marketing with a focus on customer experience and customer engagement. I got my MSc and PhD at Maastricht University in the Netherlands where I got quite some hands-on experience withContinue reading “My First Blog Post”

I am attending a pedagogical course in Open and Network Learning. This will be interesting. This is the first post on my new blog. I’m just getting this new blog going, so stay tuned for more. Subscribe below to get notified when I post new updates.

Dear reader,

I’m Heikki Paakkonen and I work at Arcada University of Applied Sciences, Helsinki Finland.

I think the main merit of participating in the course actually has been to take part in a structured online course entity, and through that becoming familiar with tools that can be useful when having to structure and run online and blended learning courses in the future. As this will be expected from us byContinue reading “Topic 5”

This topic got off to to a slow start for me, as I was on exchange at a partner university during the first week, thus missing out on the meeting held then, and thus finding it difficult to allocate time to contribute much during that week. Additionally, our group had by now shrunk to threeContinue reading “Topic 4”