“If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.” – Henry Ford Collaborative Learning is one of those buzz words not only in education but also in what some media calls millennial jobs. With the expansion of digital economies and access to high-speed internet, now it is possible to learn or workContinue reading “Learning in communities – networked collaborative learning”

Initially the theme of this topic seemed a bit off to me, and I found it hard to see the relevance. However, discussing the concept of collaborative learning proved very valuable, and having thought about this and related it to cooperative activities has actually proved useful already. Though I still don’t think that we shouldContinue reading “Topic 3”

I have been thinking on learning and teaching much lately. Our topic 3: Learning in communities – networked collaborative learning – is, I must admit, a little bit out of my comfort zone, even if I had good learning experiences using collaborative learning. I believe it is a little bit out of my comfort zoneContinue reading “Topic 3 – Learning in communities – Networked Collaborative Learning”

Digital tools for teaching and learning are almost a need in the contemporaneous classroom. Education is in superficiem, a communication process, therefore its ontology is strongly influenced by the technological evolution of the media [1]. The inclusion of new technologies in the teaching process has motivated that high profile educational institutions to create online coursesContinue reading “Open Learning — Sharing and Openness”

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Fascinating two weeks, and much learning has taken place around Open Educational Practices (OEP) and Open Educational Resources (OER) ! The introduction to openness in education by Kay Oddone (Queensland University of Technology, Australia) and Alastair Creelman (Linnaeus University, Sweden) gave me so many new insights and I needed to…

Sharing & Openness in Learning I think I learned a lot during topic 2 weeks, even if I was mulitasking at work =).  I think I managed. Very interesting this topic 2 – Sharing and Openness in Learing – as well as the first topic of the ONL-course. I find one could work with ONL-tasksContinue reading “Topic 2 – Sharing and Openness”

In relation to this topic, when we discussed what “open” really means, I came across an article by Sören Jonsson in my local paper, “Finland celebrates 10 years of open data” (2019), that I find has a bearing also on the concept of openness in education. In the article, open data is defined as “publicContinue reading “Topic 2”

I finally get around to reflecting on the first topic of the course. Well, in truth, I have reflected on the topic all along, but simply haven’t gotten around to write anything down until now. We had really interesting discussions in our PBL group, and I enjoyed collaborating through Zoom, Coggle, Padlet and Google Docs.Continue reading “Topic 1”