This blog has been inspired by Kay Oddones (2022) webinar on personal learning networks (PLN). I remember someone wise saying that learning only happens when you share it with someone. According to Davis White (20229 Visitors and Residents continuum Networked Learning is at the residents end of the continuum. This makes me reflect where I […]

Driving to northern Finland for holiday with my daughter. She’s playing with my phone, reading what me and my friends have been posting in one of my Whatsapp-groups, laughing at our “middle-age ways” of writing. Soon she´s writing in my group and making a joke about writing the way she would with her friends, finding […]

If you as an educator wish to use open education resources (OERs) for your own needs, you can find plenty of useful OERs online. The jungle of information is huge, but when getting used to searching you can find open materials in almost every field of education. For tips on how to find and use […]

For me there is a long way to go to become digitally literate. It’s probably not even possible when listening to David White’s Youtube clip “Visitors and Residents” where he is citing Mark Prensky’s theory saying “If you are young enough to have grown up with digital technology – you are native to it”. I […]

Openness is a noble word. This topic is indeed very actual not least due to the two years Covid-19 isolation. This is a very complex topic, we seem to relate to it through our own (cultural background) lenses. What are the motivators of being open? What about the quality of open education? These are matters […]

The first topic in ONL course is about the digital world. I found a good definition to Digital Literacy by Paul Gilster who defined it as “the ability to both understand and use digitised information” (1997). This can be considered as an old definition but think how valid it still is. I started to think […]

The first topic in ONL course is about the digital world. I found a good definition to Digital Literacy by Paul Gilster who defined it as “the ability to both understand and use digitised information” (1997). This can be considered as an old definition but think how valid it still is. I started to think […]

Greetings from Finland! The first connecting weeks have been really interesting but also overwhelming in many ways. It´s cool to start this Problem Based Learning journey ? My background is within business and tourism, have been teaching already quite a while and currently working as a Program Director for International Business program. My areas of […]