Topic 5: Lessons learnt – future practice Those of you following this blog know that I have started this course because one of the requirements of my tenure track is to pursue pedagogy training. When I signed up back in February, little did I know that the whole education world would be forced online overContinue reading “ONL201: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Online Learning”

Topic 4: Design for online and blended learning I could relate to this topic quite a lot as I’ve been experimenting with online and blended learning designs for some years now. As an undergraduate student in Eastern Europe in the late-2000s, most of my courses were lecture and textbook based. Just to get an idea,Continue reading “Achieving the Right Blend Requires Experimentation”

In this blog series a chronicle the insights from Open Network Learning course by fusing insights with elements from pop culture. Last week of the course. Teaching will never be the same. Some events, when you look back, had such a profound impact on your teaching that it shattered the very foundations to an extentContinue reading “A Week of Profound Insights”

Dear members of ONL201 and other readers of these blogs The expectations in advance were miscellaneous. I had not too much information about the contents and aims of the course. It was claimed that the beginning will be somehow stressful and even messy. And so it turned out to be, as well. But we survived … Continue reading End of the journey – the final summarizing of ONL201 course

Dear readers and participants of ONL201 course The last few weeks working with course topics 3 and 4 have been rather intensive. No time has been left for adequate reflection. The course is coming towards its end and I believe the despite of the every now and then appearing tiredness and frustration I have learned … Continue reading Reflections on Topics 3 and 4

Topic 3: Learning in communities – networked collaborative learning What I found particularly interesting when working on this topic was the difference between a learning community and a learning network as summarized by Kay Oddone in her YouTube presentations. I tried reflecting on my own experience with the two forms of online learning and cameContinue reading “Online Learning Networks VS. Communities”

Topic 2: Open Learning – Sharing and Openness If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. William Blake, circa 1793 Before starting to work on this topic I thought open education boils down to opening access to courses (i.e., making courses available to everyone, not justContinue reading “Opening up…”

Topic 1- Online Participation and Digital Literacies I have joined the ONL course because pedagogical training is a tenure track requirement at my school. Since I teach topics related to digital marketing to MsC and PhD students, I was intrigued by what this course has to offer. Just before starting my ONL journey, I finishedContinue reading “So what’s the story with this ONL course?”

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