In this weeks ONL work I focused my investigation on Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and challenges in Higher Education … Mer

Where are my blogs? I thought I would start bloging like Dagny, the famous 106 years old Swedish lady. Or at least start to reflect, discuss and update. Instead I am finding myself as far away from blogs as I was before starting the course about ONL, meaning On-Line Learning. But I am really learningFortsätt läsa “Learning to swim in the water -thanks ONL-course coming to my rescue”

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Open Networked Learning (ONL) just started and the first topic is about online participation and digital literacies and we already got an excellent introduction to new concepts about digital citizens and the levels of engagements and exposure of someone in an online environment, thus the distinguish between resident and…

The topic about online participation and digital literacy introduced me in the subject “online learning”, the various digital tools and … Mer

In order to understand and describe who I am in the digital age, I need to go back in time, to the beginning of the digital age. It all started with electricity and then developed to disseminate information (1,2). Digital age can be defined as the information age, and started at the 1970´s, when computersFortsätt läsa “TOPIC 1: Online participation & Digital literacies”

I embarked on the digital sea in the early 90’s, with email, and exclusively on a professional basis (cancer research). I don´t remember exactly when the next steps happened, but they involved the switch from the Current Contents paper catalogs to the Silver Platter CD’s and then to the amazing PubMed online searches for scientificContinue reading “On digital footprints and tools”

Starting late – but with ambitions to last I have recently begun a pedagogical course in open networked learning. The aim is to equip teachers with tools to conduct open networked learning courses in the future. I feel I had over-planned and am not a good student. One explanation, but not excuse, is that asFortsätt läsa “Health to all – a corona time reflection”

How is “to learn” expressed in your language? In Swedish and Scandinavian languages, there is a reflexive component suggesting activity (att lära sig = “to learn/teach oneself”) that you find also in Russian and Slavic languages, but not in many of the other European languages. By contrast, “to get an education” and also “to obtainContinue reading “An old reflection”