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Learning Open Education Resources by doing…and through mistakes

First, let’s talk about some risks of openness…. Leraning by doing is a good approach, as they say. However, sometimes, this involves making mistakes along the way. When it comes to issues like using open resources, some caution should be taken. I learned this through my research project once, in a not-so-nice way: During theFortsätt läsa “Learning Open Education Resources by doing…and through mistakes”

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Open Learning – Sharing and Openness So far I have felt overloaded and stressed, but gradually I learn more to handle all “technical” things around, so it takes less time, which gives me more time to really do the course readings, even if I read the wrong chapter 10 in Bates (should have been 11…) […]

Topic 2 – Openness and sharing in higher education

What does openness mean to me? Concerning research, openness is important to reach as many readers as possible. It may however sometimes be challenging considering costs for open access and ethical issues related to data sharing. Concerning teaching, I have so far not shared my lectures online with open access. However, this course has given […]

Openness in Education

I watched the movie on openness and sharing in education. I found this presentation extremely interesting and I recognised myself and others in these questions ! What means a closed/open door ? Who is left outside ? Who should be able to access the higher education learning space ? If I think about the question […]

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Learning reflections So what did I learn during the first weeks in Topic 1? Be patient! As a beginner it has taken a lot of time only to understand where on the web sites I’ll find the right information for the subjects.. Now i’m getting to understand better. The PBL method is almost like what […]

The Change

Since I started the Open Networked Learning (ONL) course a lot has happened. First, however, I must tell the history of how I became an ONL student. Learning has always been fun to me and, as I have learned, sharing any accumulated knowledge with others seemed not only exciting but also fair. I saw the […]

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Digital Literacy: visitor vs resident

Hi everybody! White & Le Cornu presentations make me enter a new world. What is to be a visitor or a resident? I decided to google a bit more about “digital literacy” and I found this very interesting article. You can read more following the link below , but here is what I extracted from […]

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My feeling after 3 weeks in the ONL community!!!

Entering the digital world that way is new for me and is still a real challenge. I mainly teach medical school students and PhD students in the lab and I was confused at the beginning: « how to use these tools in my teaching space? » « are they relevant in my work? » « Would that bring something interesting […]

Introduce Yourself (Example Post)

This is an example post, originally published as part of Blogging University. Enroll in one of our ten programs, and start your blog right. You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click the […]

First week of ONL course

Today, I participated in the first online webinar for the ONL course. Exciting to learn that there are course participants from across the world, with a large variety of professional backgrounds. Previous experiences of online teaching and learning in the group seem to vary greatly. Lars Uhlin talked about PBL. The core of the learning […]