I am clearly in favour of a completely open education. Open access to literature, open educational resources, no tuition fees, open educational practice, open pedagogics and completely inclusive to all learners irrespective of their functional diversity or socio-economic status. Yes, I know that this is impossible, but that is my dream. I am not thatContinue reading “I have a dream”

The second topic in the ONL-course was about openness. Which led us to investigate Massive Open Online Courses and Open Educational Resources. At the start of this topic I started looking at the recommended literature and saw the TED-talk Open education and the future by David Wiley. He is a strong advocate for openness and … Fortsätt läsa My thoughts on openness and pedagogy

I started my work to understand these concepts at a fairly philosophical and existential level. Identity could be a concept on this level. What is my identity? Do I have the same identity online as offline? Do I have the same identity when I meet students as when I meet colleagues? Do I have the […]

The first topic in ONL was Online participation & digital literacies. The scenario was about a person who where about to participate in an online course. The person was nervous about writing publicly online in a professional manner. I think it was positive that we got to process a subject that was highly relevent to … Fortsätt läsa Me as a digital citizen

In the classic text: Power, technology and the phenomenology of conventions: on being allergic to onions. Susan Lee Star shows how it is more difficult for MacDonald’s NOT to put onions on a burger than to do so. Standardization is to give preference to certain actions at the expense of others. For those who are … Continue reading Digital literacy and power →

Knowledge is to sort, select, and discard. Therefore, what is included and excluded is always a matter of power. How does it affect what we see as digital literacy (and not)?

This is a reflection on Topic one: literacies to survive and thrive in the digital age (aka my so-called digital presence and my everyday experience of the messy entanglements of digital and analogue practices) Let me briefly present an ordinary morning in my life: 07:52 My day starts (I sleep in as my kids are … Continue reading Where is my flying car? →

The last week I have connected with my PBL group. It was really nice to meet and see who where part of my group. I think we have a good diversity in various professions. For the connecting week I was the topic leader. I had to coordinate our group presentation to share with the community. … Fortsätt läsa Connecting week

Today is tuesday 17 september 2019 – the second day of the first ONL week! It has been raining heavily since this morning, and now it is all wet and cold outside. But still I am happy to be starting this course. So at this point I have done most of what is mandatory this … Fortsätt läsa First week – Getting started with ONL

I am on a never ending journey to be better supporting student learning.